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Sensient Technologies Corporation

SXT Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

Sensient Technologies Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.6 billion, up 3.52% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+10.6%
EPS
+31.0%
Free cash flow
−90.9%
Total debt
+11.0%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

119.61 6.21 −4.94%
Market cap
$5.1B
P/E
30.0×
Fwd P/E
28.0×
Dividend yield
1.37%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.88
Beneish M
−2.43
Dividend safety
46/100
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Sensient Technologies Corporation (SXT) Debt to equity

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Sensient Technologies Corporation's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 0.6×, up 0.0× from fiscal 2025 (0.6×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.5× (fiscal 2021) to 0.8× (fiscal 2018); the current reading is higher than 27% of that period. That is in line with the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 0.6× and above the Basic Materials sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 0.6× (0.42%)
FY2024 0.6× (4.51%)
FY2023 0.6× (3.96%)
FY2022 0.7× 19.43%
FY2021 0.5× (3.40%)
FY2020 0.6× (19.65%)
FY2019 0.7× (14.89%)
FY2018 0.8× 12.66%
FY2017 0.7× 1.47%
FY2016 0.7× (3.80%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Sep 2026 0.6× 1.32%
Jun 2026 0.6× (3.75%)
Mar 2026 0.6× 5.95%
Dec 2025 0.6× (1.46%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.5× High 0.8×
Ten-year median 0.7×
Current reading's percentile 27

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
CLMT Calumet, Inc. compare −2.4×
BCPC Balchem Corporation compare 0.1×
NEU NewMarket Corporation compare 0.4×
SXT Sensient Technologies Corporation 0.6×
EMN Eastman Chemical Company compare 0.7×
CBT Cabot Corporation compare 0.7×
AVNT Avient Corporation compare 0.7×
PRM Perimeter Solutions, SA compare 0.9×
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. compare 1.1×
Specialty Chemicals industry median 0.6×
Basic Materials sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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