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Compass Minerals International Inc
Compass Minerals International Inc (CMP) is listed on NYSE and classified in Other Industrial Metals & Mining, part of the Basic Materials sector. It is headquartered in Overland Park, United States and has 1,800 employees. The company is worth $881.6M and trades at 50.0x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 19.1x. Revenue was $1.24B in fiscal 2025, up 11.3% from the year before. It reported a net loss of $79.8M. The share price is 39.1% below its 52-week high of $34.50. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $19.84M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -54.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $354.02▼ -64.6%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $19.64 | $11.25 | $25.32 | $41.00 | $51.08 | $61.72 | $60.96 | $41.69 | $72.25 | $78.35 | $75.27 | $86.83 | $80.05 | $74.71 | $68.85 | $89.27 | $67.19 | $58.66 | |
| P/E | 20.2x | — | — | 101.3x | — | — | 33.9x | 34.6x | 21.9x | 57.8x | 16.4x | 16.0x | 13.5x | 20.6x | 28.2x | 15.5x | 19.8x | 13.7x | 12.2x |
| P/S | 2.0x | 0.7x | 0.4x | 0.9x | 1.4x | 1.5x | 2.1x | 1.9x | 1.3x | 1.8x | 2.3x | 2.3x | 2.3x | 2.4x | 2.6x | 2.1x | 2.7x | 2.3x | 0.0x |
| P/B | 4.2x | 3.5x | 1.5x | 2.0x | 6.3x | 5.8x | 5.5x | 4.0x | 2.7x | 3.6x | 3.7x | 4.0x | 4.5x | 4.8x | 4.9x | 5.1x | 8.4x | 9.8x | 0.0x |
| EPS | -$1.91 | -$4.99 | $0.25 | -$0.63 | -$5.49 | $1.82 | $1.76 | $1.90 | $1.25 | $4.79 | $4.69 | $6.44 | $3.88 | $2.65 | $4.45 | $4.51 | $4.92 | $4.81 | |
| Dividend yield | 2.72% | — | 1.33% | 2.37% | 1.46% | 4.52% | 4.67% | 4.72% | 6.91% | 3.99% | 3.55% | 3.51% | 2.76% | 2.72% | 2.65% | 2.61% | 1.75% | 2.11% | 2.28% |
| Payout | 57.16% | — | — | 240.00% | — | — | 158.24% | 163.64% | 151.58% | 230.40% | 58.04% | 56.29% | 37.27% | 56.19% | 74.72% | 40.45% | 34.59% | 28.86% | 27.86% |
| Profit margin | 7.86% | -6.42% | -18.44% | 0.87% | -1.69% | -16.21% | 6.28% | 5.60% | 6.00% | 3.13% | 14.30% | 14.49% | 16.99% | 11.58% | 9.44% | 13.48% | 14.09% | 17.02% | 13.66% |
| ROE | 17.05% | -34.09% | -65.10% | 2.02% | -7.96% | -62.34% | 16.45% | 11.74% | 12.22% | 6.20% | 22.69% | 24.89% | 33.34% | 23.60% | 17.66% | 33.36% | 43.30% | 73.46% | 247.29% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 19.1 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 20.2 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 9.8x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-19.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Companies of similar size in Basic Materials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KROKronos Worldwide Inc | $7.64 | — | 1.2x | 2.62% | -13.69% | $879.35M |
| MUXMcEwen Inc. | $14.90 | 12.5x | 1.3x | 0.00% | 13.54% | $890.13M |
| ASMAvino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd | $5.33 | 19.7x | 3.2x | 0.00% | 21.05% | $905.33M |
| VMETVersamet Royalties Corp | $8.46 | 25.6x | 2.3x | 0.00% | 12.17% | $920.7M |
| SGMLSigma Lithium Corp | $7.48 | — | 10.2x | 0.00% | -31.64% | $842.01M |
| NWPXNWPX Infrastructure, Inc. | $96.29 | 20.0x | 2.2x | 0.00% | 12.22% | $927.97M |