---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001227654-25-000103"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMP"
cik: "0001227654"
company_name: "COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T06:08:54.250019+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Compass Minerals issues $650M 8.000% senior notes due 2030; redeems $350M of 6.750% notes due 2027

## Summary
- Issued $650M aggregate principal amount of 8.000% senior notes due 2030; interest payable Jan 1 and July 1 starting Jan 1, 2026.
- Used net proceeds to repay all outstanding credit facility borrowings and to redeem ~$350M of 6.750% notes due 2027.
- Credit agreement amendment fixes revolver at $325M; max first lien net leverage 2.75x (steps to 2.50x Dec 31, 2025); min interest coverage 1.50x.
- Notes are senior unsecured, rank equally with existing senior unsecured debt but subordinated to secured debt, including amended credit facility.
- Notes redeemable at make-whole premium before July 1, 2027; up to 40% may be redeemed at 108% with equity offering proceeds.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001227654-25-000103
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMP
- cik: 0001227654
- company_name: COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000122765425000103/0001227654-25-000103-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000122765425000103/cmp-20250616.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC incurred senior notes of $650,000,000 aggregate principal amount with Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as trustee at 8.000% per year maturing July 1, 2030.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $650,000,000 aggregate principal amount
  - Counterparty: Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as trustee
  - Rate: 8.000% per year
  - Maturity: July 1, 2030
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On June 16, 2025, Compass Minerals issued $650,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes. The Notes bear interest at a rate of 8.000% per year and mature on July 1, 2030.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000122765425000103/0001227654-25-000103-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.