Sensient Technology Corporation (SXT)

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Sensient Technology Corporation'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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Sensient Technology Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025, up 1.7% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 5% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2019; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Sensient Technology Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 46% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 6 sales and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-01, buying about $291 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Sensient Technology Corporation earned about 11 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 24 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 47 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.5% over the year (the filed statements).

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Sensient Technology Corporation's standing among 20 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 32% by size; a net margin of 8.3% ranks in the top 22%; revenue growth of 3.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 18% (its annual reports).

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Sensient Technology Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Manning, Paul (Chairman, President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2014-12-05, 11.9 years (top 22% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.3 years (top 23%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 15%; 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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Sensient Technology Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $37 million against debt of $709 million leaves -30% of its assets as net cash, bottom 12% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.4% of revenue (top 27%); a gross margin of 33.5% (top 25%); research spending of 3.3% of revenue (bottom 38%) (its annual report).

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Sensient Technology Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 3.9% a year over the last three filed years against 1.7% over all 10, speeding up (top 13% of its family); the newest year grew 3.5% (top 18%); research spending grew 7.8% a year (top 19%); capital spending grew 4.1% a year (top 38%) (its annual reports). Sensient Technology Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Flavors and Extracts at $764 million (47%), Color at $680 million (42%), Asia Pacific at $168 million (10%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Sensient Technology Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.5% below the $1.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 50% of its family); net income of $134 million against a prior three-year average of $120 million (top 34%); a net margin of 8.3% against 8.1% before (top 39%) (its annual reports).