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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. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 11.6%, EPS grew 36.0%, free cash flow fell 64.3% and total debt rose 3.73%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years, revenue growth for five; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

133.74 0.32 +0.24%
Market cap
$5.7B
P/E
36.0×
Fwd P/E
28.5×
Dividend yield
1.23%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.88
Beneish M
−2.43
Dividend safety
46/100
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Sensient Technologies Corporation (SXT) P/E ratio

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As of 16 October 2026, Sensient Technologies Corporation (SXT) trades at a P/E ratio of 36.0×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 14.8× (January 2019) to 47.2× (December 2020); the current reading is higher than 90% of that period. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 25.4× and above the Basic Materials sector median of 19.5×.

P/E ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
FY2025 29.5× 22.31%
FY2024 24.2× (18.55%)
FY2023 29.7× 37.53%
FY2022 21.6× (39.01%)
FY2021 35.4× 23.66%
FY2020 28.6× (16.07%)
FY2019 34.1× 126.91%
FY2018 15.0× (58.45%)
FY2017 36.1× 32.05%
FY2016 27.4× 1.50%

Quarterly newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
Jun 2026 33.1× 30.36%
Mar 2026 25.4× (13.95%)
Dec 2025 29.5× 3.57%
Sep 2025 28.5× (7.35%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 14.8× High 47.2×
Ten-year median 29.1×
Current reading's percentile 92

P/E ratio against peers

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AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. compare 20.5×
CBT Cabot Corporation compare 20.9×
BCPC Balchem Corporation compare 33.5×
SXT Sensient Technologies Corporation 36.0×
Specialty Chemicals industry median 25.4×
Basic Materials sector median 19.5×
Market median 18.1×

What P/E ratio is

Price to Earnings Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual profit per share.

Stock Price ÷ EPS (Basic) (TTM)

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