Compass Minerals Intl Inc (CMP)

Compass Minerals Intl Inc is trading at $24.86, down 3.49% on the session. The 50 day average sits at $29.61 and the 200 day at $n/a, which puts the stock in a mixed technical position. RSI is at 37.8, which reads as weak, and MACD is bearish crossover. Volume is below average.

The nearest support is around $23.09 with resistance near $30.27, so that band frames the current range. Average daily movement is roughly $1.47, or about 5.9% of the share price, which is what any stop placement has to allow for. The overall health score of 26 out of 100 combines a trend score of 28, momentum of 23 and a risk score of 28.

Compass Minerals International, Inc. provides essential minerals in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Salt and Plant Nutrition. The Salt segment produces, markets, and sells sodium chloride and magnesium chloride, including rock salt, mechanically and solar evaporated salt, and brine and flake magnesium chloride products; and purchases and sells potassium chloride and calcium chloride to sell as finished products or to blend with sodium chloride to produce specialty products. This segment provides products for use as a deicer for roadways, consumer, and professional use; as an ingredient in chemical production; for water treatment, human, and animal nutrition; and for various other consumer and industrial uses, as well as records management services. The Plant Nutrition segment produces sulfate of potash specialty fertilizers in various grades that are used in broadcast spreaders, direct application, and liquid fertilizer solutions under the Protassium+ brand name; turf products used by the turf and ornamental markets, as well as for blends used on golf course greens; and organic products. This segment provides its products to distributors and retailers of crop inputs, as well as growers. The company was formerly known as Salt Holdings Corporation and changed its name to Compass Minerals International, Inc. in December 2003. Compass Minerals International, Inc. was founded in 1844 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.