International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF)

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.1 billion in fiscal 2016 to $11 billion in fiscal 2025, up 14.9% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 12% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 53% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 6 sales and 9 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04, buying about $32 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. lost about 3 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 15 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 45 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.'s standing among 20 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $11 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 12% by size; a net margin of -3.3% ranks in the top 42%; revenue growth of -4.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 34% (its annual reports).

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Fyrwald, J Erik (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-02-16, 2.7 years (top 47% of its family); most of the 20 officers and directors filing now have filed since the record of its people begins (2025-01-10), a floor of 1.8 years the record cannot see past, so that part is not read; 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (bottom 38%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $590 million against debt of $4.7 billion leaves -16.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 36% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.4% of revenue (top 32%); a gross margin of 36.2% (top 14%); research spending of 6.4% of revenue (top 29%) (its annual report).

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -4.3% a year over the last three filed years against 14.9% over all 10, slowing (bottom 24% of its family); the newest year grew -5.2% (top 50%); research spending grew 4.8% a year (top 27%); capital spending grew 5.6% a year (top 32%) (its annual reports). International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. reported 5 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Food Ingredients at $3.3 billion, Taste at $2.5 billion, Scent at $2.5 billion, and 2 more. 3 of 5 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 30% of revenue (its annual report).

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $11 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.3% below the $11 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 39% of its family); net income of $359 million against a prior three-year average of $1.4 billion (top 8%); a net margin of -3.3% against -11.7% before (top 18%) (its annual reports).