Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM)

• Market cap: $20.3B
• 1 day: 1.14%
• 5 days: -1.25%
• 1 month: -12.44%
• 3 months: 33.29%
• 6 months: 52.66%
• Year to date: 1.69%
• 1 year: 76.52%
• 5 years: 23.41%
• 10 years: 351.94%
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Specialty Chemicals

About: Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile is a Chilean commodities producer with significant operations in lithium (primarily used in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems), specialty and standard potassium fertilizers, iodine (primarily used in X-ray contrast media), and solar salts. The company extracts these materials through its high-quality salt brine deposits and caliche ore. SQM also sells lithium concentrate from a joint venture hard rock lithium project in Australia and expanding its lithium refining assets in China.

Employees: 7,823