Is the business good?
How good a business is SXT?
Sensient Technologies Corporation earns 8.9% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
8.9%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.07 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 13%
Operating margin · Specialty Chemicals median 9.1% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.15×
Cash conversion · 0.53× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- +0.48%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 11% |
| FY2021 | 12% |
| FY2022 | 14% |
| FY2023 | 11% |
| FY2024 | 12% |
| FY2025 | 13% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 34%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 13%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 8.7%
- Free cash flow margin
- 1.3%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.66B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $22M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $144M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 8.9%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Chemicals
Ranks #33 of 36 by Smart Score