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Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile (XSGO:SQM-B) 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio : -1.70% (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio?

Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.

5-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past five years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from five years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's current 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio was -1.70%.

XSGO:SQM-B's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked better than
51.89% of 979 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: -1.9 vs XSGO:SQM-B: -1.70

Competitive Comparison of Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio 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 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio falls into.


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Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Calculation

This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from five years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with least-square regression based on the latest six years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).

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Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile (XSGO:SQM-B) 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation

A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.


Be Aware

Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.


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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 also sells lithium concentrate from a joint venture hard rock lithium project in Australia and expanding its lithium refining assets in China.

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