Sensient Technologies (SXT)

• Market cap: $3.09B
• 1 day: -1.50%
• 5 days: 3.33%
• 1 month: -3.05%
• 3 months: -5.79%
• 6 months: -1.26%
• Year to date: 4.25%
• 1 year: 5.29%
• 5 years: 68.63%
• 10 years: 11.54%
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Industrial Organic Chemicals

About: Sensient Technologies Corp manufactures and markets natural and synthetic colors, flavors, and other specialty ingredients. The company has a widespread network of facilities around the globe, and its customers operate across a variety of end markets. Sensient's offerings are predominantly applied to consumer-facing products, including food and beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and personal care industries. The company's principal products are flavors, flavor enhancers, ingredients, extracts, and bionutrients, essential oils, dehydrated vegetables and other food ingredients, natural and synthetic food and beverage colors, and others. The company's three reportable segments were the Flavors & Extracts Group, the Color Group, and the Asia Pacific Group.

Employees: 3,956

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

56% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 42 | Existing positions closed: 27

24% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 103 | Existing positions reduced: 83

4% more funds holding

Funds holding: 269 [Q3] → 281 (+12) [Q4]

1.76% more ownership

Funds ownership: 89.27% [Q3] → 91.03% (+1.76%) [Q4]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 1 [Q3] → 1 (+0) [Q4]

6% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $135K | Put options by funds: $143K

10% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $3.03B [Q3] → $2.74B (-$291M) [Q4]