SQM Reports Earnings for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026
Globe Newswire (Tue, 26-May 7:54 PM ET)
SQM Returns to Profit with $588 Million Net Income and Record Lithium Sales as Market Dynamics Shift
Market Chameleon (Mon, 2-Mar 3:20 AM ET)
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.
Sociedad Quimica Y Minera S.A. trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SQM.
As of June 17, 2026, SQM stock price declined to $82.99 with 983,140 million shares trading.
SQM has a beta of 1.41, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. SQM has a correlation of 0.12 to the broad based SPY ETF.
SQM has a market cap of $23.71 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Sociedad Quimica Y Minera S.A. reported $2 billion in Revenue and $1.28 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $59 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.32.
In the last 3 years, SQM traded as high as $98.00 and as low as $29.36.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that SQM belongs to (by Net Assets): REMX, ILF, LIT, AVEM, VWO.
SQM has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +153.5% while the SPY ETF gained +24.2%. However, in the short term, SQM had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +10.0% vs +11.0% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, SQM shares have fared better than the market returning +2.7% compared to SPY -2.5%.
SQM support price is $80.68 and resistance is $85.54 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that SQM shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
