CMP

Compass Minerals International, Inc. ·NYSE·Materials
24.65 live · 2026-08-26 15:59

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -84.4
3.4%
Brown Bear Score
20.4%
Business Conviction Score
19.0%
Position Health Score
9.6%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +25.5% · range 16.54–33.51

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 8.4%
OCF / assets 13.0%
FCF / revenue 15.9%
Gross margin 17.2%
ROIC 1.2%
Forward P/E 19.2

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +180.3pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-12-07 after the close · consensus EPS -0.18

Q2 23 revenue: 207.60mQ2 23 net income: 39.90mQ2 23 EPS: 0.97Q3 23 revenue: 233.60mQ3 23 net income: -2.50mQ3 23 EPS: -0.06Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 341.70mQ4 23 net income: -75.10mQ4 23 EPS: -1.82Q1 24 revenue: 364.00mQ1 24 net income: -48.00mQ1 24 EPS: -1.16Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 202.90mQ2 24 net income: -43.60mQ2 24 EPS: -1.05Q3 24 revenue: 208.80mQ3 24 net income: -39.40mQ3 24 EPS: -0.95Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 307.20mQ4 24 net income: -23.60mQ4 24 EPS: -0.57Q1 25 revenue: 494.60mQ1 25 net income: -32.00mQ1 25 EPS: -0.77Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 214.60mQ2 25 net income: -17.00mQ2 25 EPS: -0.41Q3 25 revenue: 227.50mQ3 25 net income: -7.20mQ3 25 EPS: -0.17Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 396.10mQ4 25 net income: 18.60mQ4 25 EPS: 0.44Q1 26 revenue: 453.20mQ1 26 net income: 12.70mQ1 26 EPS: 0.30Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-1.82–0.97, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-03-31 453.20m -8.4% 12.70m 0.30 0.66 +4.1% 2026-05-07
2025-12-31 396.10m +28.9% 18.60m 0.44 0.43 +65.9% 2026-02-06
2025-09-30 (derived) 227.50m +9.0% -7.20m -0.17 -0.17 +25.7% 2025-12-12
2025-06-30 214.60m +5.8% -17.00m -0.41 2025-08-11

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Growing — shares issued
Diluted shares 42.4M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year +2.0%
Change over 3 years +3.0%
Public float $318.89m as at 2025-03-31 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 24.28 — 24.90
Protective stop 21.71 (Atr, 11.7% risk)
Support 24.36 (2 touches, 1.2% away)
Resistance 25.85 (4.9% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 1.2% above 24.36, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 4.9% below 25.85, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 2 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 11.7% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice BELOW the cloud | periods 6/18/36 (69% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR (fresh down, 6d ago)
Cloud thickness22% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 26.59 to 26.84. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -17.0%
63 days -22.2%
126 days -0.8%
252 days +24.5%
Below 252d high26.4%

Trend context

PositionBelow trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeFalling
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway The share price is below the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is drifting down. The gap between the two has been fairly steady. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width28.2% of price
Recent tightest20.3% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 23.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.39×
Band 22.95 — 30.50

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 28% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

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Position Health Business Conviction

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger MACD bullish crossover repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 RSI recovery above 50 +5.3 pts gap is improving · Improving rapidly
  3. Trigger 3 MACD histogram above zero 0.15 gap is improving · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 Positive 20-day momentum acceleration secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 Relative momentum leadership holds already satisfied Track 2 pathway: relative momentum leadership is already present; maintaining it supports upgrade pressure · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

no listed options chain

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Early Stock Rotation

Rotation health 83.9/100; Strong Rotation Tailwind.

Rotation health 83.9
Rotation strength 85.7
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 86.2 124.0
Stock vs SPY Improving 88.3 129.6
Sector vs SPY Leading 118.7 107.5

Direction of travel: North-East / strengthening leadership

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 4/9 (+3.0)
  • Altman Z-score 2.58 (+2.0)
  • FCF margin quality: 15.9% (+4.8)
  • ROIC improving by 9.5 pts (+2.0)
  • FCF margin improving by 14.6 pts (+2.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.183) (+3.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.13 -> -0.18) (+2.0)
  • Track 2: ADX 63.7 and rising (+18.0)
  • Track 2: relative momentum rank 0.67 (+5.8)
  • Track 2: RSI trend quality 44.7, 5-day change +11.5 (+9.1)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.22 (+1.8)

Negative signals

  • Underperforming sector over 20 days
  • Track 2: weak MACD histogram (-0.15)
  • Track 2: weak MACD line/signal structure (-12.0)
  • Track 2: negative MACD regime (-8.0)
  • Track 2: MACD slope deteriorating (-5.0)
  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.60x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 2: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.10)
  • Track 2: bearish DI spread (-11.5)
  • Track 2: price below EMA20 by 6.6%
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope deteriorating -3.7%
  • Track 2: weak VPT confirmation (-0.04)
  • Track 2: price below EMA50 by 11.1%
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope deteriorating -4.2%
  • Gross margin improving by -0.2 pts (+-1.0)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 17.8/100 below the 25 quality floor; this is an unowned speculative candidate, so the universal SELL gate was skipped and the Track 2 momentum/RRG grid was allowed to evaluate instead. Structural quality here is weak by design for this kind of candidate -- treat any resulting BUY as higher risk than a Track 1 signal.

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.