5 Largest Fertilizer Companies in the World

4. Sociedad Quimica y Minera (NYSE:SQM)

Market Capitalization: $25.5 billion

Santiago, Chile-based Sociedad Quimica y Minera (NYSE:SQM) is a global mining company operating in Chile with leading positions across five business lines: Specialty Plant Nutrition; Iodine and Derivatives; Lithium and Derivatives; Potassium and Solar Salts.

SQM leverages its caliche ore deposits to produce a wide range of nitrate-based products for agricultural uses, including potassium nitrate, sodium nitrate, sodium potassium nitrate, potassium sulphate and potassium chloride fertilizers. The company sold approximately 2.1 million tons of these fertilizers in 2021.