Benzinga | Oct 15, 2020 10:16AM EDT

A Preview Of Sensient Technologies's Earnings

Sensient Technologies (NYSE: SXT) announces its next round of earnings this Friday, October 16. Here is Benzinga's everything-that-matters guide for this Friday's Q3 earnings announcement.

Earnings and Revenue

Analysts predict Sensient Technologies will report earnings of $0.68 per share on revenue of $303.20 million. In the same quarter last year, Sensient Technologies announced EPS of $0.75 on revenue of $317.65 million. If the company were to match the consensus estimate when it reports Friday, EPS would have fallen 9.33%. Revenue would be down 4.55% on a year-over-year basis. Here is how the company's reported EPS has compared to analyst estimates in the past:

Quarter Q2 2020 Q1 2020 Q4 2020 Q3 2019EPS Estimate 0.68 0.62 0.61 0.79EPS Actual 0.70 0.72 0.62 0.75Revenue Estimate 311.79 M 319.50 M 307.51 M 344.11 MRevenue Actual 323.09 M 350.68 M 318.58 M 317.65 M

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares of Sensient Technologies are up 6.63%.

Do not be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. Sensient Technologies is scheduled to hold the call at 09:30:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://78449.choruscall.com/dataconf/productusers/sxt/mediaframe/40712/indexr.html