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Sensient Technologies (Sensient Technologies) Debt-to-EBITDA : 7.31 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Sensient Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA?

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

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 annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $90 Mil. Sensient Technologies's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 7.31.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

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

SXT' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.3   Med: 2.69   Max: 3.52
Current: 3.09

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Sensient Technologies was 3.52. The lowest was 2.30. And the median was 2.69.

SXT's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
60.28% of 1221 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 2.2 vs SXT: 3.09

Sensient Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sensient Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA 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.

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Sensient Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Sensient Technologies Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.52 2.61 2.30 2.61 3.09

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-EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.99 2.71 2.66 2.83 7.31

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

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

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

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



Sensient Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

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

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(13.46 + 645.085) / 212.843
=3.09

Sensient Technologies's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(13.46 + 645.085) / 90.092
=7.31

* 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.

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is four times the quarterly (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


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

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


Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.


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Sensient Technologies (Sensient Technologies) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
777 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 53202-5304
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

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