Sensient Technologies (SXT)
Develops flavors, colors, extracts, and specialty ingredients for consumer-product manufacturers.
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Develops flavors, extracts, dehydrated vegetables, essential oils, and colors for food, beverage, personal-care, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and industrial customers. Revenue comes from customized ingredient sales supported by applications expertise, through product-based Flavors & Extracts and Color groups and a geographically managed Asia Pacific group.
Develops and manufactures flavor systems, extracts, essential oils, dehydrated agricultural ingredients, and natural and synthetic colors. Flavors & Extracts supplies food, beverage, personal-care, and home-care applications; Color serves food and beverage, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, personal-care, and industrial markets. The Asia Pacific Group markets both portfolios through a geographically managed regional organization.
Competes through applications chemistry, customer-specific formulation, quality control, agronomy, sourcing, and a global manufacturing network. These capabilities support customers reformulating products from synthetic to natural colors.
Earns revenue by supplying ingredients to other manufacturers, not from consumer brands. Production and sourcing span U.S. and international markets, while product-safety, labeling, and other regulations govern operations. Certain products are made at only one facility, and some product lines depend on a relatively small group of customers.
Company facts
Target rangeAs of Sep 21, 2026
Latest analyst notes
| Date | Firm | Action | Prior | Current |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2026 | UBS | Reiterate | Rating: —Target: $143 | Target: $155 |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Robert W. Baird | Target | Target: $85 | Target: $140 |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Redburn Partners | Target | Target: — | Target: $125 |
| Apr 28, 2026 | UBS | Reiterate | Rating: —Target: — | Target: $143 |
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Balance sheet, Jun 30, 2026Cash & short-term investments $31.0M · Total debt $763.9M · Total assets $2.37B · Shareholders' equity $1.26B
- Revenue
- $462.1M
- Operating income
- $76.7M
- Net income
- $51.4M
HistoryDividendAnnual yield
| Institutions | ≈ 98.49% | 41.92M shares | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 385 holders · as of Jun 30, 2026 · largest filers plus last quarter's tail | |||
| Insiders | 8.92% | 3.80M shares | |
| 22 holders · as of Aug 6, 2026 | |||
| Strategic holders | 9.81% | 4.18M shares | |
| 1 holder · as of May 1, 2026 | |||
| Adds to | 117.22% | ||
42.56M company shares as of Sep 22, 2026 · institutions as of Jun 30, 2026 · holders as of their latest filing
This quarter's institutional total failed a plausibility check; shown: the largest filers plus last quarter's remainder.
These groups come from separate filings that can overlap, so they add to 117.22%; nothing is left for Other.
Top shareholders13F · 13D/G · Form 4
| Holder | Stake | Shares | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
BlackRock, Inc.Institution | 15.60% | 6.64M | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Winder Pte. Ltd.1,2Strategic10 percent owner | 9.81% | 4.18M | filed May 1, 2026 |
Ein #.Insider | 7.65% | 3.26M | filed Feb 10, 2022 |
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLCInstitution | 6.52% | 2.78M | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Freemont Capital Pte LtdInstitution | 4.82% | 2.05M | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
- Winder Pte. Ltd.'s transaction reports restate only vehicles that traded; the 2026 ownership statement (4.18M) is used instead.
- Winder Pte. Ltd. reports a block also reported by another filer; it is counted once, under that filer.
Insider tradesForm 4
| Date | Insider | Role | Shares | Avg price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2026 | Mario Ferruzzi | director | −1,200 | $129.48 |
| May 18, 2026 | Thierry Hoang | officer: VP, Asia Pacific Group | −400 | $115.19 |
| May 4, 2026 | Thierry Hoang | officer: VP, Asia Pacific Group | −439 | $114.15 |
| Apr 30, 2026 | Winder Pte. Ltd. | 10 percent owner | −2,127,566 | $109.69 |
| Apr 30, 2026 | Steven B. Morris | officer: President, Color Group | −200 | $114.58 |
- International Flavors & Fragrances
Broadest listed peer in taste, food ingredients, and bioscience inputs
- Archer Daniels Midland
Diversified natural colors, flavors, and specialty-ingredients rival
- Ingredion
Texture, sweetener, caramel-color, and clean-label ingredient peer
Compare
| Company | Price | Change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensient Technologies | $132.24 | +2.00% | $5.52B | 34.9 | 29.8 | 3.2 | +11.6% |
| International Flavors & Fragrances | $85.58 | +2.37% | $21.34B | 77.4 | 24.9 | 2.1 | −29.3% |
| Archer Daniels Midland | $83.07 | −0.37% | $40.19B | 22.8 | 14.0 | 0.5 | +7.2% |
| Ingredion | $97.64 | +0.63% | $6.12B | 10.6 | 8.8 | 0.8 | +0.9% |
| Median | 22.8 | 14.0 | 0.8 | +0.9% |