Chemical & Mining Co. of Chile Inc. SQM
What this company does
Written from the business description in CHEMICAL & MINING CO OF CHILE INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 22 April 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +18.4% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +19.8%.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Each USD of equity produced 14 cents of profit this year.
EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.
| Metric | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 4.5 | 7.5 | 10.7 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.7 |
| Operating income $B | 1.1 | 2.8 | 5.5 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| EBITDA $B | 1.4 | 3.1 | 5.8 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| Income tax $B | 0.3 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Net income $B | 0.7 | 0.9 | 3.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.3 | −1.3 | 3.2 | 0.4 | −0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 2.40 | 3.23 | 13.68 | 2.10 | 0.63 | 1.67 | 1.67 | 1.62 | 1.06 | 0.84 |
| Dividend / sh $ | · | 1.90 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | 10 | 159 | 57 | 98 | 135 | 119 | 125 | 87 | 144 | 58 |
| ROE % | 14.3 | 19.8 | 96.7 | 22.1 | 7.8 | 13.3 | 20.6 | 19.3 | 12.4 | · |
| Shares out B | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0.01 | · | · | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
This company against its peers
Reconciled in 11 of 19 fiscal years. 47 checks could not be computed.