{"id":5308,"date":"2026-07-17T23:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/17\/jpmorgan-bullish-on-3m-ahead-of-earnings-cites-ai-demand\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:59:18","slug":"jpmorgan-bullish-on-3m-ahead-of-earnings-cites-ai-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/17\/jpmorgan-bullish-on-3m-ahead-of-earnings-cites-ai-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"JPMorgan Bullish on 3M Ahead of Earnings, Cites AI Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JPMorgan has upgraded 3M to &#8216;overweight&#8217; and raised its price target to $180 ahead of the company&#8217;s second-quarter earnings report, citing growing demand from AI and data centers. The bank anticipates that strength in semiconductor-related sales will offset weaknesses in consumer electronics and auto sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Analyst Chigusa Katoku noted that U.S. consumer resilience and 3M&#8217;s pricing power could further boost profit margins as inflation declines.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/18\/3m-earnings-jpmorgan-bullish-as-ai-demand-spreads.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JPMorgan has upgraded 3M to &#8216;overweight&#8217; and raised its price target to $180 ahead of the company&#8217;s second-quarter earnings report, citing growing demand from AI and data centers. The bank anticipates that strength in semiconductor-related sales will offset weaknesses in consumer electronics and auto sectors. Analyst Chigusa Katoku noted that U.S. consumer resilience and 3M&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108306019-1778624129986-gettyimages-2275885101-_75a3419_jgkilhym.jpeg?v=1778624245&amp;w=600&amp;h=300&amp;vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-technology"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108306019-1778624129986-gettyimages-2275885101-_75a3419_jgkilhym.jpeg?v=1778624245&amp;w=600&amp;h=300&amp;vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}