Don't Miss Today's Strong And Under The Radar Stock: Sensient Technologies (SXT)
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a strong and under the radar candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Sensient Technologies as such a stock due to the following factors:
- SXT has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $16.6 million.
- SXT is making at least a new 3-day high.
- SXT has a PE ratio of 38.3.
- SXT is mentioned 0.94 times per day on StockTwits.
- SXT has not yet been mentioned on StockTwits today.
- SXT is currently in the upper 20% of its 1-year range.
- SXT is in the upper 35% of its 20-day range.
- SXT is in the upper 45% of its 5-day range.
- SXT is currently trading above yesterday's high.
'Strong and Under the Radar' stocks tend to be worthwhile stocks to watch for a variety of factors including historical back testing and price action. Market technicians refer to such stocks as being in an accumulation phase before a mark-up and peak. Traders and hedge funds have frequently found that these types of stocks continue to build a solid price base and then ultimately spike higher and peak when others 'discover' how good the stock is performing. By leveraging the social discovery aspect of StockTwits we are highlighting stocks that don't currently receive much attention from retail investors, but we suspect may soon garner more attention.
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More details on SXT:
Sensient Technologies Corporation manufactures and markets colors, flavors, and fragrances in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, the Flavors and Fragrances Group, and the Color Group. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.6%. SXT has a PE ratio of 38.3. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate Sensient Technologies a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 1 rates it a hold.
The average volume for Sensient Technologies has been 229,500 shares per day over the past 30 days. Sensient has a market cap of $3.0 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and chemicals industry. The stock has a beta of 1.07 and a short float of 2.2% with 4.00 days to cover. Shares are up 6.7% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
Analysis:
rates Sensient Technologies as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.43, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 73.48% to $62.08 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -2.70%.
- 36.49% is the gross profit margin for SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP which we consider to be strong. Regardless of SXT's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, SXT's net profit margin of 7.39% compares favorably to the industry average.
- Regardless of the drop in revenue, the company managed to outperform against the industry average of 4.7%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 2.1%. The declining revenue appears to have seeped down to the company's bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- You can view the full Sensient Technologies Ratings Report.
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