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Compass Minerals International Inc. CMP

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.2B
▲ 11.3% YoY
$-79.8M
$128.0M
In brief

What this company does

Compass Minerals International, Inc. sells salt and plant nutrition products primarily in the U.S., Canada and the UK. As of September 30, 2025, the company employed 1,849 employees, of which 906 were located in the U.S., 761 in Canada and 182 in the UK. Its business is operated in two reportable segments, Salt and Plant Nutrition. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, the Salt segment accounted for approximately 82% of the company's total sales. In the UK, the company also operates a records management business using excavated areas of its Winsford salt mine, with one other location in London, England.

Written from the business description in COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 12 December 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 1.2B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.2 · Net income -0.1
0.50B1.00B-0.08B-0.16B2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−0.0%
+4.4%
+1.2%
+1.0%
−36.4%
−18.8%
−9.8%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +4.4% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
−6 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 2.0% · Net -6.4%
10%20%-5%-10%-15%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -29.0%
100%200%-20%-40%2008201120142017202020232025

Each USD of equity lost 29 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 128.0
80M160M-40M-80M2008201120142017202020232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 0.0 · Net buybacks —
40M80M2008201120142017202020232025

Total assetsUSD 1.5B
EquityUSD 234.1M
CashUSD 59.7M
Gross debtUSD 832.2M
Net debtUSD 772.5M
Current ratio2.15×

Net debt stands at 330% of equity.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B1.21.11.21.21.11.01.11.11.41.11.11.31.10.90.01.11.01.2
Operating income $B0.0−0.10.10.00.10.10.10.10.20.20.20.30.20.10.20.20.30.3
EBITDA $B0.1−0.00.20.20.20.20.30.20.30.30.30.40.30.20.30.30.3·
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.10.00.10.10.00.00.00.00.10.1
Net income $B−0.1−0.20.0−0.0−0.20.10.10.10.00.20.20.20.10.10.10.20.20.2
Free cash flow $B0.1−0.1−0.00.00.10.10.10.10.0−0.0−0.10.10.10.00.10.10.00.2
EPS, diluted $·−4.990.25−0.63−5.491.821.761.901.254.794.696.443.882.654.454.514.924.81
Dividend / sh $·0.300.600.60·2.882.882.882.882.782.642.402.181.981.801.561.421.34
Payout %−0−6237−99−53157161151228585637567540352928
ROE %−29.0−49.22.7−7.5−54.514.011.610.66.124.024.636.124.718.737.552.8114.0247.3

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures · 2 divergences in 69 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 16 of 19 fiscal years. 2 of those reconciliations are divergences — the figures exist but don't fit the formula this check expects; that isn't the same as an error. 7 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures2 divergent
ActivityMining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels)
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsSeptember 30
Data on record since2008

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