It's Tuesday January 26th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill with me today from the Great White North.

It's Jim Gillies.

Good to see you, my friend.

Good to be seen, Chris.

And yeah, it really is a Great white north this morning it's hard to see across the street from where I am

We're gonna talk about game stop today. We have a new partnership we're going to discuss, but we are going to start with

Minnesota mining and manufacturing, better known as 3M, which 3M is wrapping up the fiscal year in style. Fourth quarter profits came in higher than expected.

Shares are up 3 to 4 percent today. Although that makes shares of 3M flat for the past 12 months and considering they make

respirators and n95 masks among other things I kind of thought they'd be doing

better at this point. Well, so 3M, which is a long favorite company of mind just to kind of stake my, where I sit. I don't own it presently, unless you via index funds but 3M is more than just

N95 mass or other mass or things that will have profited from COVID in the pandemic.

They got something like 40 core technologies that they deploy into like tens of thousands of products so like there's

abrasives. One of my favorite examples is they have an adhesive's division and

see here if he adhesives well that that makes the the sticky stuff on the

back of the iconic Post-it note, right?

That's a product of their Adhesives Technology Division. But Adhesives also

produces certain products that are basically,

they're basically strong enough to meld parts together

that go into aircraft structures.

So it's the same basic core technology, but two very different and I'm always like well I hope they don't mix those two up

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