SQM Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Sociedad Quimica Y Minera S.A. | NYSE:SQM)

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 March 6, 2026, SQM stock price declined to $70.39 with 1,064,999 million shares trading.

SQM has a beta of 0.80, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SQM has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SQM has a market cap of $20.11 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Sociedad Quimica Y Minera S.A. reported $1 billion in Revenue and $.64 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $63 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.14.

In the last 3 years, SQM traded as high as $86.46 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 +66.9% while the SPY ETF gained +18.7%. SQM has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +14.9% and -2.0%, respectively, while the SPY returned -1.7% and -2.5%, respectively.

SQM support price is $68.00 and resistance is $73.24 (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.