Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM)

• Market cap: $24.5B
• 1 day: 2.17%
• 5 days: 8%
• 1 month: -5.65%
• 3 months: 13.54%
• 6 months: 34.32%
• Year to date: 23.15%
• 1 year: 172.95%
• 5 years: 92.92%
• 10 years: 291.03%
• 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: 7,739