Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for SXT in the last 90 days.
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Sensient Technologies (SXT) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$128.88−0.34 (−0.3%)
Gekko Brief
AI summarySensient Technologies draws attention this week on its natural colors positioning, with a story suggesting the stock could be 41% undervalued given an anticipated regulatory-driven shift from synthetic to natural colors in the U.S. by 2028. Separately, shares received a Strong Buy upgrade on 21 September, with analysts citing 11.6% revenue growth to USD 1.7 billion, though the same analysts flagged negative trailing free cash flow as a counterpoint to the growth story.
SXT closes at $128.88, down 0.3%, sitting between its 50-day average of $129.10 and 200-day average of $109.52. The one-month return stands at -3.6%, while six-month and one-year returns are 48.7% and 33.3% respectively. The GekkoIndex reads 58, placing it in the Neutral zone, down 2.8 over the past five sessions. Price sits 13.6% above Gekko Fair Value, which is set at $113.45.
The next earnings date falls on 30 October, 31 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day hold; the prior report on 24 April showed EPS of $1.04 against a $0.97 estimate, with a 25.6% reaction, and beats in 5 of the last 8 quarters. Seasonality over the past 5 years shows a -0.7% average return across this 20-day window, rising in 2 of them. No insider, Congress, or unusual options activity appears in the respective 90-day and 30-day windows. Three analysts cover the stock, with a consensus target of $142.80.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
Sensient Technologies price vs fair value
Close $128.88200-day averageGekko Fair Value $113.45
Sensient Technologies quick facts
- Market cap
- $5.49B
- P/E ratio
- 34.8
- Forward P/E
- 22.7
- EPS, TTM
- $3.69
- Revenue, TTM
- $1.70B
- Profit margin
- 9.3%
- Dividend yield
- 1.27%
- Beta
- 0.78
- Volume
- 250,581 avg 319,563
- 1-year return
- +33.3%
- Typical daily move
- ±2.1%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±4.8%
- 50-day average
- $129.10
- 200-day average
- $109.52
- Next earnings
- Oct 30
- Shares outstanding
- 42.56M
Sensient Technologies swing-trade checklist
Sensient Technologies scores 1 supportive, 2 mixed and 2 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
1 supportive2 mixed2 headwinds
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $128.88 sits between the 50-day ($129.10) and 200-day ($109.52) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexmixed
58, Neutral
Reading 58 is in the Neutral zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valueheadwind
13.6% above
Price is 13.6% above Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% above).
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No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 31 days
Next report Oct 30, 2026, 31 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalityheadwind
−0.7% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged −0.7% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
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Sensient Technologies stock chart and price history
Sensient Technologies closed at $128.88 on Sep 28, 2026, +33.3% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $82.60 to $138.82.
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −3.6%
- 3 months
- +8.7%
- 6 months
- +48.7%
- 1 year
- +33.3%
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About Sensient Technologies
Sensient Technologies develops, manufactures, and distributes colors, flavorings, and other specialty ingredients used across a wide range of consumer and industrial products. It is known for supplying flavor systems and coloring solutions that reach food, beverage, personal care, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics manufacturers, along with basic ingredient inputs like essential oils, natural extracts, spices, and dehydrated vegetables.
The company runs through three segments: Flavors & Extracts, Color, and Asia Pacific. Its offerings include custom-compounded and pre-blended flavor products, natural and synthetic colors for foods and nutraceuticals, cosmetic ingredients such as active compounds and pigments, pharmaceutical excipients like coatings and colorants, and technical dyes for industrial use. These products are sold under names including Sensient Food Colors, Sensient Pharmaceutical Coating Systems, Sensient Cosmetic Technologies, and Sensient Industrial Colors, reaching customers in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and other regions.
Founded in 1882, Sensient Technologies is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its shares are listed on the NYSE under the ticker SXT.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: specialty/candy
- Website
- sensient.com
Sensient Technologies GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Sensient Technologies’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 58, in the Neutral zone, down 2.8 points over five sessions.
