MTXMinerals Technologies Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though margins compressing.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is MTX?
Minerals Technologies Inc. earns −1.1% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 10 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- −1.3%
Operating margin · Specialty Chemicals median 7.4% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −1.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- R&D as % of revenue
- 1.1%
R&D as % of revenue
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 12% |
| FY2021 | 13% |
| FY2022 | 10% |
| FY2023 | 7.9% |
| FY2024 | 14% |
| FY2025 | 2.3% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 25%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −1.3%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −3.1%
- Free cash flow margin
- 5.6%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 1.1%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.15B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $120M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$67M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −1.1%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Specialty Chemicals
Ranks #25 of 33 by RyuScore