Materials / Specialty ChemicalsUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Market cap

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

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Forward P/E29

P25 10.4P50 15.8P75 24

Trailing P/E34.9

P25 15.7P50 22.1P75 35.3

ROE12.5

P25 -20.7P50 0.8P75 14.1

ROIC9.2

P25 -9.3P50 3.2P75 11.3

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All SXT market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000310142
Company name	Sensient Technologies Corporation
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	81725T100
Employees	4,070
Employees Change	56%
Employees Change Percent	1.4
Enterprise value	$5.8B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Specialty Chemicals
Isin	US81725T1007
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$5B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$118
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	406,786.24x
Sector	Materials
Sic	2860
Symbol	SXT
Website	https://www.sensient.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	2.87%
EV Earnings	39.95x
EV Sales Forward	6.33x
EV/EBIT	24.74x
EV/EBITDA	19.57x
EV/FCF	263.11x
EV/Sales	3.48x
FCF yield	0.44%
Forward P/E	28.97x
P/B ratio	4.11x
P/E ratio	34.86x
P/S ratio	3.04x
PE Ratio10 Y	27.94x
PE Ratio3 Y	28.49x
PE Ratio5 Y	28.06x
PEG ratio	1.66x
PS Forward	5.52x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	14.06%
EBITDA Margin	17.78%
FCF margin	1.32%
Gross margin	34.18%
Gross Profit	$565.9M
Gross Profit Growth	9.81%
Gross Profit Growth Q	14.3%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	5%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	5.72%
Net Income	$144.2M
Net Income Growth	12.49%
Net Income Growth Q	28.17%
Net Income Growth Years	2%
Net Income Growth3 Y	1.61%
Net Income Growth5 Y	3.68%
Pretax Margin	11.49%
Profit Margin	8.71%
Profit Per Employee	$35,429
Profitable Years	32
ROA	6.64
Roa5y	6.2
ROCE	11.28
ROE	12.46
Roe5y	12.01
ROIC	9.16
Roic5y	8.89

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	8.11%
Cagr15y	10.32%
Cagr1y	27.45%
Cagr20y	11.52%
Cagr3y	18.26%
Cagr5y	9%
Div CAGR10	4.27%
Div CAGR3	0%
Div CAGR5	1.01%
EPS Growth	12.26
EPS Growth Q	28.4
EPS Growth Years	2
EPS Growth3 Y	1.31
EPS Growth5 Y	3.56
FCF Growth	-67.8%
FCF Growth5 Y	-32.29%
OCF Growth	-7.41%
OCF Growth10 Y	-1.52%
OCF Growth3 Y	131.59%
OCF Growth5 Y	-10.19%
Revenue Growth	5.8x
Revenue Growth Q	11.09x
Revenue Growth Quarters	15x
Revenue Growth Years	6x
Revenue Growth3 Y	4.51x
Revenue Growth5 Y	4.3x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.76
Assets	$2.3B
Cash	$38.5M
Current Assets	$1.1B
Current Liabilities	$223.7M
Debt	$767.8M
Debt EBITDA	$2.49
Debt Equity	$0.63
Debt FCF	$35.07
Equity	$1.2B
Interest Coverage	7.84
Liabilities	$1.1B
Long Term Assets	$1.2B
Long Term Liabilities	$845M
Net Cash	$-729.2M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-14.49
Net Debt EBITDA	$2.48
Net Debt Equity	$0.6
Net Debt FCF	$33.31
Tangible Book Value	$772.6M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$18.25
WACC	7.87

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	5.01
Inventory Turnover	1.7
Net Working Capital	$859.5M
Quick ratio	1.7
Working Capital	$897.8M
Working Capital Turnover	$1.99

