With a market cap of $8.4 billion, The Mosaic Company (MOS) operates in the agricultural chemicals industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, it is a leading global producer of concentrated phosphate and potash, which are essential crop nutrients for the agriculture sector. The company is expected to announce its fiscal Q3 earnings results on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
Ahead of this event, analysts expect the fertilizer maker to report a profit of $0.58 per share, a decrease of 14.7% from $0.68 per share in the previous year's quarter. The company has surpassed Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in one of the past four quarters while missing on three other occasions. In the most recent quarter, the company missed the consensus EPS estimate by 20.6% margin.
