Sensient Technologies (Sensient Technologies) Debt-to-Equity : 0.63 (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is Sensient Technologies Debt-to-Equity?

Sensient Technologies's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $13 Mil. Sensient Technologies's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $645 Mil. Sensient Technologies's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,053 Mil. Sensient Technologies's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.63.

A high debt to equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. This can result in volatile earnings as a result of the additional interest expense.

The historical rank and industry rank for Sensient Technologies's Debt-to-Equity or its related term are showing as below:

SXT' s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.45 Med: 0.68 Max: 0.83
Current: 0.63

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of Sensient Technologies was 0.83. The lowest was 0.45. And the median was 0.68.

SXT's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than
70.29% of 1397 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 0.35 vs SXT: 0.63

Sensient Technologies Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sensient Technologies's Debt-to-Equity can be seen below:

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Sensient Technologies Debt-to-Equity Chart

Sensient Technologies Annual Data

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Dec23

Debt-to-Equity

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0.70

0.56

0.55

0.65

0.63

Sensient Technologies Quarterly Data
	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23
Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.65	0.69	0.67	0.64	0.63

Competitive Comparison of Sensient Technologies's Debt-to-Equity

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Sensient Technologies's Debt-to-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-Equity 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 Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Sensient Technologies's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sensient Technologies's Debt-to-Equity falls into.

Sensient Technologies Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

Sensient Technologies's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(13.46	+	645.085)	/	1053.324
	=	0.63

Sensient Technologies's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(13.46	+	645.085)	/	1053.324
	=	0.63

Sensient Technologies (NYSE:SXT) Debt-to-Equity Explanation

In the calculation of Debt to Equity, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by Total Stockholders Equity. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

Because a company can increase its ROE % by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high ROE % companies.

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Sensient Technologies (Sensient Technologies) Business Description

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Address

777 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 53202-5304

Website

https://www.sensient.com

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.

Executives

E. Craig Mitchell	officer: Pres, Flavors & Fragrances Grp	777 E. WISCONSIN AVENUE, MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Anstalt Winder	10 percent owner	ZOLLSTRASSE 16, SCHAAN N2 9494
Investment Anstalt Winder	10 percent owner	ZOLLSTRASSE 16, SCHAAN N2 9494
Winder Pte. Ltd.	10 percent owner	6 BATTERY ROAD #19-01A, SINGAPORE U0 049909
Cunha Kathleen Da	director	777 E. WISCONSIN AVE., SUITE 1100, MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Winder Investment Pte Ltd	10 percent owner	19-01A 6 BATTERY ROAD, SINGAPORE U0 049909
Sharad P Jain	director	777 E. WISCONSIN AVE., SUITE 1100, MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Freemont Capital Pte Ltd	10 percent owner	19-01A 6 BATTERY ROAD, SINGAPORE U0 049909
Foundation Haldor	10 percent owner	ZOLLSTRASSE 16, SCHAAN N2 9494
Essie Whitelaw	director	777 E WISCONSIN AVE, MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Elaine R Wedral	director	C/O BALCHEM CORP, P O BOX 600, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Paul Manning	officer: President, Color Group	777 E. WISCONSIN AVE., MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Joseph Carleone	director	3883 HOWARD HUGHES PKWY, SUITE 700, LAS VEGAS NV 89169
Carol R Jackson	director	777 E. WISCONSIN AVENUE, MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Thierry Hoang	officer: VP, Asia Pacific Group	25B CHANCERY LANE, SINGAPORE U0 309515