Compass Minerals International, Inc. (CMP)

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Compass Minerals International, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 9 warning events of 4 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2024-08-16); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, 2 times, the latest 2024-07-03); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2023-12-07); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 5 times, the latest 2024-08-09) (its current reports).

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Compass Minerals International, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.1 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025, up 1% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 26% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 6 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, Compass Minerals International, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 7.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 12% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-19 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, Compass Minerals International, Inc. lost about 34 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 13 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 85 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Compass Minerals International, Inc.'s standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 44% by size; a net margin of -6.4% ranks in the bottom 34%; revenue growth of -0% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 19% (its annual reports).

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Compass Minerals International, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Dowling, Edward C (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-01-22, 2.8 years (bottom 42% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 2.1 years (bottom 4%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (bottom 25%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Compass Minerals International, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $60 million against debt of $832 million leaves -50.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 7% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 10.3% of revenue (top 24%); a gross margin of 15.3% (bottom 26%) (its annual report).

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Compass Minerals International, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0% a year over the last three filed years against 1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 31% of its family); the newest year grew 11.3% (top 34%); capital spending grew -10.3% a year (bottom 25%) (its annual reports). Compass Minerals International, Inc. reported 4 product lines in fiscal 2025: Highway Deicing Salt at $643 million (52%), Consumer Industrial Salt at $380 million (31%), SOP at $219 million (18%), and 1 more; 3 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Compass Minerals International, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 17.5% above the $1.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 28% of its family); net income of $80 million against a prior three-year average of $72 million (top 44%); a net margin of -6.4% against -6.4% before (top 41%) (its annual reports).