Compass Minerals Shares Continue to Point North

The fertilizer play is alive and well. On 3-2-08 I stumbled across a salt and specialty fertilizer stock, Compass Minerals International (CMP). Since my call on theupdown.com, the stock is up 44.35%. No one could have known that fertilizer would run this long, and when I found the stock it was undervalued with respect to its peers (at least by my estimation). Potash companies are by far my favorite in the fertilizer space. Nitrogen margins are going to get tighter as natural gas continues to go higher, and phosphate's will do the same in the face of difficulty finding rock. Since potash is mined, I believe that they are less apt to see increases in costs then the other two.

CMP is not some small company but rather a group of businesses working in conjunction. They are the number one producer of sulfate of potash in North America. They are the number one North American and UK producer of highway de-icing. They are number two in North America with respect to production of salt. Also, they are the number one producer of magnesium chloride for use in de-icing.