Is the price fair?
What SXT's price assumes
Sensient Technologies Corporation trades at 40.4× earnings against 28.3× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, more expensive than its own group.
40.4
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 28.3 · 1.43× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 2.22
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 0.45%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 3.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +39%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +39% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; revenue has grown +4.5% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 3.02
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 20.0
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 2.66
- Basic Materials median P/E153 names
- 22.8
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E37 names
- 28.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $22M
- Market capitalisation
- $4.83B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.5%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $75.94 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $86.92 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $94.79 |
| 52-week range | $82.67 – $137.49 |
| Today | $136.77 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Specialty Chemicals
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