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-0.49%
Dividend Growth	0%
Dividend Growth Years	0%
Dividend per share	$1.64
Dividend Years	56
Dividend Yield	1.39%
Ex Div Date	2026-05-11
Last Dividend	$0.41
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	48.37%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	118.06%
1Y total return	27.43%
200-day SMA	99.2
3Y total return	65.42%
50-day SMA	97.79
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	53.84%
All Time High	129.4
All Time High Change	-8.62%
All Time High Date	2026-04-28
All Time Low	1.46
All Time Low Change	7,979.29%
All Time Low Date	1980-12-04
ATR	4.71
Beta	0.79
Beta1y	0.83
Beta2y	0.74
Ch YTD	25.81
High	119.7
High52	129.4
High52 Date	2026-04-28
High52ch	-8.62%
Low	117.5
Low52	82.6
Low52 Date	2026-02-13
Low52ch	43.1%
Ma50ch	20.87%
Price vs 200-day SMA	19.16%
RSI	65.94
RSI Monthly	64.47
RSI Weekly	62.73
Sharpe ratio	0.72x
Sortino ratio	1.56
Total Return	0.9%
Tr YTD	26.36
Tr15y	336.37%
Tr1m	28.24%
Tr1w	4.67%
Tr3m	21.26%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	3
Analyst Count Top	1
Analyst Price Target Top	$125
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.83
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	-3.49
Earnings Revenue Estimate	408,948,504x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	4.24x
Operating Income	$232.8M
Operating Income Growth	14.87
Operating Income Growth Q	18.55
Operating Income Growth3 Y	6.16
Operating Income Growth5 Y	5.9
Operating margin	14.06
Price target	$121
Price Target Change	$2.37
Price Target Change Top	$5.75

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	41,865,807%
Float Percent	98.35%
Net Borrowing	46,487,000
Shares Insiders	1.62%
Shares Institutions	95.51%
Shares Out	42,568,960
Shares Qo Q	0%
Shares Yo Y	0.49%
Short Float	2.59%
Short Ratio	3.64
Short Shares	2.55

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$7.1M
Average Volume	527,122.45x
Bv Per Share	28.79
CAPEX	$-101.3M
Ch10y	77.83
Ch15y	222.1
Ch1m	28.24
Ch1w	4.67
Ch1y	25.32
Ch20y	465.6
Ch3m	21.26
Ch3y	55.94
Ch5y	39.32
Ch6m	26.87
Change	0.3%
Change From Open	-0.31
Close	117.9
Days Gap	0.61
Depreciation Amortization	61,562,000
Dollar Volume	42,368,671.8
Earnings Date	2026-04-24
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$232.8M
EBITDA	$294.4M
EPS	$3.39
F Score	5
FCF	$21.9M
FCF EV Yield	0.38x
FCF Per Share	$0.51
Financing CF	-28,597,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,882
Graham Number	46.86171
Graham Upside	-60.35
Income Tax	$46M
Investing CF	-98,319,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-24
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Date	1998-05-26
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-13
Lynch Fair Value	$16.95
Lynch Upside	-85.66
Ma150	95.88
Ma150ch	23.28%
Ma20	108.6
Ma20ch	8.88%
Net CF	5,968,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-24
Open	118.6
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	229.8
P OCF Ratio	40.85
Payment Date	2026-06-01
Position In Range	32.41
Ppne	550,555,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$17.09
Ptbv Ratio	6.51
Relative Volume	0.68x
Revenue	1,655,620,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.9x
Share Based Comp	14,822,000
Tax By Revenue	2.78x
Tax Rate	24.18%
Tr20y	785.25%
Tr6m	27.98%
Us State	Wisconsin
Volume	358,449
Z Score	4.99

Fast facts

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Forward P/E

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

SXT dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+1.4%

$1.64 annual per share

Payout ratio

+48.4%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+1.0%

0 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+0.9%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-05-11

Performance

SXT stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns SXT?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+95.5%

Float: +98.3% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+1.6%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

SXT momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

65.9

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+19.2%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.79

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.72

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

SXT vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
LIN	Linde plc	228B	32.7x	6.6x	12.2%	+4.5%	+11.2%	बेचें
NEM	Newmont Corporation	124.4B	15.1x	5.0x	26.2%	+16.2%	+118.6%	मज़बूत ख़रीद

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