Is the business good?
How good a business is CMP?
Compass Minerals International, Inc. earns 10% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
10%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.4 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 9.3%
Operating margin · Other Industrial Metals & Mining median 19% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +2.0%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
- Gross margin
- 17%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2019 | 11% |
| FY2020 | 10% |
| FY2022 | 3.6% |
| FY2023 | 6.4% |
| FY2024 | −10% |
| FY2025 | 2.0% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 17%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 9.3%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 0.55%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.29B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $100M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $7.1M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 10%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Other Industrial Metals & Mining
Ranks #11 of 16 by Smart Score