A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Sensient Technologies Corp (NYSE: SXT) stock price down -5.00% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $72.37. SXT’s price has ranged from $66.14 to $82.99 over the past 52 weeks.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Basic Materials sector was 3.34%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 8.00%. With a float of $41.79 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $42.18 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 4014 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 32.56%, operating margin of 12.3%, and the pretax margin is 10.45%.
Sensient Technologies Corp (SXT) Insider Activity
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Specialty Chemicals Industry. The insider ownership of Sensient Technologies Corp is 1.54%, while institutional ownership is 90.81%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 06 ’24, was worth 321,932. In this transaction President, Color Group of this company sold 4,000 shares at a rate of $80.48, taking the stock ownership to the 36,518 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 06 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 4,000 for $75.28, making the entire transaction worth $301,120.
Sensient Technologies Corp (SXT) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.89 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 8.00% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.84% during the next five years compared to 8.67% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Sensient Technologies Corp (NYSE: SXT) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Sensient Technologies Corp’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 1.34. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.87. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 29.79.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.94, a number that is poised to hit 0.82 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.69 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Sensient Technologies Corp (SXT)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 0.28 million, its volume of 0.67 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 32.35%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.28.
During the past 100 days, Sensient Technologies Corp’s (SXT) raw stochastic average was set at 17.90%, which indicates a significant increase from 11.56% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 26.65% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 25.43% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $73.12, while its 200-day Moving Average is $75.20. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $72.34 in the near term. At $75.93, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $78.20. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $66.47, it is likely to go to the next support level at $64.20. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $60.61.
Sensient Technologies Corp (NYSE: SXT) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 2.92 billion, the company has a total of 42,393K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 1,557 M while annual income is 124,670 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 376,420 K while its latest quarter income was 30,100 K.
