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Compass Minerals

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Mineral company

Compass Minerals International, Inc is an American public company that, through its subsidiaries, is a leading producer of minerals, including salt, magnesium chloride and sulfate of potash. Based in Overland Park, Kansas; the company provides bulk treated and untreated highway deicing salt to customers in North America and the United Kingdom and plant nutrition products to growers worldwide.3 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 18, 2026.

Overview

$1.2BRevenue, fiscal 20255
-$79.8MNet income, fiscal 20255
2001Founded1

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  • TickerCMP on NYSE1
  • Industrymining industry1
  • HeadquartersOverland Park1
  • Websitewww.compassminerals.com
  • Incorporated inDE6
  • Business address9900 W. 109Th Street, Suite 100, Overland Park, Ks 662106
  • Filer categoryAccelerated filer6

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Compass Minerals International, Inc is an American public company that, through its subsidiaries, is a leading producer of minerals, including salt, magnesium chloride and sulfate of potash. Based in Overland Park, Kansas; the company provides bulk treated and untreated highway deicing salt to customers in North America and the United Kingdom and plant nutrition products to growers worldwide. Compass Minerals also produces consumer deicing and water conditioning products, consumer and commercial culinary salt, and other mineral-based products for consumer, agricultural and industrial applications. In addition, Compass Minerals provides records management services to businesses throughout the United Kingdom.3

Financials

From the company’s reports to the SEC. Every number links to the filing it came from.

Key numbers, fiscal 2025

15.3%Gross margin5
2.0%Operating margin5
-6.4%Net margin5
11.3%Revenue growth, 20255
-34.1%Return on equity5
3.55×Debt to equity5

What sells

Revenue by product, business segment and region, as the company reports it to the SEC.

Products and services

Highway Deicing Salt brought in 52% of the revenue Compass Minerals broke down this way in fiscal 2025.

  1. Highway Deicing Salt$642.7M552%up 18% from 2024
  2. Consumer & Industrial Salt$379.8M531%up 5% from 2024
  3. SOP$218.8M518%up 16% from 2024
  4. Product and Service, Other$2.6M50%down 56% from 2024
Products and services by year
Products and services202320242025
Highway Deicing Salt$641.7M$546.4M$642.7M
Consumer & Industrial Salt$369.1M$361.4M$379.8M
SOP$181.8M$189.0M$218.8M
Product and Service, Other$1.7M$5.9M$2.6M

Business segments

Salt brought in 83% of the revenue Compass Minerals broke down this way in fiscal 2025.

  1. Salt$1.0B583%up 13% from 2024
  2. Plant Nutrition$206.3M517%up 14% from 2024
Business segments by year
Business segments202320242025
Salt$1.0B$907.8M$1.0B
Plant Nutrition$172.1M$181.0M$206.3M

Regions

United States brought in 70% of the revenue Compass Minerals broke down this way in fiscal 2025.

  1. United States$875.3M570%up 6% from 2024
  2. CAMember$288.6M523%up 23% from 2024
  3. United Kingdom$65.9M55%up 30% from 2024
  4. Other Geographic Areas$14.1M51%up 101% from 2024
Regions by year
Regions202320242025
United States$860.4M$825.0M$875.3M
CAMember$269.7M$234.7M$288.6M
United Kingdom$66.1M$50.7M$65.9M
Other Geographic Areas$8.5M$7.0M$14.1M

Where the money goes

Where each dollar of revenue went, fiscal 2025

  • Selling, general and admin9¢$113.3M
  • Other costs89¢$1.1B
  • Income tax2¢$26.1M

Out of $1.2B in revenue.5 The company lost money this year.

