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Minerals Technologies (MTX) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Oct 12 close
$62.95−0.65 (−1.0%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryOct 12 closeMinerals Technologies priced $400 million in 7.50 percent senior notes due 2032 to refinance existing 5.00 percent notes due 2028, a move that extends debt maturity while raising the company's interest rate. Separately, the stock has drawn comparison with peer Intrepid Potash in a review of institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability and risk between the two small-cap materials names.
MTX closed at $62.95, down 1% on the day, sitting below both its 50-day average of $69.76 and its 200-day average of $71.48, with the 50-day also below the 200-day. The stock's one-month return stands at -8.5%, its three-month return at -13%, and its six-month return at -13.8%, against a 52-week range of $53.94 to $84.34. The GekkoIndex reads 73.1, placing MTX in the Buying zone, while the price sits 12.8% below the Gekko Fair Value of $72.2.
Minerals Technologies next reports earnings on 29 October 2026, 17 days away and inside a typical 20-trading-day holding window; its last report showed EPS of $1.38 against an estimate of $1.25, with a 7.9% reaction, and six beats across the last eight quarters. No insider, Congress, or unusual options activity appears in the respective 90-day and 30-day windows. Seasonality from this point in the calendar has averaged a 6.6% move over the next 20 trading days across 5 years, rising in 4 of them. Consensus among 2 covering firms stands at a $91.25 target, both rated buy.
Written by AI from the Oct 12, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
Minerals Technologies price vs fair value
Close $62.95200-day averageGekko Fair Value $72.20
Minerals Technologies quick facts
- Market cap
- $1.95B
- P/E ratio
- —
- Forward P/E
- 9.4
- EPS, TTM
- −$2.20
- Revenue, TTM
- $2.15B
- Profit margin
- -3.1%
- Dividend yield
- 0.72%
- Beta
- 1.12
- Volume
- 181,106 avg 185,539
- 1-year return
- +4.9%
- Typical daily move
- ±2%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±5.4%
- 50-day average
- $69.76
- 200-day average
- $71.48
- Next earnings
- Oct 29
- Shares outstanding
- 31.13M
Minerals Technologies swing-trade checklist
Minerals Technologies scores 3 supportive, 0 mixed and 2 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive0 mixed2 headwinds
- Trendheadwind
Below 50 and 200-day
Close $62.95 is below the 50-day ($69.76) and 200-day ($71.48) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
73.1, Buying
Reading 73.1 is in the Buying zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
12.8% below
Price is 12.8% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
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No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings riskheadwind
Reports in 17 days
Reports on Oct 29, 2026, 17 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+6.6% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +6.6% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
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Minerals Technologies stock chart and price history
Minerals Technologies closed at $62.95 on Oct 12, 2026, +4.9% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $53.94 to $84.34.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −8.5%
- 3 months
- −13.0%
- 6 months
- −13.8%
- 1 year
- +4.9%
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About Minerals Technologies
Minerals Technologies develops and supplies a broad range of mineral-based and synthetic mineral products, along with related systems and services. It is perhaps best recognized for its work in specialty minerals such as precipitated calcium carbonate and quicklime, used widely across paper, construction, paints and coatings, glass, ceramics, food, automotive and pharmaceutical applications, as well as for its bentonite, leonardite and refractory products.
The business is organized into three divisions. Performance Materials covers bentonite, leonardite, and materials for metal casting, household and personal care uses, environmental work, and building components, serving customers in non-residential construction, infrastructure and remediation. Specialty Minerals produces calcium carbonate, quicklime, limestone and talc for industrial customers. Refractories supplies monolithic and pre-shaped refractory materials, equipment and metallurgical wire products mainly for steel, non-ferrous metal and glass producers. Sales run through an internal sales force and regional distributors, reaching customers across the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Minerals Technologies was founded in 1968 and is based in New York, New York. Its shares are listed on the NYSE under the ticker MTX.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: specialty
- Website
- mineralstech.com
Minerals Technologies GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Minerals Technologies’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 73.1, in the Buying zone, up 6.2 points over five sessions.
73.1Buying
Up 6.2 points over five sessions, from the Accumulation zone.
