---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-23-048937"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SXT"
cik: "0000310142"
company_name: "SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP"
filed_at: "2023-10-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-09T19:09:35.557705+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sensient Q3 EPS 75¢, down 15.3% local currency; guides FY EPS down low double digits vs prior high single digit

## Summary
- Revenue $363.8M (+0.8% reported; -2.0% local currency); operating income $44.5M (-6.2% local currency).
- Diluted EPS 75¢ vs 85¢ YoY; local currency EPS down 15.3% on lower volumes and higher interest.
- Flavors & Extracts operating income -12.4%; Color -18.7%; Asia Pacific +16.4% (reported).
- FY 2023 GAAP EPS guidance cut to low double-digit decline (from high single-digit); revenue growth lowered to low single-digit local currency.
- CEO cites customer destocking headwinds; expects improved growth when market dynamics recover.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-23-048937
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SXT
- cik: 0000310142
- company_name: SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP
- filed_at: 2023-10-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310142/000114036123048937/0001140361-23-048937-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310142/000114036123048937/ef20012808_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-23-048937.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP updated its the quarter ended September 30, 2023 guidance (reaffirmed).
  - Period: the quarter ended September 30, 2023
  - Guidance: reaffirmed
  - Result: reported results
  source text: Sensient Technologies Corporation (the “Company”) issued a press release on October 20, 2023, disclosing its results of operations for its quarter ended September 30, 2023, and its financial condition at that date. The press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310142/000114036123048937/0001140361-23-048937-index.htm

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