58Neutral
Down 2.8 points over five sessions, from the Accumulation zone.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 33 | +0.7% | +7.1% | ||
| Accumulation | 147 | +1.8% | +4.2% | ||
| Neutral (current zone) | 446 | +0.3% | +2.2% | ||
| Distribution | 38 | +0.6% | 0.0% | ||
| Selling | 8 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average SXT share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.1% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is Sensient Technologies stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Sensient Technologies trades 13.6% above Gekko Fair Value of $113.45, so the shares are overvalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Sensient Technologies shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$113.45
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 26, 2026
13.6% Overvalued
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Sensient Technologies insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Sensient Technologies, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in SXT were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Sensient Technologies has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Dec 31, 2021
- $11.04M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.20%
From company filings.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
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Sensient Technologies earnings: next date and track record
Sensient Technologies reports on Oct 30, 2026 (31 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 5 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 30, 2026
31 days away
- EPS estimate
- $1.09
- Revenue estimate
- $458.3M
5 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±7.4%average move across the report
5 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Apr 24, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Sensient reported a strong start to 2026 with 7% local currency revenue growth, 10% local currency adjusted EBITDA growth, and 14% local currency adjusted EPS growth, exceeding management's early expectations. The Color Group led performance with ~12.3% revenue growth driven by strong commercial activity around natural color conversions; Flavors & Extracts and Asia Pacific also showed positive results. Management highlighted accelerated new sales wins, growing pipelines, high customer service levels, and continued investment to scale production capacity for the U.S. wholesale conversion to natural colors. Key financials: Q1 revenue $435.8M vs $392.3M prior year; operating income $66.7M; adjusted EBITDA up ~10.4% (local currency); cash used in operations $14M; Q1 capex $29M with full-year capex guided to $150–$170M; net debt/credit-adjusted EBITDA 2.4x (expected to rise into the high 2s). Management emphasized the $1 billion natural color opportunity (derived from ~$100M synthetic color revenue converting at roughly 10:1), reported roughly $20M invoiced toward that conversion over the last ~9 months, and reiterated confidence in customer timelines for 2027–2028 conversions (Walmart 1/1/2027 cited). Management flagged several headwinds — rising interest expense (expected to be ~$6M higher for the year), potential FX and raw material/transport inflation, and regulatory/timing risks around FDA approvals and launch cadence — and said they expect to take modest pricing to offset input inflation. Overall tone was confident and proactive, with measured caution on below-EBITDA items (interest, FX, taxes) and supply-chain/raw-material inflation.
- Guidance
- Raised 2026 revenue/adjusted EBITDA/adjusted EPS guidance (management noted an EPS midpoint increase of roughly $0.10 from prior guide). Full-year capital expenditures expected $150–$170 million. Q1 adjusted tax rate ~24.9%; guiding ~25% next quarter and for the year. Net debt/credit-adjusted EBITDA 2.4x as of 3/31/26 and expected to increase into the high 2s. Management expects interest expense to be up about $6 million for the year. FX expected to be roughly immaterial for the year but could be a headwind in the back half; no specific revenue/EBITDA dollar figures included on the call beyond the noted raises.
