Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM)

• Market cap: $12.5B
• 1 day: -1.71%
• 5 days: 4.22%
• 1 month: 0.76%
• 3 months: 12.14%
• 6 months: 25.09%
• Year to date: 21.17%
• 1 year: 13.16%
• 5 years: 26.06%
• 10 years: 166.02%
• 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: 7,949