SXT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Sensient Technologies | NYSE:SXT)

Sensient Technologies Corp manufactures and markets natural and synthetic colors, flavors, and other specialty ingredients. Sensient's offerings are predominantly applied to consumer-facing products, including food and beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and personal care industries. Its 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 reportable segments are: Flavors & Extracts, which derive key revenue, Color, Asia Pacific, and Corporate and Other. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from North America, followed by Europe, Asia-Pacific, and other regions.

Sensient Technologies trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SXT.

As of July 24, 2026, SXT stock price climbed to $126.79 with 1,789,851 million shares trading.

SXT has a beta of 0.77, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SXT has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SXT has a market cap of $5.39 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Sensient Technologies reported $436 million in Revenue and $1.04 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $27 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.21.

In the last 3 years, SXT traded as high as $129.35 and as low as $52.90.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SXT belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, IWM, VB, VBR.

SXT has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +16.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +17.7%. In the last 3 month period, SXT fell short of the market, returning +3.3%, while SPY returned +3.8%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks SXT has outperformed the stock market by returning +9.5%, while SPY returned -2.1%.

SXT support price is $114.44 and resistance is $119.62 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that SXT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.