What is Sensient Technologies Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow?
Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow assesses how much of a company’s cash flow from operations is being devoted to capital expenditure. It’s also useful to distinguish whether the company is capital intensive or not.
Hence, Sensient Technologies's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.32.
Sensient Technologies Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Historical Data
The historical data trend for Sensient Technologies's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Sensient Technologies's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Sensient Technologies's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Sensient Technologies's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Chemicals Industry
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Sensient Technologies's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Sensient Technologies's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow falls into.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow ratio assesses how much of a company’s Cash Flow from Operations is being devoted to Capital Expenditure. It is a good indicator in terms of how much the company is focused on growth. In general, a high Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow ratio indicates that the company is investing more in physical assets and is focused on growth and expansion. Conversely, lower ratio could indicate that a company has reached maturity and is no longer pursuing aggressive growth.
Moreover, the ratio is also useful to distinguish whether the company is capital intensive or not. If the ratio is large, then the company tends to be capital intensive. Lower ratio suggests that it’s a capital-light business. The ratio can be combined with ROIC % to identify whether the company is an asset-light business that has a high return on invested capital. This is one question investors commonly ask to see if a company qualifies as a good company.
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Sensient Technologies (Sensient Technologies) Business Description
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, nutraceutical 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 and the Color Group and, Asia Pacific Group.
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