Compass Minerals International Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Compass Minerals International in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" Compass Minerals International stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CMP, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Compass Minerals International is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 3rd 2021.
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Compass Minerals International, Inc. (NYSE:CMP) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 12th. The basic materials company reported ($0.49) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.06) by $0.43. The basic materials company earned $199.40 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $191.23 million. Compass Minerals International had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.10% and a negative net margin of 10.26%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 13.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.04 EPS.
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Compass Minerals International's stock was trading at $43.15 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CMP shares have increased by 44.2% and is now trading at $62.24.
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Compass Minerals International announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 19th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.72 per share on Monday, September 20th. This represents a $2.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.63%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 9th.
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Compass Minerals International pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.76%. CMP has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. Compass Minerals International does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Compass Minerals International is 207.19%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on EPS estimates, Compass Minerals International will have a dividend payout ratio of 103.60% in the coming year. This indicates that Compass Minerals International may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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6 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Compass Minerals International's stock. Their forecasts range from $55.00 to $75.00. On average, they anticipate Compass Minerals International's share price to reach $63.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.5% from the stock's current price.
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46 employees have rated Compass Minerals International CEO Fran Malecha on Glassdoor.com. Fran Malecha has an approval rating of 2% among Compass Minerals International's employees. This puts Fran Malecha in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Some companies that are related to Compass Minerals International include Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Southern Copper (SCCO), Ferroglobe (GSM), Materion (MTRN), U.S. Silica (SLCA), SunCoke Energy (SXC), United States Antimony (UAMY), General Moly (GMO) and Revett Minerals (RVM).
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Compass Minerals International trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CMP."

Compass Minerals International's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (11.28%), Vanguard Group Inc. (10.08%), Van ECK Associates Corp (7.26%), State Street Corp (5.24%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.26%) and Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC (3.26%). Company insiders that own Compass Minerals International stock include Amy Yoder, George John Schuller Jr and James D Standen.
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CMP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Cove Street Capital LLC, Deprince Race & Zollo Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Russell Investments Group Ltd., and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Compass Minerals International company stock in the last year include Amy Yoder, and George John Schuller Jr.
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CMP stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Van ECK Associates Corp, Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC, Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Vanguard Group Inc., Millennium Management LLC, and Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC.
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One share of CMP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $62.24.

Compass Minerals International has a market capitalization of $2.12 billion and generates $1.37 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $-2,100,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $1.39 on an earnings per share basis.

Compass Minerals International employs 3,229 workers across the globe.

The official website for Compass Minerals International is www.compassminerals.com.

Compass Minerals International is headquartered at 9900 West 109th Street Suite 100, OVERLAND PARK KS, 66210.

Compass Minerals International's mailing address is 9900 West 109th Street Suite 100, OVERLAND PARK KS, 66210. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at (913) 344-9200 or via email at [email protected].