Stock · SDF.DE · Basic Materials
Germany · Mid Cap · Revenue 12 mo. €3.9B
Price as of 11/06/2026
K+S Aktiengesellschaft, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a supplier of mineral products for the agricultural, industrial, pharma, consumer, and community sectors in Europe, Germany, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
K+S Aktiengesellschaft, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a supplier of mineral products for the agricultural, industrial, pharma, consumer, and community sectors in Europe, Germany, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. The company offers potassium chloride for crops, such as grain, corn, rice, soybeans, and sugar cane; fertilizer specialties that are used for crops with magnesium and sulfur requirements, including rapeseed, sugar beet, and potatoes, as well as for chloride-sensitive specialty crops such as citrus, grapes, coffee, almond trees, and vegetables; and water-soluble fertilizers for use in fertigation of fruit and vegetables under the KALISOP, KORN-KALI, ROLLKALI, PATENTKALI, ESTA KIESERIT, GRANUAID, MAGNESIA-KAINIT, SOLUMOP, SOLUSOP, SOLUCMS, EPSO TOP, EPSO MICROTOP, EPSO COMBITOP, EPSO PROFITOP, and EPSO BORTOP brands. It also provides soil, fertigation, foliar fertilizers, natural rock salt, high-purity vaccum salt and mineral salt mixtures, potassium chloride, potassium sulphate, Epsom salt, minerals for pets and livestock, potassium, magnesium, salt, salt licks for farm and wild animals, sodium chloride, salt tablets, and vacuum salt granules under the k-DRILL, KaSa, SOLSEL, NUTRIKS, AXAL PRO, REGINET, Regesal, Marina, Marina Plus, Solea, and APISAL brands. In addition, the company offers salts under the Cérébos brand; rock salt under the Solné mlýny Olomouc brand; sea salt under the Vatel and Salinas d'Algarve brands; Saltissimo brands; optimal solutions for their homes under the AXAL Pro and AXAL brand; rock and pink salts under the Saldoro brand; dishwasher salt under the Regesoft brand; and Coarse rock salt under the DI-MIX brand. Further, the company provides waste management; and transportation and logistics services. Aktiengesellschaft was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Kassel, Germany.
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Summary
42.1 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €28.3M (2025), it supports €314.4M. The remaining €2B of the market value assume it grows 27.9% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
27.9%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 3.8×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 3.1× to 4.8×, median 3.6×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No indication in the stored figures.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
2 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF margin
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | −22.03% | 10.66% | Rank 0 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | −21.66% | 14.75% | Rank 0 |
| EBIT margin | −39.39% | 15.82% | Rank 0 |
| FCF margin | 0.78% | 8.70% | Rank 14 |
| Gross margin | −31.14% | 34.18% | Rank 0 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | −0.14% | 4.25% | Rank 32 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank | – | 0.28% | |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank | – | 13.36% | |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 15.21% | 9.35% | Rank 68 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | −44.96% | 4.98% | Rank 0 |
| FCF yield | 1.22% | 3.94% | Rank 18 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 0.71 | 2.36 | Rank 92 |
| EV/EBITlower is betterdoes not count towards the rank | – | 14.61 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 14.21% | 8.75% | Rank 64 |
| Share price, 6 months | −12.76% | −1.37% | Rank 31 |
| Share price, 3 months | −2.35% | −1.16% | Rank 44 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −26.83% | −21.97% | Rank 33 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −14.87% | 0.63% | Rank 100 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 0.00% | −0.01% | Rank 44 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 3 | Rank 14 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 1.95% | 0.05% | Rank 71 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 61.51% | 54.83% | Rank 64 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is betterdoes not count towards the rank | – | 1.01 | |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.16 | 0.37 | Rank 73 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 36.44% | 37.23% | Rank 53 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, €B | EBIT margin | FCF, €M | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3.5 | 6.6% | −766.4 | 191M | €2.4B |
| 2017 | 3.6 | 7.5% | −448.0 | 191M | €2.8B |
| 2018 | 4.0 | 5.6% | −206.0 | 191M | €3.1B |
| 2019 | 4.1 | 6.6% | 133.9 | 191M | €3.1B |
| 2020 | 2.4 | −80.2% | −107.9 | 191M | €3.5B |
| 2021 | 3.2 | 119.9% | −31.8 | 191M | €1.1B |
| 2022 | 5.7 | 40.3% | 917.6 | 191M | €628.8M |
| 2023 | 3.9 | 8.4% | 338.8 | 187M | €422.3M |
| 2024 | 3.7 | 0.2% | 68.7 | 179M | €428.3M |
| 2025 | 3.6 | −39.4% | 28.3 | 179M | €331.9M |
0 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
K+S Aktiengesellschaft mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
K+S Aktiengesellschaft is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
0 of 7 rules met
0 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for K+S Aktiengesellschaft.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | −1.8 | 19.6 |
| P/B ratio | 0.5 | 2.1 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | −22.0% | 10.7% |
| Equity ratio | 61.5% | 54.8% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.16 | 0.37 |
| Dividend yield | 0.5% | 2.1% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| SDF.DE | K+S Aktiengesellschaftthis page | |
| KWS.DE | KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA | Low0.0 |
| MOS | The Mosaic Company | Low0.0 |
| 2020.SR | SABIC AgriNutrients Co | locked |
| 000792.SZ | Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co.Ltd | locked |
| CF | CF Industries Holdings Inc | locked |
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