The Mosaic Company key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, The Mosaic Company had return on equity of 4.6% and a net margin of 4.5%. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2009May 2009 | 2010May 2010 | 2011May 2011 | 2012May 2012 | 2013May 2013 | 2014Dec 2014 | 2015Dec 2015 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 22.8% | 12.2% | 25.3% | 17.4% | 18.9% | 11.4% | 11.2% | 4.2% | −1.4% | 4.9% | −12.0% | 7.7% | 13.2% | 18.7% | 8.5% | 1.6% | 4.5% | −5.2% |
| Return on equity | 27.6% | 9.6% | 24.7% | 16.3% | 14.9% | 8.5% | 9.9% | 3.1% | −1.1% | 4.7% | −10.9% | 7.1% | 16.2% | 31.6% | 9.6% | 1.5% | 4.6% | −5.4% |
| Return on assets | — | 6.5% | 17.6% | 11.9% | 10.9% | 5.7% | 5.6% | 1.7% | −0.6% | 2.4% | −5.4% | 3.4% | 7.8% | 15.8% | 5.0% | 0.8% | 2.3% | −2.6% |
| Effective tax rate | 22.3% | 29.2% | 23.0% | 27.1% | 15.4% | 15.2% | 9.0% | −30.6% | — | 14.0% | — | — | 26.9% | 26.4% | 13.3% | 59.2% | 52.7% | — |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 3.1% | 5.3% | 3.7% | 3.7% | 4.3% | 4.2% | 4.1% | 4.2% | 4.1% | 3.6% | 4.0% | 4.3% | 3.5% | 2.6% | 3.7% | 4.5% | 4.4% | 4.2% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 3.8% | 80.8% | 3.6% | 6.2% | 22.6% | 37.2% | 38.5% | 129.3% | — | 8.2% | — | 11.4% | 6.4% | 5.5% | 30.2% | 154.8% | 51.9% | — |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $5.4bn of assets due within a year against $4.1bn of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities Not assessable from the reported split. Not assessable.
- More cash than debt $294m of cash against $4.8bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 42% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 32% to 42% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $444m of operating cash flow against $4.8bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Interest not separately reported. Not assessable.
Moat
Weak moat
How hard The Mosaic's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 10 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.
- Returns on capital 4 / 20
Cash operating profit has been a median 4.9% of total assets over 10 years.
- Pricing power 3 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 14.9%, moving by 6.7 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.
- Durability 1 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 7.0%; its worst year was -11.9%.
- Cash conversion 10 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 8 of 10 years, at a median 4.5% of revenue.
- Discipline 20 / 20
The diluted share count fell 16.8% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.3% of revenue.
AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.
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