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Indian state firms seek 20% stake in Chilean miner SQM lithium projects in Australia - report
Seeking Alpha News (Fri, 28-Mar 4:41 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 is developing a 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 April 1, 2025, SQM stock price climbed to $40.05 with 721,315 million shares trading.
SQM has a beta of 0.57, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SQM has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.
SQM has a market cap of $11.44 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Sociedad Quimica Y Minera S.A. reported $1 billion in Revenue and $.42 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $64 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.12.
In the last 3 years, SQM traded as high as $115.76 and as low as $32.24.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that SQM belongs to (by Net Assets): LIT, REMX, ILF, VWO, AVEM.
SQM has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -18.1% while the SPY ETF gained +8.6%. However, in the short term, SQM had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +10.1% vs -4.0% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, SQM shares have been beat by the market, returning -12.0% compared to an SPY return of -0.8%.
SQM support price is $38.75 and resistance is $40.71 (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.