Reading for Oct 12, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying (current zone) | 37 | +0.9% | +1.5% | ||
| Accumulation | 215 | 0.0% | +0.1% | ||
| Neutral | 395 | 0.0% | +0.3% | ||
| Distribution | 34 | +0.3% | −0.4% | ||
| Selling | 1 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average MTX share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Buying readings averaged +3.1% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is Minerals Technologies stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Minerals Technologies trades 12.8% below Gekko Fair Value of $72.20, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Minerals Technologies shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$72.20
Gekko Fair Value, Oct 10, 2026
12.8% Undervalued
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 4.6% below the estimate.
Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
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Minerals Technologies insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Minerals Technologies, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in MTX were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Minerals Technologies has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jul 5, 2026
- $1.70M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.09%
- Trailing four quarters
- $35.10M
From company filings.
Minerals Technologies earnings: next date and track record
Minerals Technologies reports on Oct 29, 2026 (17 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 6 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 29, 2026
17 days away
- EPS estimate
- $1.51
- Revenue estimate
- $553.8M
6 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±4.8%average move across the report
2 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Apr 30, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Minerals Technologies reported a strong start to 2026 with broad-based, double-digit year-over-year growth in Q1 sales to $547 million (11% YoY), driven by both Consumer & Specialty and Engineered Solutions segments. Management highlighted early returns from strategic growth investments intended to contribute $100 million of annualized revenue this year, with specific momentum in pet (cat) litter, sustainable aviation fuel (bleaching earth), PCC satellites for paper & packaging, and FLUORO-SORB installations for PFAS remediation. Operating income (ex-special items) was $68 million (up 7% YoY) and EPS rose to $1.38 (up 21%). Management acknowledged margin pressure in Q1 from a sharp, late-quarter increase in freight and energy costs and higher corporate mark-to-market stock compensation, estimating a roughly $2M price-cost lag in Q1 and a potential $3M lag in Q2 before tapering into Q3. The company reported improved operating and free cash flows and reiterated pricing power and historical ability to pass through inflationary costs. Several product-specific growth initiatives are ramping: two cat litter plants in North America and one in China, a late-Q2 bleaching earth facility largely booked for the year, multiple PCC satellite sites ramping, and an expanding pipeline for FLUORO-SORB (10+ full-scale installations in H2 2026 and 10 more in process). Management emphasized regional demand improvements in mining and environmental/infrastructure, while noting softness in residential construction and cyclicality in heavy truck and ag foundry markets.
- Guidance
- - Management expects underlying organic growth of mid-single digits with a floor of about mid-single digits (~5%) for the year driven by durable end markets and growth investments. - Pricing: minimal (~1%) realized in Q1; expect additional price increases as implemented to cover higher freight and energy costs. - Price-cost lag: estimated ~$2M impact in Q1, ~$3M in Q2, and tapering to ~+$1M (residual) impact by Q3 assuming energy costs stabilize. - Expectation to be essentially caught up on pass-through of higher costs by Q3 (may have ~ $1M lingering impact). - Growth projects: $100M annualized incremental revenue beginning this year (first portion delivered in Q1); FLUORO-SORB: ~10 full installations in H2 2026 with ~10 more progressing into late 2026/early 2027.
- Risks flagged
- - Volatility in energy and freight costs creating margin pressure and contractual lags to pass through higher costs. - Currency (FX) movements that contributed ~3% to Q1 growth and could fluctuate. - Softness in certain end markets (residential construction, heavy truck and off-highway ag foundry demand) that can negatively affect mix and margins. - Regional demand risk in Asia/Europe if higher energy costs persist and dampen growth. - Execution risks tied to ramping new facilities and converting pilot trials to full commercial deployments (e.g., FLUORO-SORB installations).
