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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 December 19, 2025, SQM stock price climbed to $68.76 with 1,340,763 million shares trading.
SQM has a beta of 0.68, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SQM has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.
SQM has a market cap of $19.64 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Sociedad Quimica Y Minera S.A. reported $1 billion in Revenue and $.62 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $19 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.04.
In the last 3 years, SQM traded as high as $98.66 and as low as $29.36.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that SQM belongs to (by Net Assets): REMX, LIT, ILF, AVEM, PBW.
SQM has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +82.7% while the SPY ETF gained +18.1%. SQM has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +58.2% and +12.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.8% and -0.5%, respectively.
SQM support price is $65.81 and resistance is $69.59 (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.