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Sensient Technologies Corp. SXT

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.6B
▲ 3.5% YoY
$134.5M
▲ 7.9% YoY
$38.4M
▼ 60.8% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Sensient Technologies Corporation manufactures and markets colors, flavors, and other specialty ingredients, developing products for food and beverage companies as well as the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and personal care industries. As of December 31, 2025, the Company employed 4,070 persons worldwide, approximately 45% of them in the United States and approximately 55% outside of the United States. For 2025, the Company operated through three reportable segments: the Flavors & Extracts Group and the Color Group, managed on a product line basis, and the Asia Pacific Group, managed on a geographic basis. The Flavors & Extracts Group produces flavor, extract, and essential oil products that impart taste, texture, aroma, or other characteristics to a broad range of consumer and other products, and includes the Agricultural Ingredients business, which produces dehydrated garlic, onion, and other agricultural ingredients for food processors. The Color Group develops, manufactures, and supplies natural and synthetic color systems for foods, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceuticals, along with colors and ingredients for personal care and technical colors for industrial applications. The Asia Pacific Group markets the Company's product lines in the Pacific Rim and India under the Sensient name, with its headquarters located in Singapore and manufacturing operations in Australia, China, India, Japan, Thailand, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Sensient Technologies Corporation was incorporated under the laws of the State of Wisconsin in 1882.

Written from the business description in Sensient Technologies Corporation's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 13 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 1.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.6 · Net income 0.1
1B2B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+3.9%
+3.9%
+1.3%
+1.3%
−1.5%
+4.2%
+2.3%
+1.5%
−1.8%
+4.1%
+3.2%
+2.5%
+0.0%
+1.0%
+4.7%
+5.0%
+0.3%
+1.1%
−11.0%
+3.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +3.9% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +4.2%, earnings per share at +4.1%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

8 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 12.8% · Net 8.3%
5%10%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 11.9%
5%10%15%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity produced 12 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 69.6M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 38.4
100.0M200.0M-25.0M-50.0M
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 69.6 · Net buybacks ·
100M200MDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025

USD 69.6M in dividends — 52% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 2.2B
EquityUSD 1.2B
CashUSD 36.5M
Gross debtUSD 709.5M
Net debtUSD 672.9M
Current ratio4.10×

Net debt stands at 56% of equity.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
SXT, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B1.61.61.51.41.41.31.31.41.41.41.41.51.51.51.51.31.21.3
Operating income $B0.20.20.20.20.20.20.10.20.20.20.20.10.20.20.20.20.10.2
EBITDA $B0.30.30.20.20.20.20.20.30.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.2
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.10.00.00.00.00.10.10.00.00.0
Net income $B0.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Free cash flow $B0.00.10.1−0.10.10.20.10.0−0.00.10.00.10.00.00.10.10.10.0
EPS, diluted $3.162.942.213.342.812.591.943.702.032.822.311.512.272.492.412.171.781.89
Dividend / sh $1.641.641.641.641.581.561.471.351.231.111.040.980.910.870.840.790.76◌
Payout %525674495660763660394565403535364339
ROE %11.911.89.114.512.712.19.418.410.615.011.36.49.511.211.911.39.5◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityIndustrial Organic Chemicals
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inWisconsin
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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