Ratings Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A.

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SQM

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44.99 USD -1.79% Intraday chart for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. -6.15% -25.29%

Summary

  • Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.
  • From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental situation
  • According to Refinitiv, the company's ESG score for its industry is good.

Strengths

  • Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
  • The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
  • Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 8.92 and 7.01 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2025 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
  • The company has a low valuation given the cash flows generated by its activity.
  • This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
  • Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
  • The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
  • Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.

Weaknesses

  • As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
  • The company's earnings growth outlook lacks momentum and is a weakness.
  • For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
  • The sales outlook for the group was lowered in the last twelve months. This change in forecast points out a decline in activity as well as pessimistic analyses of the company.
  • For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
  • For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.
  • The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.
  • Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.
  • The price targets of analysts who cover the stock differ significantly. This implies difficulties in evaluating the company and its business.

Ratings chart - Surperformance

Chart ESG Refinitiv

Sector: Specialty Chemicals

1st Jan change Capi. Investor Rating ESG Refinitiv
-25.29% 13.09B
A-
+9.99% 62.67B
A-
-6.50% 45.97B
A-
+13.40% 39.51B
B+
+17.90% 26.04B
A-
+1.03% 17.71B
C+
-0.59% 17.25B
B+
+5.78% 15.44B
B+
-29.39% 14.54B
A-
-22.38% 13.14B
C+
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Consensus

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Business Predictability

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