Dividend Power Score
A single, comprehensive score designed to measure the true strength of a company’s dividend.
This score combines three essential pillars of dividend quality:
Consistency – Measures how reliable the dividend has been over time, focusing on payment history, stability, and the absence of cuts or suspensions.
Payability – Assesses the company’s financial ability to sustain its dividend, taking into account cash flow, earnings coverage, balance sheet strength, and overall financial health.
Growth – Evaluates the long-term growth of both the dividend and the company’s share price, highlighting businesses that consistently increase payouts while creating shareholder value.
Higher scores identify companies that have historically delivered dependable income alongside sustained dividend growth and long-term capital appreciation.
Company Overview
Metso Oyj is a Finland-based industrial company providing technology, equipment, and services for the mining, aggregates, and metals refining industries. The company focuses on improving resource efficiency, productivity, and sustainability across its customers’ value chains. Its core offerings include process technology, crushing and screening equipment, mineral processing solutions, and extensive aftermarket services.
Metso’s primary revenue drivers are equipment sales for new projects and recurring services such as spare parts, maintenance, digital solutions, and process optimization. The company serves mining companies, quarry operators, construction material producers, and metal refiners. Metso is positioned as a technology leader with a strong installed base, long customer relationships, and a lifecycle service model that provides recurring revenue and margin stability.
Metso was formed in its current structure in 2020 following the partial demerger of Metso Corporation, which separated the flow control business into Neles Oyj (later acquired by Valmet). The remaining entity, Metso Outotec, focused on minerals and metals processing. In 2023, the company simplified its brand and legal name to Metso Oyj, reflecting a unified industrial identity.
Business Operations
Metso operates through two primary business segments: Minerals and Metals. The Minerals segment supplies crushing, screening, grinding, separation, and material handling solutions, as well as comprehensive aftermarket services for mining and aggregates customers. The Metals segment provides technologies and services for metal and chemical processing, including smelting, hydrometallurgy, and sustainable metals production.
The company generates revenue from capital equipment sales, project deliveries, and a significant services business that includes consumables, spare parts, repairs, upgrades, and digital optimization tools. Metso operates globally with both manufacturing and service centers, and it maintains a large installed equipment base that supports long-term service contracts. The company controls proprietary technologies in comminution, beneficiation, and metals processing and holds a broad portfolio of process know-how developed over decades.
Strategic Position & Investments
Metso’s strategy emphasizes profitable growth through services expansion, technology leadership, and sustainability-driven innovation. A core strategic priority is increasing the share of services revenue, leveraging its installed base to deliver stable cash flow and closer customer integration. The company also focuses on energy-efficient and low-emission technologies that support customers’ decarbonization goals.
Metso has pursued targeted acquisitions to strengthen its technology portfolio and regional presence, including businesses that enhance its offerings in comminution, beneficiation, and services. The company invests heavily in research and development related to digitalization, process optimization, and sustainable minerals processing. Emerging areas of focus include battery minerals, recycling-related technologies, and solutions that reduce water and energy consumption in mining and metals refining.
Geographic Footprint
Metso is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, and operates across Europe, North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East. Its global footprint includes manufacturing facilities, service centers, and sales offices in more than 40 countries, supporting customers in both mature and emerging markets.
The company has a particularly strong presence in major mining regions such as Latin America, North America, Australia, and Southern Africa, where demand for minerals and metals processing equipment and services is concentrated. Metso’s global service network enables localized support while leveraging centralized technology development and supply chain capabilities.
Leadership & Governance
Metso is led by an executive team with extensive experience in global industrial operations, technology development, and capital markets. The company emphasizes a leadership philosophy centered on customer-centric innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability as a driver of long-term value creation.
Key members of Metso’s leadership include:
- Pekka Vauramo – President and Chief Executive Officer
- Kati ter Horst – Chief Financial Officer
- Jani Puroranta – President, Minerals
- Jari Ålgars – President, Metals
- Piia Karhu – Chief Human Resources Officer
- Risto Pukki – President, Services
Metso operates under a Finnish corporate governance framework, with oversight provided by a Board of Directors responsible for strategy, risk management, and executive accountability.