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Can SQM take a bad year?
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. carries $3.65B of net debt at 2.59× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$3.65B
Net debt · as at FY2024 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.59×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.85× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 5.40×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 48%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
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- Total debtFY2024
- $6.10B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.46B
- Net debt
- $3.65B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.41B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.07B
- Debt / equity
- 1.18×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.33×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 48%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −73%
- Below its 52-week high
- −17%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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