Compass Minerals International Inc (NYSE:CMP) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price up by 0.53% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $9.56.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $9.51, falling within a range of $9.455 and $9.91. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.571. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $16.08, and the low was $7.51. On the whole, CMP has fluctuated by -12.61% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Compass Minerals International Inc currently standing at about $396.78 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-09.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 1.16B, with a low estimate of 386M and a high estimate of 438M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 413.82M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that CMP’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of CMP currently trading nearly -6.04% and -15.66% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 38.10, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.17% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.26%. Furthermore, Compass Minerals International Inc (CMP)’s beta value is 1.16, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.58.
A comparison of Compass Minerals International Inc (CMP) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CMP showed an intraday change of 0.53% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -30.17%%.
Data on historical trading for Compass Minerals International Inc (NYSE:CMP) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.57 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 595.50K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 41.47 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 18.90% of Compass Minerals International Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 78.48% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 2.3 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 3.66. According to the data, the short interest in Compass Minerals International Inc (CMP) stood at 930.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 2.06 million. The stock has fallen by -15.02% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CMP stock heading into the next quarter.
