CMP Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Compass Minerals Intl | NYSE:CMP)

Compass Minerals currently produces two primary products: salt and specialty potash fertilizer. The company's main assets include rock salt mines in Ontario, Louisiana, and the United Kingdom. The fertilizer is produced from a brine operation at the Great Salt Lake in Utah that produces sulfate of potash and magnesium chloride. Compass' salt products are used for deicing and also by industrial and consumer end markets. The firm's sulfate of potash is used by growers of high-value crops that are sensitive to standard potash.

Compass Minerals Intl trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol CMP.

As of February 6, 2026, CMP stock price was flat at $21.75 with 1,122,241 million shares trading.

CMP has a beta of 0.97, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CMP has a correlation of 0.07 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CMP has a market cap of $902.22 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Compass Minerals Intl reported $396 million in Revenue and $.43 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $64 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.23.

In the last 3 years, CMP traded as high as $46.18 and as low as $7.51.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that CMP belongs to (by Net Assets): XME, VTI, AVUV, IFRA, IWM.

CMP has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +84.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +15.1%. In the last 3 month period, CMP beat the market returning +31.5%, while SPY returned +3.3%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks CMP has underperformed the stock market by returning -14.9%, while SPY returned +0.2%.

CMP support price is $21.03 and resistance is $22.47 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CMP shares will trade within this expected range on the day.