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) Price to free cash flow

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Sensient Technologies Corporation has no meaningful price to free cash flow: its trailing twelve-month free cash flow is negative. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.0× (November 2026) to 1,299× (August 2026) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years.

Price to free cash flow, daily

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Annual newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
FY2025 103× 236.84%
FY2024 30.7× (9.32%)
FY2023 33.8× —
FY2022 0.0× —
FY2021 49.9× 166.26%
FY2020 18.7× (7.41%)
FY2019 20.2× (72.00%)
FY2018 72.2× —
FY2017 0.0× —
FY2016 33.8× (43.65%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
Sep 2026 0.0× —
Jun 2026 1,165× 597.69%
Mar 2026 167× 61.66%
Dec 2025 103× (38.15%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.0× High 1,299×
Ten-year median 28.6×
Current reading's percentile 20

Price to free cash flow against peers

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CBT Cabot Corporation compare 17.6×
CLMT Calumet, Inc. compare 52.0×
PRM Perimeter Solutions, SA compare 121×
Specialty Chemicals industry median 19.1×
Basic Materials sector median 17.7×
Market median 14.1×

What Price to free cash flow is

Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.

Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))

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