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) Return on invested capital

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Minerals Technologies Inc.'s return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was −0.99%, down 2.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (1.25%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.25% (fiscal 2025) to 7.68% (fiscal 2018) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is below the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 3.21% and below the Basic Materials sector median of 0.96%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 1.25% (6.17)
FY2024 7.42% 2.74
FY2023 4.68% (1.15)
FY2022 5.83% (0.83)
FY2021 6.66% 0.96
FY2020 5.70% (0.76)
FY2019 6.46% (1.22)
FY2018 7.68% 0.15
FY2017 7.53% 0.23
FY2016 7.30% 0.93

Against its own ten years

Low 1.25% High 7.68%
Ten-year median 6.46%
Current reading's percentile 9

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
WDFC WD-40 Company compare 23.6%
NGVT Ingevity Corporation compare 9.33%
IOSP Innospec Inc. compare 9.12%
FUL H. B. Fuller Company compare 5.77%
KWR Quaker Houghton compare 4.50%
SCL Stepan Company compare 0.96%
CC The Chemours Company compare 0.44%
STDN Standard Nuclear Inc compare 0.00%
MTX Minerals Technologies Inc. −0.99%
Specialty Chemicals industry median 3.21%
Basic Materials sector median 0.96%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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