Is it safe?
Can SXT take a bad year?
Sensient Technologies Corporation carries $729M of net debt at 2.59× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$729M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.59×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.61× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 5.57
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 7.31×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $768M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $39M
- Net debt
- $729M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $282M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $220M
- Debt / equity
- 0.63×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.72×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 35%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- −0.52%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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