Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) Competitors

Vale (NYSE:VALE) and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE:SQM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of VALE or SQM?

21.9% of Vale shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.4% of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, VALE or SQM?

Vale has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is VALE or SQM a better dividend stock?

Vale pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Vale pays out 52.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays out -10.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Is VALE or SQM more profitable?

Vale has a net margin of 16.15% compared to Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's net margin of -6.74%. Vale's return on equity of 17.38% beat Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Vale	16.15%	17.38%	7.62%
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile	-6.74%	16.12%	7.15%

Do analysts prefer VALE or SQM?

Vale presently has a consensus price target of $13.26, suggesting a potential upside of 31.58%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a consensus price target of $45.56, suggesting a potential upside of 3.93%. Given Vale's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Vale is more favorable than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Vale	0 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.30
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer VALE or SQM?

Vale received 420 more outperform votes than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.94% of users gave Vale an outperform vote while only 56.04% of users gave Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Vale	Outperform Votes 791 60.94%	Underperform Votes 507 39.06%
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile	Outperform Votes 371 56.04%	Underperform Votes 291 43.96%

Does the media favor VALE or SQM?

In the previous week, Vale had 8 more articles in the media than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Vale and 1 mentions for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Vale's score of 1.40 indicating that Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Vale	7 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Which has higher valuation and earnings, VALE or SQM?

Vale has higher revenue and earnings than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vale, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Vale	$38.06B	1.20	$7.98B	$1.44	7.00
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile	$4.53B	2.77	$923.19M	-$1.40	-31.32

Summary

Vale beats Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.