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2026 | $1.38 est $1.25 | $546.9M est $516.4M | +7.9% |
| Jan 29, 2026 | $1.27 est $1.28 | $519.5M est $517.9M | −0.8% |
| Oct 23, 2025 | $1.55 est $1.47 | $532.4M est $517.8M | −1.3% |
| Jul 24, 2025 | $1.55 est $1.43 | $528.9M est $531.2M | +8.9% |
| Apr 24, 2025 | $1.14 est $1.16 | $491.8M est $492.0M | −7.9% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | $1.50 est $1.39 | $518.1M est $522.9M | −2.6% |
| Oct 24, 2024 | $1.51 est $1.50 | $524.7M est $533.6M | −0.9% |
| Jul 25, 2024 | $1.65 est $1.60 | $541.2M est $556.4M | −8.1% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Minerals Technologies stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Minerals Technologies is $91.25, +45.0% from the last close, from 2 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$91.25consensus 12-month target, +45.0% from the last close
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 2 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | Truist Financial | $90 | +43.0% |
| Sep 23 | Freedom Capital Markets | $90 | +43.0% |
| Sep 18 | Freedom Capital Markets | $90 | +43.0% |
| Aug 3 | Truist Financial | $90 | +43.0% |
+1.5%average 20-day move after past Buying readings
+6.6%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±2%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Minerals Technologies seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Oct 10, Minerals Technologies averaged +6.6% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +1.9% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +2.6% | 5 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +2.8% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +6.6% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +7.8% | 5 of 5 |
For scale, MTX’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 5.4%.
Minerals Technologies market cap and key statistics
Minerals Technologies’s market cap is $1.95B and revenue of $2.15B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $1.95B
- Forward P/E
- 9.4
- EPS, TTM
- −$2.20
- Gekko Fair Value
- $72.20
Trading
- Volume
- 181,106
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 185,539
- 52-week high
- $84.34
- 52-week low
- $53.94
- Shares outstanding
- 31.13M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $2.15B
- Profit margin
- -3.1%
- Return on equity
- -3.8%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- −28.8%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.12
- Typical daily move
- ±2%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±5.4%
- Dividend yield
- 0.72%
Minerals Technologies stock news this week
Coverage of Minerals Technologies this week reads neutral: 0 positive, 4 neutral and 0 negative headlines.
- U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, EXIM Chairman John Jovanovic, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen, Senators Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts, and Congressman Adrian Smith to Visit NioCorp's Critical Minerals Mine SiteAccesswire, Oct 12
- Reviewing Intrepid Potash (NYSE:IPI) & Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX)Defense World, Oct 11
- Heliostar Metals to Present at the Precious Metals & Critical Minerals Virtual Investor Conference October 14GlobeNewsWire, Oct 9
- Stillwater Critical Minerals Upgrades to OTCQX Best Market, Expanding U.S. Market PresenceAccesswire, Oct 9
- Stillwater Critical Minerals Corp. Begins Trading on OTCQX Best MarketGlobeNewsWire, Oct 9
- Minerals Technologies prices USD 400 million notes as Minerals Technologies stock costs EUR 57.75AD HOC NEWS, Oct 8
Minerals Technologies peers
Minerals Technologies’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| LINLinde | Neutral | 0.3% below |
| ECLEcolab | Neutral | 9.4% above |
| APDAir Products and Chemicals | Accumulation | 9.5% below |
| DOWDow | Accumulation | 33.5% below |
| LYBLyondellBasell Industries | Accumulation | 10.6% below |
| ALBAlbemarle | Accumulation | 29.6% below |
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Minerals Technologies stock FAQ
What is Minerals Technologies’s market cap?
Minerals Technologies’s market cap is $1.95B at the Oct 12, 2026 close of $62.95, with 31.13M shares outstanding.
What is the Minerals Technologies stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Minerals Technologies is $91.25, +45.0% from the last close. Of the 2 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 2 rate it a buy, 0 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Minerals Technologies stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Minerals Technologies is undervalued: the Oct 12, 2026 close of $62.95 is 12.8% below Gekko Fair Value of $72.20. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Minerals Technologies report earnings next?
Minerals Technologies is expected to report on Oct 29, 2026 (17 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $1.51 per share on revenue of $553.8M. Minerals Technologies beat the earnings estimate in 6 of its last 8 reports, moving 4.8% on average across the report.
What is Minerals Technologies’s 52-week high and low?
Minerals Technologies’s 52-week high is $84.34 and its 52-week low is $53.94; it closed at $62.95 on Oct 12, 2026, +4.9% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $90.30 on Jul 24, 2024.
Is Minerals Technologies stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value and seasonality) and 2 as headwinds (trend and earnings risk). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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