Sensient Technologies Financial Ratios
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Sensient Technologies ratio analysis
Sensient Technologies earned a net margin of 8.3% in FY 2025, up from 8.0% a year earlier. Gross margin was 33.5% compared with a median of 32.9% over the prior 7 years. Return on equity reached 11.3%, meaning Sensient Technologies generated 0.11 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.59 versus 0.60 the year before, and the current ratio was 4.10. At the end of FY 2025, SXT traded at 29.6 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 15.2 to 36.0, with a median of 29.0. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Sensient Technologies financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 29.57 | 23.78 | 29.86 | 21.83 | 35.61 | 28.48 | 33.16 | 15.24 | 36.03 | 27.87 |
| Price / sales | 2.45 | 1.89 | 1.90 | 2.13 | 3.05 | 2.34 | 2.06 | 1.72 | 2.29 | 2.46 |
| Price / book | 3.31 | 2.78 | 2.63 | 3.06 | 4.49 | 3.34 | 3.08 | 2.78 | 3.76 | 4.19 |
| Gross margin | 33.5% | 32.6% | 31.6% | 34.0% | 32.9% | 31.8% | — | — | 36.5% | 36.1% |
| Operating margin | 12.8% | 12.3% | 10.6% | 13.7% | 12.3% | 11.5% | 9.2% | 14.7% | 12.0% | 13.1% |
| Net margin | 8.3% | 8.0% | 6.4% | 9.8% | 8.6% | 8.2% | 6.2% | 11.3% | 6.4% | 8.9% |
| Free cash flow margin | 2.4% | 6.3% | 5.6% | -4.7% | 6.1% | 12.5% | 10.4% | 2.4% | -1.4% | 7.2% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 11.3% | 11.8% | 8.9% | 14.1% | 12.7% | 11.7% | 9.3% | 18.3% | 10.5% | 15.1% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 6.0% | 6.2% | 4.6% | 7.1% | 6.8% | 6.3% | 4.7% | 8.6% | 5.2% | 7.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.59 | 0.60 | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.55 | 0.57 | 0.70 | 0.83 | 0.73 | 0.72 |
| Current ratio | 4.10 | 3.55 | 3.96 | 3.43 | 3.19 | 3.43 | 3.91 | 3.83 | 3.39 | 3.36 |
| Revenue growth | 3.5% | 6.9% | 1.4% | 4.1% | 3.6% | 0.7% | -4.6% | -0.7% | -1.7% | 0.6% |
| EPS growth | 7.5% | 33.0% | -33.8% | 18.9% | 8.5% | 33.5% | -47.6% | 82.3% | -28.0% | 22.1% |