Compass Minerals International, Inc. (CMP)
Materials · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 19:31 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Compass Minerals International, Inc. trades at $21.71, which is 46% above the $11.74 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 9 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 183.4 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
CMP dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $0.150 | 1 |
| 2023 | $0.600 | 4 |
| 2022 | $0.600 | 4 |
| 2021 | $2.31 | 4 |
| 2020 | $2.88 | 4 |
| 2019 | $2.88 | 4 |
| 2018 | $2.88 | 4 |
| 2017 | $2.88 | 4 |
| 2016 | $2.78 | 4 |
| 2015 | $2.64 | 4 |
| 2014 | $2.40 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
CMP earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 4 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Compass Minerals International, Inc.
Compass Minerals International, Inc. provides essential minerals in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Salt and Plant Nutrition. The Salt segment produces, markets, and sells sodium chloride and magnesium chloride, including rock salt, mechanically and solar evaporated salt, and brine and flake magnesium chloride products; and purchases and sells potassium chloride and calcium chloride to sell as finished products or to blend with sodium chloride to produce specialty products. This segment provides products for use as a deicer for roadways, consumer, and professional use; as an ingredient in chemical production; for water treatment, human, and animal nutrition; and for various other consumer and industrial uses, as well as records management services. The Plant Nutrition segment produces sulfate of potash specialty fertilizers in various grades that are used in broadcast spreaders, direct application, and liquid fertilizer solutions under the Protassium+ brand name; turf products used by the turf and ornamental markets, as well as for blends used on golf course greens; and organic products. This segment provides its products to distributors and retailers of crop inputs, as well as growers. The company was formerly known as Salt Holdings Corporation and changed its name to Compass Minerals International, Inc. in December 2003. Compass Minerals International, Inc. was founded in 1844 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
Super investor ownership
9 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$19.84M · 0.0% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$14.77M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$5.52M · 0.0% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$5.12M · 0.0% of book
- Joel Greenblatt, Gotham Asset Management, LLC$2.09M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in CMP
We hold 6 disclosed trades in CMP by members of Congress and executive-branch officials. The latest 5:
- Christopher L. Jacobs · HouseSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 4 Jan 2021 · disclosed 17 Feb 2021
- Gilbert Cisneros · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 29 Jan 2020 · disclosed 18 Feb 2020
- Gilbert Cisneros · HouseSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 30 Dec 2019 · disclosed 10 Jan 2020
- Gilbert Cisneros · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 30 Jul 2019 · disclosed 19 Aug 2019
- Gary Palmer · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 6 Aug 2018 · disclosed 29 Sept 2018
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
CMP peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Other Industrial Metals & Mining), then in the same sector.
- BHP BHP Group Limited
- RTNTF Rio Tinto Group
- AGL.JO Anglo American plc
- TECK-B.TO Teck Resources Limited
- LYC.AX Lynas Rare Earths Limited
- ALM Almonty Industries Inc.
- SKE Skeena Resources Limited
- EMAT Evolution Metals & Technologies Corp.
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Common questions
Is Compass Minerals International, Inc. (CMP) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $11.74, CMP at $21.71 is 46% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own CMP?
9 of the institutions we track reported a position in CMP in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is CMP's P/E ratio?
CMP trades at 183.4 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Where does SteadyShares get its CMP data?
Fundamentals for CMP come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 19:31 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 92/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.