Company Analysis

Intrepid Potash, Inc (IPI)

NYSE: IPI · Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels) · Denver, CO · filing with the SEC since 2007
Grade4.2
◀ Past 3.6● Present 4.4▶ Future 4.8
1 est.

The grade of Intrepid Potash, Inc

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.2/10
◀ Past3.640% of the headline
● Present4.435% of the headline
▶ Future4.825% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.6/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
3.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

2 warning events since 2017; the latest 2020-07-30.

weight 45% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 23 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Intrepid Potash, Inc's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 2 times, the latest 2020-07-30) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+3.4% a year over 3 filed years; profitable in 1 of 3.

weight 33% of this tense · 34th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Intrepid Potash, Inc's 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $279 million in fiscal 2023 to $298 million in fiscal 2025, up 3.4% a year; it rose in 1 of 2 years; the deepest fall was 9% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 1 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span3.4%bottom 36% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 16% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 30% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak8.7%top 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.7% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 49th percentile among 15 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Intrepid Potash, Inc's diluted share count shrank about 0.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 20% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 17% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.4/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.4/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 2%: 2¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 22%: owes 22¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 54th percentile among 23 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Intrepid Potash, Inc earned about 2 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 9 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 22 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 2.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 24% of its family
  • return on equitytop 46% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 32% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
3.6/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 36% of 18 in its family; net margin 3.7%.

weight 33% of this tense · 36th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Intrepid Potash, Inc's standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $298 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 26% by size; a net margin of 3.7% ranks in the bottom 45%; revenue growth of 3.4% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the bottom 36% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$298Mbottom 26% of its family
  • net margin3.7%bottom 45% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth3.4%bottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
3.4/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 34% of 13 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2024.

weight 22% of this tense · 34th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Intrepid Potash, Inc's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Crutchfield, Kevin S (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-12-04, 1.9 years (bottom 19% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.7 years (bottom 42%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (bottom 39%; 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.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge9 in three years among 11 peoplebottom 39% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed3.7 yearsbottom 42% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record1.9 yearsbottom 19% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.8/1025% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

as filed
5.4/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 46% of 19 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 54th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Intrepid Potash, Inc's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $84 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 13.2% of its assets as net cash, top 37% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.6% of revenue (top 39%); a gross margin of 18.4% (bottom 38%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets13.2%top 37% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue8.6%top 39% of its family
  • gross margin18.4%bottom 38% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 43% of 19 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Intrepid Potash, Inc's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 3.4% a year over the last three filed years against 3.4% over all 3, speeding up (bottom 44% of its family); the newest year grew 17.1% (top 29%); capital spending grew -23.9% a year (bottom 14%) (its annual reports). Intrepid Potash, Inc reported 7 product lines in fiscal 2025: Trio at $144 million (48%), Potash at $115 million (39%), Salt at $12 million (4%), and 4 more; 4 of 7 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yearbottom 44% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth17.1%top 29% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-23.9%bottom 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
4.9/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

SI estimate 4.9/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 45% of this tense · 50th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 16 members with one.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
How it was reasoned
family median, 16 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Intrepid Potash, Inc's expectations vs reality is put at 4.9 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 16 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton IPI · research, not advice