SQM — Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A.
Basic Materials · ETF XLB · as of 2026-09-18
Daily · EMA 10 / 20 / 50 · SMA 200 · VolPress: buy/sell split, 20-SMA, white dot = above avg · · E = earnings · RS vs SPY ⓘ · ● RS new high ⓘ
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A.
NYQ
Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals
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.
Price & today
$67.72
ATR(14) 2.84 (4.19%)
| Stock today | -5.68% |
| Sector ETF today | -1.42% |
| Residual (stock-specific) | -4.26% |
Sector correlation
| 20-day correlation with XLB | 0.42 |
| 60-day correlation with XLB | 0.11 |
| Status | normal |
Decoupling fires when 60d corr − 20d corr > 0.20: stock used to track its sector but the relationship has weakened recently.
Technicals
| 10 EMA | $71.61 |
| 20 EMA | $73.35 |
| 50 EMA | $74.35 |
| EMA stack | BEARISH |
| RSI(14) | 36.1 |
| 52-week high distance | -29.06% |
| 52-week low distance | +130.65% |
Signals
| Market F&G | 46.9 |
| Bull% | 12.2% |
| OVTLYR status | SELL (5d) |
| Sector rank | #108 |
| Next earnings | 2026-11-17 (TNS, 59d) |
MarketSmith metrics - our compute
RS Rating
10.3
ADR%
3.2
RMV (tight)
100.0
Ext (ATR>20EMA)
-2.0
Rel Vol
195.0%
U/D 50d
0.93
U/D 25d
0.72
Accum/Dist 25d
4 / 8
EPS YoY
+645.0%
LoD dist
2.0
Off 52w High
30.9%
Above 52w Low
66.9%
1W / 1M
-3.1 / -10.2
Avg $Vol 50d
72.3M
Mkt Cap (B)
19.3
Trend 8/8
no
Leads Group
no
Sector XLB
-1.9% 1W
Base len (VCP)
10wk (5/8)
Coil (base shape)
85TVPX
not available: revenue(no EDGAR qtrs=1 fact)
What do these abbreviations mean?
- RS Rating
- - IBD-style relative strength vs SPY (weighted 3/6/9/12-mo). 70+ = leaders pool, 80+ = strong.
- ADR%
- - average daily range over 20 days. 4%+ = the fast movers the playbook prefers (selection order, not a gate).
- RMV (tight)
- - Relative Measured Volatility, 15 bars, scaled 0-100. <15 = tight coiled base (green), <35 moderate, high = loose/expanding - not a base right now.
- Ext (ATR>20EMA)
- - how many ATRs price sits above its 20-EMA. ≤1 = in value (green), >2 = extended/chasing (red) - prefer a pullback.
- Rel Vol
- - latest volume vs the 50-day average. 100% = normal; 140%+ = breakout confirmation.
- U/D 50d / 25d
- - up-day vs down-day volume over the window. 1.1+ = net accumulation (institutions buying); under 0.9 on the 25d = net selling.
- Accum/Dist 25d
- - heavy-volume up days vs heavy-volume down days in the last 25 sessions (close moved 0.2%+ on above-average volume). The institutional-participation footprint; 5+ distribution days = O'Neil caution line.
- LoD dist
- - close distance above the day low in % of ATR (100 = one full ATR off the low). High = strong close.
- Off/Above 52w
- - trend-template legs: within 25% of the 52-week high, at least 25% above the 52-week low.
- Trend 8/8
- - all 8 Minervini Trend Template criteria pass. Discovery floor, NOT an entry signal - entries come from the VCP pivot.
- Base len (VCP)
- - weeks since the VCP base started on the latest scan. 10wk+ bases carry the edge; short stacked bases test below random.
Fundamentals & valuation - reference, not entry inputs
P/E (TTM)
32.9
Fwd P/E
12.1
PEG
0.6
Price/Book
4.5
Profit margin
12.8%
ROE
9.7%
Debt/Equity
59.2
Rev growth
+23.3%
Analyst target
$77 (+13%)
Analyst rating
BUY
Institutional %
33.0%
Insider %
0.9%
Float %
36.3%
Valuation and analyst figures are Yahoo company stats (weekly refresh, ~3,000 larger names - blanks are honest gaps); logo, employees, website and IPO date are Massive company reference. Momentum/VCP entries do not use valuation - this card is context so you do not have to leave the page.
Company data - context read, not entry inputs
Industry rank
72 / 147
Industry
Specialty Chemicals
Float
103.7M
Float turnover 20d
1.0%
Avg $Vol 20d / 50d
80.1M / 72.3M
Days to cover
1.1
Short % float
-
Institutional %
33.0%
Weinstein stage
1
Float, short interest and institutional % come from Yahoo company stats, refreshed weekly for ~3,000 larger names - a blank means Yahoo does not publish the figure for this stock, not that it is zero. Dollar volume and float turnover are computed from our own price bars; industry rank from our rotation data; stage from the weekly chart.
Quarterly EPS - earnings acceleration
A dash in %Chg is deliberate: the year-ago figure was a loss, so a growth % would be meaningless. A dash in Sales means we have no revenue figure for that quarter - read it as a gap in our data, not as zero revenue.
| Quarter | EPS ($) | %Chg YoY | Sales ($M) | %Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar-25 | 0.42 | -41% | - | - |
| May-25 | 0.48 | - | - | - |
| May-25 | 0.48 | - | - | - |
| Aug-25 | 0.31 | -59% | 1,042.7 | - |
| Nov-25 | 0.62 | +35% | 1,173.0 | - |
| Feb-26 | 0.64 | +52% | 1,323.9 | - |
| May-26 | 1.28 | +167% | 1,760.0 | - |
| Aug-26 | 2.31 | +645% | 2,468.3 | +137% |
† = SEC carries this same fiscal quarter under a second period-end with a materially different figure (hover for it) - a restatement, merger recast or successor-period split; %Chg is blanked when the two are more than 15% apart. It fires only when the two period-ends DISAGREE, so it is a floor, not a guarantee that the rest of the column shares one basis · ‡ = the revenue concept changed from the previous quarter WITH A FIGURE (hover for both) - a blank row in between is skipped, as the eye does - a step at that row is a change of basis, not necessarily of business · EPS = Yahoo
eps_actual (the figure MarketSmith/Deepvue show) - whether a given quarter is GAAP or excludes a one-off follows the filing, so it can sit either side of another vendor's number; AAPL's Oct-24 row, the Sep-2024 fiscal quarter, is $0.97 here - GAAP, including the EU tax charge - where TradingView's year implies $1.64 · Sales ($M) = SEC EDGAR quarterly revenue (fiscal Q4 derived as FY minus 9-mo) · quarter = report month · %Chg blank = prior-year base under $0.05 (not meaningful).