Company: SQM
Filing Date: 2025-12-15
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0000909037-25-000048
Chunk: 153

Company: CHEMICAL & MINING CO OF CHILE INC
Filing Date: 2025-12-15
Form: 6-K
Chunk 153
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701) SQM Iberian S.A. (1,677) (1,677) Orcoma Estudios SpA 2,121 2,121 Total Other reserves 10,655 10,175 20.5 Dividend policies As required by Article 79 of the Chilean Companies Act, unless otherwise decided by unanimous vote of the holders of issued and subscribed shares, a publicly traded corporation must annually distribute a cash dividend to its shareholders, prorated based on their shares or the proportion established in the company’s bylaws if there are preferred shares, with at least 30% of our consolidated net income for each year. Dividend policy for commercial year 2025 The company’s dividend policy for the 2025 business year was agreed upon by the Board of Directors on April 24, 2025. On that occasion, the following was decided: (a) Distribute and pay a dividend to the respective shareholders as a percentage of the profits representing 30% of profits for 2025. (b) Notwithstanding the aforementioned, the percentage indicated in (a) above may be increased if the Company’s Board of Directors deems that such increase does not materially and adversely affect the Company’s ability to make its investments and to comply with the estimates on future cash use. (c) Distribute and pay dividends in 2025 and the first quarter of 2026, dividends, which will be charged against the aforementioned final dividend. (d) In the ordinary meeting to be held in 2026, the Company’s Board of Directors will propose a final dividend discounting the amount of dividends previously distributed, considering that it does not materially and negatively affect the Company’s ability to make its investments, meet its obligations and, in general, comply with the investment and financing policy approved by the ordinary shareholders’ meeting. (e) Any remaining amount from the net income from 2025 can be retained and used to finance the Company’s own operations or one or more of its investment projects, notwithstanding a possible distribution of dividends charged to accumulated earnings that might be approved by the shareholders’ meeting or the possible future capitalization of all or part of it. (f) The payment of additional dividends is not being considered. It must be expressly stated that this dividends policy details the intention of the Company’s Board of Directors and its fulfillment depends on the actual net income obtained, as well as on the results indicated by the projections the Notes to the Consolidated Interim Financial Statements September 30, 2025