Sensient Technologies Corp
At today's price, Sensient Technologies Corp (SXT) is priced for +15.1% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Sensient sells colors and flavors into a demand curve that regulation just bent upward: with the FDA phasing out petroleum-based synthetic dyes by the end of 2026, the 10-K says the company is ⟦"accelerating its efforts to enable the conversion of its synthetic food color business in North America (of approximately $100 million in revenue) to natural colors"⟧ (accession 0001140361-26-005311). • The market has already paid for much of that story: at $115.85 no family of valuation method reaches
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316 institutional managers reported holding SXT in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 31 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Janus Henderson, among others. On the short side, 1.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
SXT's share count is about flat over the past five years ($20.00M of repurchases, offset by issuance). It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting); the current rate is $1.64 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $191.08M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at SXT over the trailing three years: 2025: 3 buys totaling $294k. 20 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
SXT's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | -1.7% | -8.1% |
| 2023-11-08 | -1.0% | +9.8% |
| 2024-02-23 | -4.2% | +3.9% |
| 2024-05-08 | +1.3% | -0.8% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
SXT's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-23 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-04-28 (items 5.07); 2026-04-24 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-13 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2025-12-09 (items 5.03, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 11, 2026
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