Where each dollar of operating cash went, fiscal 2025

  • Kept or used elsewhere100¢$197.7M

Out of $197.7M of cash from operations.5

Financial statements

Revenue8910115$1.2B in 2025+15% since 2018
0$500.0M$1.0B$1.5B2018: $1.1B$1.1B20182019: $1.1B$1.1B2019+1%2020: $1.0B$1.0B2020−7%2021: $1.1B$1.1B2021+14%2022: $1.2B$1.2B2022+9%2023: $1.2B$1.2B2023−3%2024: $1.1B$1.1B2024−7%2025: $1.2B$1.2B2025+11%
Gross profit8910115$190.7M in 2025+4% since 2018
0$100.0M$200.0M$300.0M2018: $183.9M$183.9M20182019: $232.5M$232.5M2019+26%2020: $219.8M$219.8M2020−5%2021: $228.5M$228.5M2021+4%2022: $199.8M$199.8M2022−13%2023: $232.0M$232.0M2023+16%2024: $195.0M$195.0M2024−16%2025: $190.7M$190.7M2025−2%
Operating income8910115$25.3M in 2025−68% since 2018
-$200.0M-$100.0M0$100.0M$200.0M2018: $79.5M$79.5M20182019: $119.6M$119.6M2019+50%2020: $103.0M$103.0M2020−14%2021: $105.9M$105.9M2021+3%2022: $45.4M$45.4M2022−57%2023: $77.4M$77.4M2023+70%2024: -$116.8M-$116.8M20242025: $25.3M$25.3M2025
Net income8910115-$79.8M in 2025
-$300.0M-$200.0M-$100.0M0$100.0M2018: $64.8M$64.8M20182019: $60.8M$60.8M2019−6%2020: $63.1M$63.1M2020+4%2021: -$185.7M-$185.7M20212022: -$21.1M-$21.1M2022−89%2023: $10.5M$10.5M20232024: -$206.1M-$206.1M20242025: -$79.8M-$79.8M2025−61%

Every line of the income statement as filed: the last 3 fiscal years, latest first.5

Period ending2025-09-302024-09-302023-09-30
Sales$1.2B$1.1B$1.2B
Gross profit$190.7M$195.0M$232.0M
Selling, general and administrative expenses$113.3M$137.8M$150.2M
Loss on impairment of long-lived assets, definite and indefinite-lived intangible assets and goodwill$53.7M$191.0M$0
Other operating (income) expense-$1.6M-$17.0M$4.4M
Operating income (loss)$25.3M-$116.8M$77.4M
Interest income-$1.3M-$1.0M-$5.3M
Interest expense$68.5M$69.5M$55.5M
(Gain) loss on foreign exchange-$100.0K$700.0K$2.3M
Loss on extinguishment of debt$7.6M$0$0
Net loss in equity investees$0$0$3.1M
Gain from remeasurement of equity method investment$0$0-$10.1M
Other expense, net$4.3M$2.2M$4.3M
(Loss) income before income taxes-$53.7M-$188.2M$27.6M
Income tax expense$26.1M$17.9M$17.1M
Net (loss) income-$79.8M-$206.1M$10.5M
Basic net (loss) earnings from continuing operations per common share (in dollars per share)-$2-$5$0
Diluted net (loss) earnings from continuing operations per common share (in dollars per share)-$2-$5$0
Basic (in shares)41.8M shares41.3M shares40.8M shares
Diluted (in shares)41.8M shares41.3M shares40.8M shares

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Leadership

Who has led Compass Minerals, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive

  1. Michael E. Ducey2006
  2. Angelo C. Brisimitzakis2006–2012
  3. Francis Joseph Malecha2013–2018
  4. Richard S. Grant2018–2019
  5. Kevin S. Crutchfield2019–2024
  6. Edward C. Dowling2024–now

Chair

  1. Richard S. Grant2018–2019

President

  1. Michael E. Ducey2006
  2. Francis Joseph Malecha2017–2018
  3. Kevin S. Crutchfield2019–2024
  4. Edward C. Dowling2024–now

Chief financial officer

  1. Rodney L. Underdown2006–2014
  2. Matthew J. Foulston2014–2016
  3. John David Craft2016
  4. Patrick Douglas Linehan2017
  5. James D. Standen2017–2021
  6. Lorin Crenshaw2021–2023
  7. Jeffrey M. Cathey2024
  8. Peter Fjellman2025–now

Chief operating officer

  1. Brandon Risner2026–now
20052010201520202025
Board members and other officers (53)

Products and brands

  • magnesium chloride

Listed on Wikidata.1

Production methods and facilities

Underground salt mining

Underground salt mining produces rock salt using both drill-and-blast and continuous mining techniques in deep deposits. Compass Minerals is the largest rock salt producer in North America and the U.K. It operates underground salt mines at Goderich, Ontario, the largest salt mine in the world with an annual capacity of 9 million tons; Cote Blanche, Louisiana, with annual capacity of 3.4 million tons; and Winsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom, with annual capacity of 1.5 million tons.

