Minerals Technologies Inc.

MTX Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

Minerals Technologies Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.1 billion, down 2.17% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+4.23%
EPS
+2.80%
Free cash flow
+19.0%
Total debt
−0.67%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

62.53 3.30 −5.01%
Market cap
$1.9B
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
−30.2×
Dividend yield
0.78%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
2.52
Beneish M
−2.73
Dividend safety
49/100

Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTX) Operating margin

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Minerals Technologies Inc.'s operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was −1.60%, down 3.9 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (2.29%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 2.29% (fiscal 2025) to 14.6% (fiscal 2017) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is below the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 5.64% and below the Basic Materials sector median of 2.88%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 2.29% (11.23)
FY2024 13.5% 5.60
FY2023 7.92% (2.19)
FY2022 10.1% (2.57)
FY2021 12.7% 0.90
FY2020 11.8% 0.13
FY2019 11.7% (2.51)
FY2018 14.2% (0.42)
FY2017 14.6% 0.91
FY2016 13.7% 2.53

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 11.7% 51.85
Jun 2026 −40.2% (50.90)
Mar 2026 10.7% (1.20)
Dec 2025 11.9% (1.39)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 2.29% High 14.6%
Ten-year median 11.8%
Current reading's percentile 2

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
WDFC WD-40 Company compare 15.8%
NGVT Ingevity Corporation compare 11.8%
FUL H. B. Fuller Company compare 10.7%
IOSP Innospec Inc. compare 8.79%
KWR Quaker Houghton compare 7.61%
SCL Stepan Company compare 0.95%
CC The Chemours Company compare 0.39%
MTX Minerals Technologies Inc. −1.60%
STDN Standard Nuclear Inc compare —
Specialty Chemicals industry median 5.64%
Basic Materials sector median 2.88%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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