2021–2025 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $1.1B to $1.2B, increasing; diluted EPS -5.49 to -1.91, increasing. Diluted EPS was derived from net income and diluted weighted-average shares in 1 year where the direct tag was absent.
21
Median gross margin 19.6% over 10y, stable.
0
Median ROIC 4.5%, above the 12% hurdle in 0% of years.
0
Net debt/EBITDA 6.0x, interest coverage 0x.
24
Owner earnings changed trend unclear over up to the ten most recent annual observations.
Price vs. value if growth stopped today
A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.
Above value if growth stopped todayBelow value if growth stopped today
No price data
Not reported
Unavailable — insufficient owner-earnings data
Unavailable — insufficient growth-model data
$29.44
No price data
This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. The recent FY revenue series does not trigger the three-consecutive-declines flag.
Among the current top-score group, the median current price is 239% above the zero-growth estimate across 48 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.
Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF, BKNG.
Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
19 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
Compass Minerals International, Inc. booked $1.2B of revenue in FY2025 in the Materials sector and kept 15.3% of it as gross profit — a thin-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −6.4% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.
Across the filed record, revenue grew from $1.2B (FY2008) to $1.2B (FY2025) — about 0.4% a year compounded over 17 years.
It earned 2.0% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2025. Across the full 18-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was 7.4%. Over the v3 recent window (10 measurable filed years), median ROIC was 4.5%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 0/100.
The balance sheet carried $832M of total debt in FY2025. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 0/100.
Put together: Business Trend is the strongest of the five filters (44/100) and Returns on Capital the weakest (0/100), which is how CMP lands at 18/100 — a None moat.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
FY2007–FY2025 · 19 fiscal years, normalized from CMP’s SEC filings
Sales, as filed$1.2B FY2025Revenue kept after cost of goods15.3% FY2025Standard ROIC or separately labeled Operating ROICROIC 2.0% FY2025Cash an owner could take out−$46.3M FY2025
Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in CMP’s filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Flagship explainer
How Compass Minerals International, Inc. makes its money
Compass Minerals International, Inc.'s filing does not supply enough comparable lines for a truthful flow chart — here's what is filed:
Where Compass Minerals International, Inc.'s cash went
Compass Minerals International, Inc.’s filing does not supply enough provenance-matched cash-flow lines for a truthful flow chart — here’s what is filed:
Position size uses shares and filed value from each manager’s 13F. Portfolio weight uses the eligible long-share filing denominator. Changes compare only with the immediately preceding calendar quarter.
What Compass Minerals International, Inc. insiders reported
Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Aug 11, 2026.
Partial coverage: the incomplete Form 4 walk cannot establish no activity, an activity date, or zero counts.
Moat Score history
16 logged readings since Jul 17, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten
Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale17.7 / 100
Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Insider activity
Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”
These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.
This machine-readable surface covers SEC ownership filings from 2003; it does not represent earlier paper-era records.
Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Aug 11, 2026.
122 filings were skipped because the SEC primary document returned 404; the omission is disclosed and aggregates are withheld.
Trailing-12-month totals and the 90-day cluster result are withheld because this issuer walk is incomplete.
No reported Form 4 rows were captured for CMP; the incomplete walk cannot establish zero activity, zero counts, or a negative cluster result.
A filing source-event date will appear when a Form 4 row is captured.
Retrieved .
Track record
How Compass Minerals International, Inc.’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.
Point-in-time scores 2011–2025, one methodology version · reconstructed from filings on file each Dec 31 — never with hindsight
Point-in-time Moat Score (dot colored by tier)Indexed price (total-return (dividends reinvested))Rated Wide-moat that year
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored CMP on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The price path is a total-return (dividends reinvested) index built from the same data the forward returns use; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.
What followed, in the years it rated Wide
In the reconstructed history shown, CMP did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.
Materials context
#296 of 309 scored Materials companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Does Compass Minerals International, Inc. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores Compass Minerals International, Inc. (CMP) 17.7 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 44, pricing power 21, returns on capital 0, balance-sheet safety 0, capital allocation 24.
How has CMP's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 16 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 17.7 out of 100 (no moat). No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.
Scored from primary SEC filings via the public methodology. Educational only — not a recommendation to buy or sell CMP. See the disclaimer.