Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM)

• Market cap: $19.7B
• 1 day: -0.26%
• 5 days: -3.68%
• 1 month: 7.62%
• 3 months: 60.07%
• 6 months: 95.07%
• Year to date: 90.85%
• 1 year: 89.22%
• 5 years: 40.15%
• 10 years: 271.69%
• 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