Mechanical evaporation

Mechanical evaporation uses high-efficiency vacuum processes to produce high-purity, fine- and coarse-grained salt products for commercial, agricultural, and industrial applications. Compass Minerals is a leading producer of mechanically evaporated salt in North America. It operates mechanical evaporation salt facilities in Lyons, Kansas (annual capacity 450,000 tons), Unity, Saskatchewan (160,000 tons); Goderich, Ontario (130,000 tons); and Amherst, Nova Scotia (130,000 tons). Compass Minerals also operates an SOP evaporation facility at Wynyard, Saskatchewan, with annual capacity of 40,000 tons.

Solar evaporation

Solar evaporation is the oldest and most energy-efficient method of mineral production. At the Great Salt Lake near Ogden, Utah, Compass Minerals draws naturally occurring brine out of the lake into shallow ponds and allows solar evaporation to produce salt, sulfate of potash (SOP) and magnesium chloride. Its SOP plant at the Great Salt Lake is the largest in North America and one of only three SOP brine solar evaporation operations in the world. Annual capacity is 350,000 tons of SOP, 1.5 million tons of salt, and 750,000 tons of magnesium chloride. In 2022 Compass Minerals announced the intention to develop the capacity to extract over 11 kMT LCE (Lithium Carbonate Equivalent) yearly at the Great Salt Lake site. The project has since been put on pause due to regulatory changes.

Business segments

Compass Minerals operates two business segments, Salt and Plant Nutrition.

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Compass Minerals’ Salt Segment mines, produces, processes and distributes sodium chloride and magnesium chloride in North America and the U.K. The segment’s largest business is highway deicing, which primarily sells bulk rock salt to states, provinces, counties, municipalities and road maintenance contractors for ice control on public roadways. The highway deicing product line also includes flake and liquid magnesium chloride used for deicing and dust control; treated rock salt treated for deicing in very low temperatures; and rock salt for the chlor-alkali industry.

The salt segment also includes consumer and industrial product lines, which includes pure sodium chloride and blended products containing magnesium chloride, calcium chloride and potassium chloride for applications such as consumer and professional deicing, water conditioning, culinary salt, animal nutrition, swimming pool minerals, and industrial applications.

Compass Minerals’ Plant Nutrition Segment produces sulfate of potash fertilizer.

Compass Minerals’ domestic sales of SOP are concentrated in the Western and Southeastern U.S. and exports to Latin America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

In 2021, Compass Minerals divested the last segment of their plant micronutrient assets in an agreement with Koch Agronomic Services.

From Wikipedia’s article on Compass Minerals, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Former names

  • SALT HOLDINGS CORPApr 17, 2003 to Nov 5, 20036

Timeline

  1. Jan 22, 2024New chief executive Edward C. Dowling becomes CEO16
  2. May 7, 2019New chief executive Kevin S. Crutchfield becomes CEO17
  3. Nov 19, 2018New chief executive Richard S. Grant becomes CEO18
  4. Jan 22, 2013New chief executive Francis Joseph Malecha becomes CEO19
  5. May 15, 2006New chief executive Angelo C. Brisimitzakis becomes CEO21
  6. Jan 10, 2006New chief executive Michael E. Ducey becomes CEO20
  7. 2001Founded Founded1

Filings

535 filings to the SEC since October 2021: 6 annual reports, 16 quarterly reports, 83 major events, 342 insider forms, 35 large holders, 53 other. The latest 20:

  1. Oct 15, 20264 EDGAR
  2. Oct 15, 20268-K EDGAR
  3. Oct 1, 20264 EDGAR
  4. Oct 1, 20264 EDGAR
  5. Oct 1, 20264 EDGAR
  6. Sep 15, 20264 EDGAR
  7. Aug 27, 2026S-8 EDGAR
  8. Aug 14, 2026SCHEDULE 13G EDGAR
  9. Aug 13, 20263 EDGAR
  10. Aug 6, 202610-Q EDGAR
  11. Aug 5, 20268-K EDGAR
  12. Aug 5, 20268-K EDGAR
  13. Jul 29, 20264 EDGAR
  14. Jul 1, 20264 EDGAR
  15. Jul 1, 20264 EDGAR
  16. Jul 1, 20264 EDGAR
  17. Jun 29, 202611-K EDGAR
  18. Jun 26, 20264 EDGAR
  19. Jun 26, 2026SD EDGAR
  20. May 19, 20264 EDGAR

The 535 filings since October 2021 can be filtered by form type and year here when JavaScript is on.

