Is the price fair?
What SQM's price assumes
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. trades at 31.5× earnings against 27.9× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, more expensive than its own group.
31.5
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 27.9 · 1.13× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 2.16
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.5%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 3.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +22%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +22% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −5.4% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 1.95
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 8.80
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 2.59
- Basic Materials median P/E159 names
- 22.3
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E37 names
- 27.9
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $303M
- Market capitalisation
- $20.9B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +17%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −5.4%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.