---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001227654-25-000196"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMP"
cik: "0001227654"
company_name: "COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:55:32.496123+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Compass Minerals reports FY2025 net loss $79.8M, guides FY2026 adj EBITDA $200-240M

## Summary
- Q4 net loss improved to $7.2M from $48.3M YoY; FY net loss narrowed to $79.8M from $206.1M.
- FY2025 adjusted EBITDA $198.8M, down 4% YoY; Salt segment adj EBITDA $219.2M, Plant Nutrition $34.9M.
- FY2026 guidance: total adj EBITDA $200-240M; Salt $225-255M, Plant Nutrition $31-36M, capex $90-110M.
- Reduced net debt 14% YoY to $772.5M; ended FY with $364.6M liquidity ($59.7M cash, $304.9M revolver).
- North American highway deicing inventory value and volumes down 33% and 36% YoY respectively.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001227654-25-000196
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMP
- cik: 0001227654
- company_name: COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000122765425000196/0001227654-25-000196-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000122765425000196/cmp-20251208.htm

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