Every filing from the last three years, summarized. The full record is on SEC EDGAR.

Insider trades and holders

Large holders

Investors who own more than 5% must tell the SEC: a 13D if they may seek to influence the company, a 13G if they hold passively. 35 such filings since October 2021, the latest 10:

  1. Aug 14, 2026SCHEDULE 13G
  2. May 12, 2026SCHEDULE 13G
  3. Apr 27, 2026SCHEDULE 13G/A
  4. Mar 26, 2026SCHEDULE 13G/A
  5. Feb 9, 2026SCHEDULE 13G
  6. Nov 18, 2025SCHEDULE 13G
  7. Nov 10, 2025SCHEDULE 13G
  8. Oct 30, 2025SCHEDULE 13G/A
  9. Aug 14, 2025SCHEDULE 13G/A
  10. Apr 28, 2025SCHEDULE 13G

From Forms 4 and Schedules 13D and 13G filed with the SEC.

Held by these funds

The largest holders among investment managers' 13F reports for the quarter ending Jun 30, 2026, the top 25 of 100. Change is in shares since the quarter before.

FundSharesValueShare of the fundChange
Koch, Inc.7,034,609$219.0M20.0%No change
SailingStone Capital Partners LLC3,351,366$104.3M19.5%−1,474,245
BlackRock, Inc.3,078,473$95.8M0.0%+225,710
State Street Corp2,441,899$76.0M0.0%+119,423
American Century Companies Inc2,273,578$70.8M0.0%+594,903
Vanguard Capital Management LLC1,775,518$55.3M0.0%+26,963
Irenic Capital Management LP1,068,378$33.3M2.4%−367,151
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP951,151$29.6M0.0%+37,468
Jacobs Levy Equity Management, Inc886,009$27.6M0.1%New
Gumshoe Capital Management LLC872,348$27.2M24.8%−392,535
Geode Capital Management, LLC841,419$26.2M0.0%+56,275
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC698,271$21.7M0.0%+126,843
Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc655,606$20.4M0.0%−48,832
Aqr Capital Management LLC637,339$19.8M0.0%+568,222
Engine Capital Management, LP633,021$19.7M1.9%−806,044
Newtyn Management, LLC632,326$19.7M2.5%−137,674
O'Keefe Stevens Advisory, Inc.631,272$19.7M4.0%+20,810
Lee Danner & Bass Inc580,750$18.1M1.0%−25,000
Federated Hermes, Inc.574,763$17.9M0.0%+36,134
Nuveen, LLC520,573$16.2M0.0%+230,908
Ewing Morris & Co. Investment Partners Ltd.570,800$14.8M7.7%−1,443,527
Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership474,512$14.8M0.0%+408,782
Morgan Stanley439,621$13.7M0.0%+89,784
Ameriprise Financial Inc437,294$13.6M0.0%+76,830
Hennessy Advisors Inc345,500$10.8M0.3%New

13F reports cover disclosed long positions in U.S. stocks only.

Members of Congress who traded it

8 trades disclosed by members of Congress. “Vs S&P since” is the stock’s change since the trade minus the S&P 500’s.

DateMemberTradeAmountVs S&P sinceFiling
Oct 11, 2023Kevin HernRepublican, HouseSale$1,001 - $15,000+96.1%Report
Nov 16, 2021Josh GottheimerDemocratic, HouseSale$1,001 - $15,000+125.4%Report
Jan 4, 2021Christopher L. Jacobs, HouseSale$1,001 - $15,000+173.3%Report
Jan 29, 2020Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.Democratic, HouseBuy$1,001 - $15,000−198.4%Report
Jan 10, 2020Josh GottheimerDemocratic, HouseBuy$1,001 - $15,000−198.8%Report
Dec 30, 2019Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.Democratic, HouseSale$1,001 - $15,000+203.9%Report
Dec 10, 2019Josh GottheimerDemocratic, HousePartial sale$1,001 - $15,000+206.5%Report
Jan 5, 2017Thomas R. SuozziDemocratic, HouseSale$15,001 - $50,000+312.9%Report

Members report amounts as ranges, not exact figures. Returns are price-only (no dividends).

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