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Makes flavors, colors and fragrance/extract ingredients used by food, beverage and personal-care manufacturers.
Makes flavors, colors and fragrance/extract ingredients used by food, beverage and personal-care manufacturers.
Sells ingredients made to each customer's recipe, so once a flavor or color is qualified into a product it tends to be reordered for years. Buyers are makers of food, drinks, drugs and cosmetics, usually on direct contracts, and colors are also sold for pharmaceutical coatings and cosmetics.
Moat: narrow (IP / patents, switching costs, customer qualification). Formulas are qualified into customer recipes; natural-colors leadership is hard to replicate quickly.
Headquarters: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US · Founded: 1882 · Employees: 4,070
Size Sensient Technologies (SXT) is a United States Consumer Staples company (Food: Specialty/Candy) with a market value of $5.07B, the 1177th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $119.19 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares gained 0.8%, against +5.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 10th lowest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 9.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.0%); the operating margin is 14.5% (peer median 9.6%).
Valuation It trades at 25.0× forward earnings against a peer median of 15.9× (3rd most expensive of 21).
Capital Return on invested capital runs 1.3 points above its cost of capital (8.6% WACC).
Short interest Short interest is 2.7% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).
Next results Next results expected around 5 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $1.75B | $1.61B | $1.56B | $1.46B | $1.44B |
| Revenue growth | — | +4% | +7% | +1% | — |
| Gross profit | $614M | $539M | $507M | $460M | $489M |
| EBITDA | $317M | $268M | $252M | $213M | $249M |
| Net income | $169M | $134M | $125M | $93.4M | $141M |
| Free cash flow | -$17.5M | $38.4M | $97.9M | $81.8M | -$67.3M |
| Capital expenditure | $137M | $89.4M | $59.2M | $87.9M | $79.3M |
| Total debt | $790M | $749M | $670M | $695M | $687M |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensient Technologies SXT | $5.07B | +1% | +10% | 15% | 25.0× | n/a |
| International Flavors & Fragrances IFF | $20.7B | +2% | -17% | 11% | 23.4× | 17.9% |
| Givaudan GIVN.SW | $45.8B | +47% | -2% | 18% | 34.0× | 10.6% |
| Symrise SY1.DE | $15.1B | +30% | -1% | 12% | 24.8× | 8.1% |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | SXT | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | -9.7% | +8.0% | 3rd lowest of 21 |
| 6-month return | +0.8% | +5.0% | 10th lowest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -14.1% | -16.5% | 10th highest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +9.5% | +7.0% | 9th highest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 14.5% | 9.6% | 5th highest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 25.0× | 15.9× | 3rd most expensive of 21 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | +1.3 pp | +2.6 pp | 8th lowest of 21 |
| EV / EBITDA | 18.4× | 9.6× | 3rd most expensive of 18 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 2.4× | 1.1× | 8th most indebted of 18 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensient Technologies SXT | United States | $5.07B | +1% | +10% | 15% | 25.0× | n/a | n/a |
| Yamazaki Baking 2212.T | Japan | $5.08B | +21% | +5% | 5% | 18.0× | -3.3% | +5.3% |
| Angel Yeast 600298.SS | China | $4.97B | +2% | +15% | 11% | 19.1× | 4.1% | +13.4% |
| Aak AAK.ST | Sweden | $4.88B | -30% | -1% | 10% | 13.6× | -6.0% | +10.5% |
| Balchem BCPC | United States | $5.54B | +8% | +9% | 22% | 30.9× | 14.5% | +8.1% |
| Nissin Foods 2897.T | Japan | $5.73B | +9% | +5% | 6% | 17.9× | n/a | n/a |
| Ingredion INGR | United States | $5.78B | -15% | -1% | 12% | 9.7× | -7.8% | +3.8% |
| Anjoy Foods 2648.HK | Hong Kong | $3.83B | -20% | +24% | 12% | 11.6× | -2.9% | +17.5% |
| Toyo Suisan Kaisha 2875.T | Japan | $6.74B | -4% | +7% | 17% | 14.5× | -5.0% | +9.5% |
| Campbell's CPB | United States | $6.90B | +11% | -5% | 11% | 13.7× | -3.6% | +2.8% |
| Post POST | United States | $3.65B | -19% | +6% | 10% | 11.8× | -2.1% | +7.4% |
| Vita Coco COCO | United States | $3.56B | -13% | +26% | 20% | 30.2× | 8.4% | +14.4% |
| Ashland ASH | United States | $3.51B | +39% | +2% | 7% | 18.0× | 12.3% | -2.5% |
| Meiji 2269.T | Japan | $7.35B | +14% | +4% | 8% | 17.2× | n/a | n/a |
| Jinan Shengquan Group Share 605589.SS | China | $3.46B | -30% | +12% | 8% | 19.7× | n/a | n/a |
| Orion 271560.KS | South Korea | $3.45B | -18% | +11% | 17% | 9.9× | -17.1% | +8.4% |
| Lamb Weston LW | United States | $7.61B | +31% | +3% | 10% | 16.6× | 4.0% | +12.5% |
| Tate & Lyle TATE.L | United Kingdom | $3.34B | +53% | +16% | 9% | 15.2× | 10.8% | +10.6% |
| Darling Ingredients DAR | United States | $7.92B | -20% | +16% | 9% | 7.3× | 9.0% | +11.4% |
| Greencore GNC.L | United Kingdom | $3.23B | +31% | +26% | 6% | 14.3× | 22.4% | +9.0% |
| Greggs GRG.L | United Kingdom | $3.20B | +42% | +7% | 9% | 18.1× | 10.5% | +21.5% |