Compass Minerals International, Inc.

NYSE:CMP Stock Report

Market Cap: US$618.0m

Compass Minerals International Valuation

Is CMP undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

3/6

Valuation Score 3/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Sales vs Peers

  • Price-To-Sales vs Industry

  • Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of CMP when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: Insufficient data to calculate CMP's fair value for valuation analysis.

Significantly Below Fair Value: Insufficient data to calculate CMP's fair value for valuation analysis.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for CMP?

Key metric: As CMP is unprofitable we use its Price-To-Sales Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Sales ratio for CMP. This is calculated by dividing CMP's market cap by their current revenue.
What is CMP's PS Ratio?
PS Ratio0.5x
SalesUS$1.14b
Market CapUS$618.01m

Price to Sales Ratio vs Peers

How does CMP's PS Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PS ratio for CMP vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PSEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average16.1x
GSM Ferroglobe
0.5x5.3%US$843.6m
NEXA Nexa Resources
0.4x0.004%US$1.0b
EUBG Entrepreneur Universe Bright Group
62.1xn/aUS$362.2m
MTRN Materion
1.4x6.4%US$2.3b
CMP Compass Minerals International
0.5x2.3%US$608.1m

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: CMP is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.5x) compared to the peer average (16.1x).


Price to Sales Ratio vs Industry

How does CMP's PS Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Metals and Mining Industry?

25 CompaniesPrice / SalesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
TX Ternium
0.4x2.7%US$6.59b
CLF Cleveland-Cliffs
0.3x4.1%US$5.65b
ARNC Arconic
0.4x5.8%US$3.01b
CSTM Constellium
0.2x9.3%US$1.69b
CMP 0.5xIndustry Avg. 1.3xNo. of Companies25PS0246810+
25 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Sales vs Industry: CMP is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.5x) compared to the US Metals and Mining industry average (1.3x).


Price to Sales Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is CMP's PS Ratio compared to its Fair PS Ratio? This is the expected PS Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

CMP PS Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PS Ratio0.5x
Fair PS Ratio0.8x

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: CMP is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.5x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.8x).


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst CMP forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUS$14.70
US$18.20
+23.8%
23.9%US$25.00US$13.00n/a5
Nov ’25US$12.05
US$17.80
+47.7%
24.5%US$25.00US$13.00n/a5
Oct ’25US$12.32
US$17.80
+44.5%
24.5%US$25.00US$13.00n/a5
Sep ’25US$8.83
US$18.00
+103.9%
23.3%US$25.00US$13.00n/a5
Aug ’25US$12.47
US$18.00
+44.3%
23.3%US$25.00US$13.00n/a5
Jul ’25US$10.06
US$18.00
+78.9%
23.3%US$25.00US$13.00n/a5
Jun ’25US$12.96
US$21.83
+68.5%
41.1%US$40.00US$13.00n/a6
May ’25US$12.15
US$23.43
+92.8%
31.4%US$40.00US$15.00n/a7
Apr ’25US$15.56
US$26.29
+68.9%
23.2%US$40.00US$20.00n/a7
Mar ’25US$23.57
US$30.00
+27.3%
27.9%US$48.00US$21.00n/a7
Feb ’25US$22.97
US$34.14
+48.6%
36.3%US$60.00US$24.00n/a7
Jan ’25US$25.32
US$38.86
+53.5%
41.6%US$75.00US$24.00n/a7
Dec ’24US$25.32
US$38.86
+53.5%
41.6%US$75.00US$24.00n/a7
Nov ’24US$25.27
US$51.43
+103.5%
31.7%US$82.00US$35.00US$12.057
Oct ’24US$27.95
US$52.14
+86.6%
30.0%US$82.00US$36.00US$12.327
Sep ’24US$30.63
US$52.14
+70.2%
30.0%US$82.00US$36.00US$8.837
Aug ’24US$38.75
US$53.29
+37.5%
28.1%US$82.00US$36.00US$12.477
Jul ’24US$34.00
US$53.57
+57.6%
28.1%US$82.00US$36.00US$10.067
Jun ’24US$31.71
US$53.57
+68.9%
28.1%US$82.00US$36.00US$12.967
May ’24US$32.46
US$55.57
+71.2%
24.3%US$81.00US$36.00US$12.157
Apr ’24US$34.29
US$55.57
+62.1%
24.3%US$81.00US$36.00US$15.567
Mar ’24US$39.05
US$56.00
+43.4%
23.7%US$81.00US$36.00US$23.577
Feb ’24US$45.67
US$62.00
+35.8%
27.1%US$81.00US$36.00US$22.977
Jan ’24US$41.00
US$62.00
+51.2%
27.1%US$81.00US$36.00US$25.327
Dec ’23US$43.82
US$62.00
+41.5%
27.1%US$81.00US$36.00US$25.327
Nov ’23US$40.02
US$61.71
+54.2%
28.0%US$81.00US$34.00US$25.277

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price, but analysts are not within a statistically confident range of agreement.


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