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
$5.5B
34.81
$3.71
0.77
$1.64
1.27%
Price and volume
Market cap
$5.5B
Beta
0.77
52-week high
$138.82
52-week low
$82.60
Average daily volume
307K
Dividend rate
$1.64
Financial strength
Current ratio
4.39
Quick ratio
1.511
Long term debt to equity
0.606
Total debt to equity
0.606
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
44.17%
Interest coverage (TTM)
8.16%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
310.696
Gross margin (TTM)
34.88%
Net profit margin (TTM)
9.27%
Operating margin (TTM)
14.59%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
24.20%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$420,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
6.79%
Return on equity (TTM)
13.07%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
34.812
Price to revenue (TTM)
3.207
Price to book
4.34
Price to tangible book (TTM)
6.71
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
1,218.794
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
0.08%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
0.106
Dividend yield (TTM)
1.27%
Forward dividend yield
1.27%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
8.12%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
17.05%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
5.44%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
2.08%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
5.72%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
4.65%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
4.27%
What the Analysts think about SXT
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Sensient Technologies stock.
Analyst projections of the future price of Sensient Technologies stock.
Bulls say / Bears say
Sensient’s second quarter showed broad earnings acceleration: revenue rose 11.6%, operating income 32.9% and EPS 36.4%. Management raised 2026 GAAP EPS guidance to $4.10-$4.20 and now expects mid- to high-teens growth in adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS. (BioSpace)
The US shift from synthetic to natural colours could provide a multi-year growth runway. Sensient expects to invest up to $250m in expanded natural-colour capacity, while management said Color sales should grow at a high-teens rate in 2026. (PR Newswire, ROIC AI)
Innovation offers growth beyond colour: Sensient launched Amberferm Grow 288 and 289 for dairy-culture producers, with claimed yield and acidification benefits as demand strains capacity. That gives its Flavors & Extracts business another route to win customers, not just the dye-conversion cycle. (Nutritional Outlook)
The growth plan is cash-intensive. Management expects 2026 capital expenditure of $150m-$170m, likely near the top end; second-quarter operating cash flow was $48m and net debt to credit-adjusted EBITDA was 2.3 times, limiting near-term financial flexibility. (ROIC AI)
Second-quarter profitability was helped by about $5m of tariff refunds, worth roughly $0.09 of EPS, and management expects no significant further refunds. It also expects Color’s third-quarter EBITDA margin to be similar to 24.7% a year earlier, so the exceptional margin uplift may not persist. (ROIC AI)
The shares look demanding after their rally: Simply Wall St reported a P/E of 33.3 times versus 23.8 times for chemicals peers, while a recent analyst review said much of the natural-colour upside was already priced in. Any delay in reformulation or weaker execution could therefore cause a de-rating. (Simply Wall St, Seeking Alpha)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 16 Sept 2026.
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Fund name | Fund size | $SXT weighting |
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iShares S&P SmallCap 600$IDP6 | $3.2B | 0.31% |
iShares S&P Small Cap 600£ISP6 | £2.4B | 0.31% |
SPDR Russell 2000 US Small Cap€R2US | €4.8B | 0.18% |
iShares MSCI USA Small Cap ESG Enhanced CTB€SXRG | €2.8B | 0.12% |
iShares MSCI USA Small Cap CTB Enhanced ESG£CUS1 | £2.4B | 0.12% |
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