Maintaining $35 FVE as Mosaic Announces Plant City Phosphate Production Closure; Shares Undervalued
On June 18, Mosaic announced the closure of the previously idled Plant City, Florida, phosphate plant. The plant had been idled since 2017, as Mosaic reduced its higher-cost production to support global phosphate prices. In our valuation model, we had previously assumed Plant City would restart production in 2021. The phosphate plant produced 1.3 million metric tons in 2017, the last year of operation. As a result of the plant's closure, we now forecast Mosaic to produce roughly 9 million metric...Mosaic is a producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients. The company is organized into three reportable business segments: Phosphates, which owns and operates mines and production facilities in Florida that produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients and phosphate-based animal feed ingredients, and processing plants in Louisiana that produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients; Potash, which mines and processes potash in Canada and the United States and sells potash in North America and internationally; and Mosaic Fertilizantes, which produces and sells concentrated phosphates crop nutrients, phosphate-based animal feed ingredients and potash fertilizer.
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