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6. China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (SNPMF)

• YTD Total Return: 7.39%

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, (OTCMKTS:SNPMF) is the only Chinese company on this list. That said, you should be able to buy the stock in the U.S. through major brokerage firms.

SNPMF stock is still down 45% from its peak all the way back in 2014. It started bottoming out in 2020 and has been in a pretty stagnant long-term trajectory since then with some ups and downs. The reason it is up so much YTD is also because of a recovery from its decline from July to November last year.

Sinopec’s fate is linked almost entirely to China’s macroeconomics. The Chinese stock market has been lagging behind those in the West. Companies in China increased their production capabilities in the COVID stimulus era but by the time they were done with it, they’d been faced with lower export orders and a domestic population that hadn’t generated much demand either. Not only that, the Chinese government has also been conservative with stimulus. We’ve seen some stimulus efforts recently, but they are nowhere near what is needed to cause a sustained rebound in Chinese markets.