Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in SQM, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile saw a increase in short interest in the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,640,000 shares, an increase of 52.9% from the March 31st total of 2,380,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,200,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.0 days. Currently, 3.2% of the company's stock are short sold.
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Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 19th 2021.
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Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 19th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (NYSE:SQM) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, March, 2nd. The basic materials company reported $0.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.20 by $0.05. The basic materials company earned $513.80 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $485.76 million. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.93% and a net margin of 9.26%.
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Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's stock was trading at $23.94 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, SQM shares have increased by 96.2% and is now trading at $46.96.
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Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile announced a -- dividend on Wednesday, October 7th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.247 per share on Thursday, October 8th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.3%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 8th.
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Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.13 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.25%. The dividend payout ratio of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is 12.26%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile will have a dividend payout ratio of 12.75% next year. This indicates that Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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6 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's stock. Their forecasts range from $25.00 to $70.00. On average, they expect Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's stock price to reach $50.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.3% from the stock's current price.
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7 employees have rated Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile CEO Patricio Contesse González on Glassdoor.com. Patricio Contesse González has an approval rating of 59% among Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's employees. This puts Patricio Contesse González in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SQM."

Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Robeco Schweiz AG (0.59%), AGF Investments Inc. (0.11%), SailingStone Capital Partners LLC (0.10%), Credit Suisse AG (0.07%), Strs Ohio (0.07%) and Vancity Investment Management Ltd (0.05%).

SQM stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Citigroup Inc., SG Americas Securities LLC, SailingStone Capital Partners LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Strs Ohio, Sigma Planning Corp, and Quantbot Technologies LP.

SQM stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Robeco Schweiz AG, AGF Investments Inc., Credit Suisse AG, Gunderson Capital Management Inc., Bank of Montreal Can, Moody Lynn & Lieberson LLC, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC, and Waddell & Reed Financial Inc..

Shares of SQM can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of SQM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $46.96.

Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a market capitalization of $12.36 billion and generates $1.94 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $278.11 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.06 on an earnings per share basis.

Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile employs 5,507 workers across the globe.

Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile was founded in 1968.

The official website for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is www.sqm.com.

Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is headquartered at EL TROVADOR 4285 6TH FLOOR, SANTIAGO F3, .

Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's mailing address is EL TROVADOR 4285 6TH FLOOR, SANTIAGO F3, . The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 56-22425-2000 or via email at [email protected]