Sensient Technologies/$SXT
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About Sensient Technologies
Sensient Technologies Corp manufactures and markets natural and synthetic colors, flavors, and other specialty ingredients. Sensient's offerings are predominantly applied to consumer-facing products, including food and beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and personal care industries. Its principal products are flavors, flavor enhancers, ingredients, extracts, and bionutrients, essential oils, dehydrated vegetables and other food ingredients, natural and synthetic food and beverage colors, and others. The company's reportable segments are: Flavors & Extracts, which derive key revenue, Color, Asia Pacific, and Corporate and Other. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from North America, followed by Europe, Asia-Pacific, and other regions.
- Ticker
- $SXT
- Sector
- Materials
- Primary listing
- NYSE
- Employees
- 4,070
- Headquarters
- Milwaukee, United States
- Website
- www.sensient.com
SXT Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$5B
29.62
$3.97
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$1.64
1.39%
Price and volume
Market cap
$5B
52-week high
$138.82
52-week low
$82.60
Average daily volume
385K
Dividend rate
$1.64
Financial strength
Current ratio
3.971
Quick ratio
1.289
Long term debt to equity
0.614
Total debt to equity
0.614
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
41.18%
Interest coverage (TTM)
8.55%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
332.338
Gross margin (TTM)
35.56%
Net profit margin (TTM)
9.69%
Operating margin (TTM)
15.42%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
23.75%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$430,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
7.19%
Return on equity (TTM)
13.73%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
29.621
Price to revenue (TTM)
2.849
Price to book
3.87
Price to tangible book (TTM)
5.9
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
-284.202
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
-0.35%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
-0.414
Dividend yield (TTM)
1.39%
Forward dividend yield
1.39%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
9.54%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
21.43%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
6.27%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
2.30%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
9.31%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
4.59%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
-37.00%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
-9.23%
What the Analysts think about SXT
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Sensient Technologies stock.
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Bulls say / Bears say
Sensient is getting tangible growth from the shift to natural colours: Color revenue grew 17% in local currency in Q3, with strong volume growth, and its Q2 filing links higher food-colour volumes partly to conversions from synthetic colours. (Business Wire, SEC)
Earnings momentum is strengthening: Q3 local-currency adjusted operating income rose 18.6% and adjusted EPS 17.7%, prompting Sensient to raise the 2026 GAAP EPS floor to $4.15. (Business Wire)
Growth is not confined to colours: Flavours & Extracts and Asia Pacific both grew revenue and operating income in Q3, with Asia Pacific revenue up 14.8% in local currency. (Business Wire)
Reported profit growth has some temporary support: Q2 tariff refunds added about $5 million, or $0.09 per share, and Sensient said it expected no further refunds; Q3 comparisons also benefited from the absence of prior-year portfolio-plan costs. (SEC, Business Wire)
The natural-colour opportunity is capital-intensive: Sensient planned $150–170 million of 2026 capital expenditure, around $250 million of natural-colour investment over several years, and higher working-capital needs, while leverage was expected to rise into the mid-to-upper twos. (StockAnalysis)
Raw-material inflation and trade uncertainty could squeeze margins: Sensient said higher input costs were already offsetting some margin gains and warned that tariff costs could hurt profits or demand if pricing cannot fully offset them. (SEC)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 30 Oct 2026.
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Funds containing SXT
AllUSDEURGBP
Fund name | Fund size | $SXT weighting |
|---|---|---|
iShares S&P SmallCap 600$IDP6 | $3.2B | 0.32% |
iShares S&P Small Cap 600£ISP6 | $3.2B | 0.32% |
SPDR Russell 2000 US Small Cap£R2SC | $5.3B | 0.19% |
SPDR Russell 2000 US Small Cap€R2US | $5.3B | 0.19% |
iShares MSCI USA Small Cap ESG Enhanced CTB€SXRG | $3.2B | 0.12% |
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