profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
K+S
€12.70-0.16% today
+3.8% since Dec 21, 25
1-year low €12.151-year high €18.26
Trading close to its lowest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
It has no yearly profit to compare the price with.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What K+S sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €5.68 billion in 2022 to €3.65 billion in 2025, with -€1.08 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
K+S handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
€28M
Free cash flow 2025€10M
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends€28M
Cash vs. debt€434M vs. €495M
K+S vs. similar companies
How it compares with the largest companies in its industry.
| Company | Profit from €100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per €1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| K+S | No profit yet | ||
 Nutrien | 14.9× · Cheap | ||
 CF Industries Holdings | 12.6× · Cheap | ||
 Industries Qatar Q.P.S.C. | 14.8× · Cheap | ||
 Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co.,Ltd | 13.6× · Cheap |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads K+S's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,677 | 3,873 | 3,653 | 3,648 | |
| 2,457 | 564 | 308 | -1,115 | |
| 2,171 | 289 | 39 | -1,409 | |
| 2,607 | 808 | 480 | 719 | |
| 1,508 | 210 | -67 | -1,076 | |
| 7.88 | 1.12 | -0.37 | -6.01 | |
| 43.3% | 14.6% | 8.4% | -30.6% | |
| 38.2% | 7.5% | 1.1% | -38.6% | |
| 26.6% | 5.4% | -1.8% | -29.5% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 9,890 | 9,474 | 9,354 | 7,698 |
| Cash | 320 | 152 | 318 | 434 |
| Total debt | – | 383 | 494 | 495 |
| Total liabilities | 3,170 | 2,971 | 3,137 | 2,810 |
| 6,720 | 6,503 | 6,212 | 4,884 | |
| 191 | 187 | 179 | 179 | |
| 22.5% | 3.6% | -0.8% | -17.1% | |
| 22.4% | 3.2% | -1.1% | -22.0% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,392 | 821 | 591 | 573 | |
| 474 | 482 | 522 | 563 | |
| 918 | 339 | 69 | 10 | |
| Dividends paid | 38 | 191 | 126 | 28 |
| 2 | 198 | 0 | – | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- –
- –
- –
- 0.5×
- 0.6×
- 225.2×
- 3.2×
- 0.4%
- -47.3%
- 1.2%
Profitability
- -30.6%
- -38.6%
- -29.5%
- –
- -17.1%
- 2.0%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −13.7%
- –
- –
- –
- −2.2%
Financial health
- 0.1×
- 0.10
- –
- -58.6×
- 3.43
- –
- –
How it ranks in Materials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 3%of 992
Bottom 1%of 961
Bottom 7%of 956
Bottom 37%of 991
1.2%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$12a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
: 274.3%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
1/7Passes 1 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
21No pass
Benjamin Graham
73Pass
Philip Fisher
31No pass
Peter Lynch
28No pass
Joel Greenblatt
0No pass
Charlie Munger
30No pass
Terry Smith
19No pass
Questions about K+S
Is K+S a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers that is not profitable yet. 1 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the K+S AI analysis
What does K+S do?
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. It is in Agricultural Inputs, based in Kassel, Germany, with 11,261 employees.
Does K+S pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.2% a year. In 2025 it paid out €27.7 million in dividends.
Is K+S stock halal?
Yes. K+S passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 22% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
Who are K+S's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Nutrien, CF Industries Holdings, Industries Qatar Q.P.S.C. and Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co.,Ltd. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with K+S's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.