Sociedad Quimica y Minera (ADR) (NYSE:SQM)

earnings are up and with the look into alternative fuels their plant nutrition products shuold perform well

Experiment time... I will pick whatever stocks that are on the cold 5 star list on the last trading day of each month. There is no research involved other what is on the cold 5 star list at the end of each month. Each pick will be for one year. Lets see where this goes...

WOOH!

Look at it climb~

It's numbers speak for itself. They are producing what we need now and will need years from now.

broke into an uptrend iin late february

If you eat, you should pick this!

With world population growing, food consumption must increase.

Soil depletion world wide requires us to use fairly large quantities of fertilizer

Fertilizer compnay in Chile also is world's largest producer of lithium.

I chose this one because it was on the Hot 5 list.

It is good to be a company with highly prized and difficult to produce materials. The expertise of this company in producing these materials makes it a desireable purchase. Its products are sold in over 100 countries through its worldwide distribution network. Its products are divided into five main categories: specialty plant nutrition products, iodine and derivatives, lithium and derivatives; industrial chemicals, and other products. In January 2006, it acquired the iodine and iodine derivatives business of the DSM Group. On January 24, 2006, the Company's subsidiary, Soquimich European Holding B.V., along with Nutrisi Holding N.V. acquired interest in Fertilizantes Naturales S.A., increasing their ownership to 66.67%, respectively. In October 2006, the Company sold its wholly owned Mexican subsidiary, Fertilizantes Olmeca y SQM S.A. de C.V. to Yara International A.S.A.

all products from this company are used in medicine

Integrated producers of potassium nitrate, iodine and lithium carbonate. It also produces other specialty plant nutrition products, iodine and lithium derivatives, and certain industrial chemicals, including industrial nitrates. Its products are sold in over 100 countries.

Solid near term fertilizer outlook - Amazing long term perspectives on lithium

The future of car batteries is all about Li-Ion, and these guys are rocking that sector.

Riding with Jim Cramer on BULL pick SQM

Looks good but I may be getting in with the price a bit high. Over the long term should go up.

Fool article. Lithium and agrar-fertilizer.....a little bit high on valuation with 22 PE, but thats a story ervery fund manager needs.

This is a soft pick here and I'm not sure yet if I'll play it with real money. It's base is chemicals for premium fertilizers (about half of their current revenues), and I think that this base is fairly solid although they themselves describe those prices a volatile in their SEC posting. Lithium is of course the big growth possibility (last reported at 12% of revenues) but is also subject to a large wild card: China. Odds are Chinese companies (like CBAK) will produce the world's Li batteries and as per SQM's report:
"Currently there are several projects for the expansion of lithium carbonate production capacity being developed by Chinese competitors. As there is limited information on the status of these projects we cannot make accurate projections regarding their capacities and the dates in which they will become operational. However, should these projects be developed during a short period of time, we believe there could be negative impacts on prices that could have a significant impact in the Company's financial condition or results of operations."

China has over 2 billion pounds of Lithium reserves (1 billion in the Jiajika lithium deposit alone if this (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4174/is_20040713/ai_n12932592) article is to be believed.

Still it will likely be a few years until those reserves can be fully exploited and Li battery demand will likely outpace the development of those supplies, so I think that SQM will benefit for the four year time period anyway.

Lithium!

Dispite a big run up there is much room to go as lithum carbonate based batteries continue to explode