International Flavors & Fragrances stock analysis
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) Stock Price & Analysis
IFF Stock Chart & Stats
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- Market Cap
- CHF 17.33B
- Enterprise Value
- CHF 27.67B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- CHF 272.00M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- CHF 6.79B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 108.8
- Beta
- 1.38
- Next Earnings
- Feb 10, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 0.52
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 1.86%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Improving Cash Generation
The sharp improvement in free cash flow and operating cash generation strengthens IFF’s ability to fund innovation, reduce debt, and support shareholder returns internally. Better working-capital performance also provides greater resilience while the portfolio transition proceeds.
Portfolio Transformation
Separating Food Ingredients is intended to sharpen IFF’s focus on Taste, Scent, and Health & Biosciences, while simplifying the operating portfolio. The planned stranded-cost reductions could improve efficiency, cash generation, and the durability of margins after closing.
Broad-Based Growth And Innovation
Growth across all segments, supported by customer wins and new products such as GUT-X, indicates that IFF’s formulation expertise and application capabilities continue to create demand. A broader innovation pipeline can support recurring customer relationships and future mix improvement.
Bears Say
Declining Revenue And Thin Profitability
The return to profitability is encouraging, but very low net margins leave limited protection against operating setbacks, cost inflation, or weaker volumes. Continuing revenue declines also suggest that the earnings recovery has not yet become a durable, broad-based growth trend.
Input-Cost Inflation And Pricing Lag
When pricing trails oil-derivative, energy, and logistics cost inflation, gross and operating margins can remain under pressure even when volumes grow. The expected lag into 2027 creates a prolonged risk that cost recovery will be incomplete or delayed.
Persistent Health Market Weakness
Weak Health demand can constrain near-term volume growth and profitability in a business where IFF is also investing in R&D and commercial capabilities. Continued consumer caution would make the Health turnaround slower and could dilute otherwise stronger segment performance.
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Company Description
International Flavors & Fragrances
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF), through its various subsidiaries, operates as a global developer and purveyor of active cosmetic and natural health ingredients. These vital components are incorporated into a wide array of consumer goods distributed across significant markets such as Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Greater Asia, North America, and Latin America. The company's activities are organized into four principal divisions: 1. Nourish: This segment focuses on natural and plant-derived specialty food ingredients, offering items like flavor compounds, savory solutions, and inclusions. It also provides natural food protection solutions, including antioxidants and anti-microbials, for use in beverages, confectionery, and dairy items. 2. Scent: The Scent division creates fragrance compounds, encompassing luxurious fine fragrances (perfumes and colognes) and everyday consumer fragrances. It further supplies essential fragrance ingredients, both synthetic and natural, which are blended to formulate new scents. Additionally, this segment delivers cosmetic active ingredients, such as functional compounds, botanicals, and advanced delivery systems, designed to enhance customers' cosmetic and personal care product lines. 3. Health & Biosciences: This segment is dedicated to the research, development, and production of enzymes, food cultures, probiotics, and other specialized biological ingredients. 4. Pharma Solutions: This division is responsible for manufacturing and distributing cellulosic and seaweed-derived pharmaceutical excipients. IFF's diverse customer base primarily consists of manufacturers in sectors including perfumery, cosmetics, hair and personal care, soaps and detergents, cleaning products, dairy, meat and processed foods, beverages, snacks and savory items, sweet and baked goods, dietary supplements, infant and elderly nutrition, functional foods, and producers of pharmaceutical excipients and oral care products. Established in 1833, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. is headquartered in New York, New York.
- Sector
- Basicmaterials
- Industry
- Chemicals - Specialty
- CEO
- Jon Erik Fyrwald
- Employees
- 21,500
- Website
- www.iff.com
- Address
- 521 West 57th Street, New York City, NY, 10019-2960, US
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) Earnings & Revenues
IFF Company Deck
IFF Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call was predominantly positive. IFF reported broad-based third-quarter growth, improved margins and cash flow, raised the lower ends of its full-year guidance ranges, advanced its portfolio transformation, and highlighted strong innovation and customer wins. The main challenges were soft Health markets, fourth-quarter profitability pressure, input-cost inflation, pricing recovery timing, modestly higher leverage, and geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East.
View all CH:IFF earnings summariesIFF Net sales Breakdown
- 22.78% Taste
- 30.10% Food Ingredients
- 22.76% Scent
- 3.39% Pharma Solutions
- 20.96% Health & Biosciences
