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Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile (Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile) Piotroski F-Score : 3 (As of Apr. 30, 2024)


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What is Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile Piotroski F-Score?

Warning Sign:

Piotroski F-Score of 3 is low, which usually implies poor business operation.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

The historical rank and industry rank for Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

SQM' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3   Med: 6   Max: 8
Current: 3

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile was 8. The lowest was 3. And the median was 6.


Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Piotroski F-Score can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile Piotroski F-Score Chart

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score
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Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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Competitive Comparison of Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Piotroski F-Score

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Piotroski F-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Piotroski F-Score data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Piotroski F-Score falls into.


How is the Piotroski F-Score calculated?

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

This Year (Dec23) TTM:Last Year (Dec22) TTM:
Net Income was 749.895 + 580.227 + 479.368 + 203.177 = $2,013 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -618.811 + 608.052 + 419.927 + -587.461 = $-178 Mil.
Revenue was 2263.85 + 2051.741 + 1840.26 + 1311.639 = $7,467 Mil.
Gross Profit was 1065.6 + 855.088 + 753.64 + 400.727 = $3,075 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec22)
to the end of this year (Dec23) was
(10819.101 + 11167.935 + 10561.94 + 10970.555 + 11705.57) / 5 = $11045.0202 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec22) was $10,819 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $3,262 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $5,866 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $2,351 Mil.
Net Income was 796.119 + 859.261 + 1099.906 + 1151.024 = $3,906 Mil.

Revenue was 2019.818 + 2598.812 + 2958.348 + 3133.599 = $10,711 Mil.
Gross Profit was 1164.657 + 1297.433 + 1632.664 + 1641.87 = $5,737 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec21)
to the end of last year (Dec22) was
(7180.201 + 8496.297 + 9279.197 + 10253.248 + 10819.101) / 5 = $9205.6088 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec21) was $7,180 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $2,424 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $6,992 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $3,052 Mil.

*Note: If the latest quarterly/semi-annual/annual total assets data is 0, then we will use previous quarterly/semi-annual/annual data for all the items in the balance sheet.

Profitability

Question 1. Return on Assets (ROA)

Net income before extraordinary items for the year divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's current Net Income (TTM) was 2,013. ==> Positive ==> Score 1.

Question 2. Cash Flow Return on Assets (CFROA)

Net cash flow from operating activities (operating cash flow) divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -178. ==> Negative ==> Score 0.

Question 3. Change in Return on Assets

Compare this year's return on assets (1) to last year's return on assets.

Score 1 if it's higher, 0 if it's lower.

ROA (This Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec22)
=2012.667/10819.101
=0.18602904

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec21)
=3906.31/7180.201
=0.54403909

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's return on assets of this year was 0.18602904. Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's return on assets of last year was 0.54403909. ==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.

Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)

Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)

Score 1 if CFROA > ROA, 0 if CFROA <= ROA.

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's current Net Income (TTM) was 2,013. Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -178. ==> -178 <= 2,013 ==> CFROA <= ROA ==> Score 0.

Funding

Question 5. Change in Gearing or Leverage

Compare this year's gearing (long-term debt divided by average total assets) to last year's gearing.

Score 0 if this year's gearing is higher, 1 otherwise.

Gearing (This Year: Dec23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec22 to Dec23
=3261.969/11045.0202
=0.29533391

Gearing (Last Year: Dec22)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec21 to Dec22
=2424.031/9205.6088
=0.2633211

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's gearing of this year was 0.29533391. Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's gearing of last year was 0.2633211. ==> Last year is lower than this year ==> Score 0.

Question 6. Change in Working Capital (Liquidity)

Compare this year's current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) to last year's current ratio.

Score 1 if this year's current ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower

Current Ratio (This Year: Dec23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=5866.141/2351.133
=2.49502729

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec22)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=6991.509/3051.547
=2.29113594

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's current ratio of this year was 2.49502729. Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's current ratio of last year was 2.29113594. ==> This year's current ratio is higher. ==> Score 1.

Question 7. Change in Shares in Issue

Compare the number of shares in issue this year, to the number in issue last year.

Score 0 if there is larger number of shares in issue this year, 1 otherwise.

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's number of shares in issue this year was 285.638. Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's number of shares in issue last year was 285.638. ==> There is smaller number of shares in issue this year, or the same. ==> Score 1.

Efficiency

Question 8. Change in Gross Margin

Compare this year's gross margin (Gross Profit divided by sales) to last year's.

Score 1 if this year's gross margin is higher, 0 if it's lower.

Gross Margin (This Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=3075.055/7467.49
=0.41179232

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=5736.624/10710.577
=0.53560364

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's gross margin of this year was 0.41179232. Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's gross margin of last year was 0.53560364. ==> Last year's gross margin is higher ==> Score 0.

Question 9. Change in asset turnover

Compare this year's asset turnover (total sales for the year divided by total assets at the beginning of the year) to last year's asset turnover ratio.

Score 1 if this year's asset turnover ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower

Asset Turnover (This Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of This Year (Dec22)
=7467.49/10819.101
=0.69021354

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec21)
=10710.577/7180.201
=1.49168206

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's asset turnover of this year was 0.69021354. Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's asset turnover of last year was 1.49168206. ==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.

Evaluation

Piotroski F-Score= Que. 1+ Que. 2+ Que. 3+Que. 4+Que. 5+Que. 6+Que. 7+Que. 8+Que. 9
=1+0+0+0+0+1+1+0+0
=3

Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile  (NYSE:SQM) Piotroski F-Score Explanation

The developer of the system is Joseph D. Piotroski is relatively unknown accounting professor who shuns publicity and rarely gives interviews.

He graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in accounting in 1989, received an M.B.A. from Indiana University in 1994. Five years later, in 1999, after earning a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Michigan, he became an associate professor of accounting at the University of Chicago.

In 2000, he wrote a research paper called "Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers" (pdf).

He wanted to see if he can develop a system (using a simple nine-point scoring system) that can increase the returns of a strategy of investing in low price to book (referred to in the paper as high book to market) value companies.

What he found was something that exceeded his most optimistic expectations.

Buying only those companies that scored highest (8 or 9) on his nine-point scale, or F-Score as he called it, over the 20 year period from 1976 to 1996 led to an average out-performance over the market of 13.4%.

Even more impressive were the results of a strategy of investing in the highest F-Score companies (8 or 9) and shorting companies with the lowest F-Score (0 or 1).

Over the same period from 1976 to 1996 (20 years) this strategy led to an average yearly return of 23%, substantially outperforming the average S&P 500 index return of 15.83% over the same period.


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Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile (Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile) Business Description

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Address
El Trovador 4285, 6th Floor, Las Condes, Santiago, CHL
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 is also developing a hard rock lithium project in Australia and is growing its lithium refining assets in China.
Executives
Sailingstone Capital Partners Llc 10 percent owner 100 WAUGH DRIVE, SUITE 600, HOUSTON TX 77007
Sailingstone Holdings Llc 10 percent owner 1 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 3050, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Mackenzie B Davis 10 percent owner 1 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 3050, SAN FRANCISCO CA 941111
Settles Kenneth L Jr 10 percent owner 1 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 3050, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111