Compass Minerals Sources Salts Of The Earth

Today I’m reviewing a mid-cap industrial metals and minerals firm named Compass Minerals International, Inc. It’s trading ticker symbol is CMP. 

Compass Minerals International Inc is associated with the mining industry. It produces minerals, including salt, sulfate of potash specialty fertilizer and magnesium chloride.

It serves customers in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. It operates in three segments: Salt, Plant Nutrition North America, and Plant Nutrition South America. 

The Salt segment provides products for use as a deicer for roadways, consumer, and professional use; as an ingredient in chemical production; for water treatment, human, and animal nutrition; and for various other consumer and industrial uses, as well as provides records management services.

The Plant Nutrition North America segment offers sulfate of potash specialty fertilizers in various grades. This segment provides its products to distributors and retailers of crop inputs, as well as growers.

The Plant Nutrition South America segment offers various specialty plant nutrients and supplements; water and wastewater treatment chemicals for cleaning, decontaminating, and purifying water; and process chemicals for industrial use.

The company was formerly known as Salt Holdings Corporation and changed its name to Compass Minerals International, Inc. in December 2003. Compass Minerals International, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.

I use three key data points to gauge the value of any dividend equity or fund like Compass Minerals International, Inc.: 

(1) Price

(2) Dividends

(3) Returns

Besides those three, four more keys  will finally unlock an equity or fund in which to invest.

But those first three primary keys, best tell whether a company has made, is making, and will make money. 

CMP Price

Compass’s price per share was $62.75 at yesterday’s market close. A year ago its price was $60.10 for a gain of $2.65 per share.