- Risks flagged
- Rising interest expense and higher leverage; foreign exchange volatility (potential headwind in back half of year); raw material and logistics inflation (petroleum-based packaging, propylene glycol, fertilizers) that may require pricing actions; timing risk for customer launches and production scale-up for natural color conversions; regulatory/FDA approvals or challenges (e.g., petitions, application-specific approvals) that could delay use cases; potential capacity constraints and competitive dynamics creating timing volatility; geopolitical risks (Middle East) creating input cost uncertainty.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 2026 | $1.04 est $0.97 | $435.8M est $411.2M | +25.6% |
| Feb 13, 2026 | $0.72 est $0.78 | $393.4M est $397.5M | −5.7% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | $0.96 est $0.79 | $412.1M est $395.7M | +2.4% |
| Jul 24, 2025 | $0.94 est $0.88 | $414.2M est $417.6M | +4.6% |
| Apr 24, 2025 | $0.86 est $0.82 | $392.3M est $412.1M | +14.9% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | $0.65 est $0.64 | — | −0.9% |
| Oct 25, 2024 | $0.80 est $0.80 | $392.6M est $378.6M | +2.2% |
| Jul 26, 2024 | $0.77 est $0.82 | $403.5M est $395.0M | −2.8% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Sensient Technologies stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Sensient Technologies is $142.80, +10.8% from the last close, from 3 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$142.80consensus 12-month target, +10.8% from the last close
Now $128.88Avg $142.80
Low $125High $155
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 3 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27 | UBS | $155 | +20.3% |
| Jul 27 | Robert W. Baird | $140 | +8.6% |
| Jul 8 | Rothschild & Co Redburn | $125 | −3.0% |
| Jul 6 | UBS | $143 | +11.0% |
+2.2%average 20-day move after past Neutral readings
−0.7%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±2.1%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Sensient Technologies seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, Sensient Technologies averaged −0.7% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | −1.2% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −3.0% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +0.9% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | −0.7% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +1.8% | 2 of 5 |
For scale, SXT’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 4.8%.
Sensient Technologies market cap and key statistics
Sensient Technologies’s market cap is $5.49B, with a P/E ratio of 34.8 and revenue of $1.70B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $5.49B
- P/E ratio
- 34.8
- Forward P/E
- 22.7
- EPS, TTM
- $3.69
- Gekko Fair Value
- $113.45
Trading
- Volume
- 250,581
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 319,563
- 52-week high
- $138.82
- 52-week low
- $82.60
- Shares outstanding
- 42.56M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $1.70B
- Profit margin
- 9.3%
- Return on equity
- 13.1%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +36.4%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.78
- Typical daily move
- ±2.1%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±4.8%
- Dividend yield
- 1.27%
Sensient Technologies stock news this week
2 headlines about Sensient Technologies from the past week, newest first, each linking to the publisher.
- Sensient Technologies (SXT) Could Be 41% Undervalued On Its Natural Colors StoryYahoo Finance, Sep 28
- Sensient Technologies stock gains as analysts cite revenue growthAD HOC NEWS, Sep 22
Sensient Technologies peers
Sensient Technologies’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| PEPPepsiCo | Buying | 17.5% below |
| MDLZMondelez International | Accumulation | 19.9% below |
| HSYHershey | Buying | 30.4% below |
| IFFInternational Flavors & Fragrances | Neutral | 2.9% below |
| MKCMcCormick | Accumulation | 15.4% below |
| SJMJ.M. Smucker | Accumulation | 7.5% above |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Sensient Technologies stock FAQ
What is Sensient Technologies’s market cap?
Sensient Technologies’s market cap is $5.49B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $128.88, with 42.56M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 34.8.
What is the Sensient Technologies stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Sensient Technologies is $142.80, +10.8% from the last close. Of the 3 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 2 rate it a buy, 1 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Sensient Technologies stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Sensient Technologies is overvalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $128.88 is 13.6% above Gekko Fair Value of $113.45. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Sensient Technologies report earnings next?
Sensient Technologies is expected to report on Oct 30, 2026 (31 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $1.09 per share on revenue of $458.3M. Sensient Technologies beat the earnings estimate in 5 of its last 8 reports, moving 7.4% on average across the report.
What is Sensient Technologies’s 52-week high and low?
Sensient Technologies’s 52-week high is $138.82 and its 52-week low is $82.60; it closed at $128.88 on Sep 28, 2026, +33.3% over the past year.
Is Sensient Technologies stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 1 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (earnings risk), 2 as mixed (trend and gekkoindex) and 2 as headwinds (fair value and seasonality). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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