Is the business good?
How good a business is MOS?
Mosaic Company (The) earns 0.51% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
0.51%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 8.5 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 0.89%
Operating margin · Agricultural Inputs median 11% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −0.22%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
- Gross margin
- 13%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 4.8% |
| FY2021 | 20% |
| FY2022 | 25% |
| FY2023 | 9.8% |
| FY2024 | 5.6% |
| FY2025 | 6.8% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 13%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 0.89%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 0.36%
- Free cash flow margin
- −3.9%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $12.4B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$489M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $45M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 0.51%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Agricultural Inputs
Ranks #6 of 7 by Smart Score