Sensient Technologies Corp (NYSE: SXT) started the day on Thursday, with a price increase of 2.62% at $107.9, before settling in for the price of $105.15 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, SXT posted a 52-week range of $66.14-$106.07.
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It was noted that the giant of the Basic Materials sector posted annual sales growth of 8.67% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 8.67%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 11.44%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $42.24 million, simultaneously with a float of $41.80 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $4.58 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $94.97, while the 200-day Moving Average is $80.09.
Sensient Technologies Corp (SXT) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Specialty Chemicals Industry. Sensient Technologies Corp’s current insider ownership accounts for 1.55%, in contrast to 93.29% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on May 09 ’25, this organization’s Director sold 1,668 shares at the rate of 95.45, making the entire transaction reach 159,215 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 7,946.
Sensient Technologies Corp (SXT) Earnings and Revenue Records
Sensient Technologies Corp’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 11.44% and is forecasted to reach 3.81 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 14.81% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 8.67% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Sensient Technologies Corp (NYSE: SXT) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Sensient Technologies Corp (SXT). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.74. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $35.72, and its Beta score is 0.55. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 2.93. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 67.37.
In the same vein, SXT’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 3.02, a figure that is expected to reach 0.88 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 3.81 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Sensient Technologies Corp (SXT)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Sensient Technologies Corp (NYSE: SXT), its last 5-days Average volume was 0.64 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 0.34 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 95.01% While, its Average True Range was 2.90.
Raw Stochastic average of Sensient Technologies Corp (SXT) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 99.21%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 97.94% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 24.64% that was lower than 34.49% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
