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Intrepid Potash, Inc.

$IPI·$544M·Agricultural Inputs·Basic Materials
$40.51-1.0%1Y+38.2%
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IPIPI
$IPIIntrepid Potash, Inc.
$40.51-0.98%30 posts
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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Intrepid Potash, Inc. (IPI), a company founded in 2000 and based in Denver, Colorado, specializes in the extraction and production of potash for markets within the United States and globally. The firm's operations are strategically divided into three principal segments: Potash, Trio, and Oilfield Solutions. Within the Potash segment, Intrepid supplies muriate of potash, also known as potassium chloride. This versatile compound serves multiple applications, including as a vital fertilizer component for agriculture, an essential ingredient in drilling and fracturing fluids for the oil and gas sector, an input for various industrial processes, and a nutritional supplement for animal feed. The Trio segment focuses on a specialized fertilizer product named Trio, which uniquely delivers potassium, sulfate, and magnesium in a single, convenient particle. Through its Oilfield Solutions segment, Intrepid provides critical support to the oil and gas services industry by supplying water, delivering on-site, real-time potassium chloride mixing for hydraulic fracturing operations, and offering comprehensive trucking services. Beyond these core segments, the company diversifies its product portfolio with various other offerings. These include: salt, utilized in animal feeds, diverse industrial applications, pool maintenance, and for de-icing or managing road conditions; magnesium chloride, employed for deicing and dedusting roadways; brines, crucial for well development and completion activities within the oil and gas industry; and a specialized metal recovery salt, which combines potash and salt to optimize aluminum recovery in recycling facilities.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Agricultural Inputs sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $IPI.

Agricultural Inputs · Basic Materials

Crop price cycles (corn, soy, wheat) drive agricultural input and equipment demand; fertilizer pricing has normalized from post-Ukraine spike peaks. Precision agriculture adoption (GPS planting, AI-driven yield optimization) is the structural demand driver for capital equipment.

Top industry ETF

$MOOVanEck Agribusiness ETF
+11.6%YTD
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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
20.5How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
2.1%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
4.3%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
5.6%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
1.9Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
5.3%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
19.8%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.0Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 4, 2026$0.56$0.78-28.1%
Q1 2026May 6, 2026$0.62$0.48+29.2%
Q4 2025Mar 4, 2026$0.49$0.26+88.5%
Q3 2025Nov 5, 2025$0.11$0.13-15.4%
Next earningsWed, Nov 4·consensus EPS $0.26

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q2 FY26$66.7M-6.7%25.0%1.6%$1.18$25.9M
Q1 FY26$98.7M+4.4%17.1%5.7%$0.56$18.0M
Q4 FY25$75.9M+36.0%19.4%6.8%$-0.03$-1.2M
Q3 FY25$53.2M-7.5%18.6%1.7%$0.29$-11.7M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 3 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$270.2M$249.3M – $303.8M$2.11$1.90 – $2.452
FY27$258.0M$238.1M – $290.1M$1.41$1.27 – $1.642
FY28$249.6M$223.9M – $289.0M$0.72$0.65 – $0.843
FY29$284.5M$262.5M – $319.9M$1.70$1.53 – $1.971
FY30$284.5M$262.5M – $319.9M$1.66$1.49 – $1.932

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.9×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.65%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+12.9%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+15.2%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatLow float · 10.8M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.7% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.255-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellMay 12Lori A LancasterDirector4.8K sh$217K
+ 31 other (13 inkinds · 11 awards · 7 exempts) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 223
8-KOfficer or director changeJun 158-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KShareholder voteJun 38-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KAcquisition completedApr 28-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.01: Acquisition completed · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KOfficer or director changeMar 168-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 133
+ 9 other (2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 13Gs · 2 proxys) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Are Basic Materials Stocks Lagging Intrepid Potash (IPI) This Year?zacks.com·2d ago5 High-Efficient Stocks With Strong Financial Performancezacks.com·2d agoBlackRock Inc. Acquires Shares of 1,155,559 Intrepid Potash, Inc $IPIdefenseworld.net·3d agoConnor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. Purchases New Stake in Intrepid Potash, Inc $IPIdefenseworld.net·4d agoIntrepid Potash: Seeing This As A Cyclical Play Is A Mistakeseekingalpha.com·5d ago

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