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

Sensient Technologies Corporation (SXT) Free cash flow margin

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Sensient Technologies Corporation's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was −1.00%, down 3.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (2.38%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −4.68% (fiscal 2022) to 12.5% (fiscal 2020); the current reading is higher than 36% of that period. That is below the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 3.49% and below the Basic Materials sector median of 0.00%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 2.38% (3.91)
FY2024 6.29% 0.67
FY2023 5.62% 10.30
FY2022 −4.68% (10.80)
FY2021 6.12% (6.39)
FY2020 12.5% 2.07
FY2019 10.4% 8.08
FY2018 2.36% 3.83
FY2017 −1.47% (8.87)
FY2016 7.40% 3.90

Against its own ten years

Low −4.68% High 12.5%
Ten-year median 5.62%
Current reading's percentile 36

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
BCPC Balchem Corporation compare 16.1%
NEU NewMarket Corporation compare 13.9%
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. compare 9.61%
AVNT Avient Corporation compare 7.00%
PRM Perimeter Solutions, SA compare 6.48%
CBT Cabot Corporation compare 5.72%
EMN Eastman Chemical Company compare 5.18%
CLMT Calumet, Inc. compare 1.60%
SXT Sensient Technologies Corporation −1.00%
Specialty Chemicals industry median 3.49%
Basic Materials sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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