The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2024-04-24), Sensient Technologies's share price is $70.03. Sensient Technologies's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $25.04. Hence, Sensient Technologies's PB Ratio of today is 2.80.
The historical rank and industry rank for Sensient Technologies's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
SXT'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.69 Med: 3.27 Max: 4.59
Current: 2.8
During the past 13 years, Sensient Technologies's highest PB Ratio was 4.59. The lowest was 1.69. And the median was 3.27.
SXT's PB Ratio is ranked worse than 74.23% of 1533
companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 1.56
vs SXT: 2.80
During the past 12 months, Sensient Technologies's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 4.90% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 4.30% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 4.20% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 1.10% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Sensient Technologies was 15.50% per year. The lowest was -8.80% per year. And the median was 6.80% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Sensient Technologies PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Sensient Technologies's PB Ratio 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 PB Ratio
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Sensient Technologies's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio 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 PB Ratio Distribution in the Chemicals Industry
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Sensient Technologies's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Sensient Technologies's PB Ratio falls into.
Sensient Technologies PB Ratio Calculation
The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.
Sensient Technologies's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:
* 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.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.
Sensient Technologies (NYSE:SXT) PB Ratio Explanation
The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.
Be Aware
Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.
Sensient Technologies PB Ratio Related Terms
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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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