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International Flavors & Fragrances

MaterialsChemicalsS&P 500
Ticker IFFNEW YORK, NYFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $54.38Diluted shares 257.0M

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE: IFF) creates and manufactures ingredients and compounds used in food, beverages, health and biosciences, and scent products for consumer-goods manufacturers and other customers. Its offerings include flavors and taste solutions, specialty food ingredients, enzymes,… From the company’s description.

In fiscal 2025, International Flavors & Fragrances reported revenue of $10.89B, down 5.2% from fiscal 2024, and a net loss of $359.00M. Its operating margin was −3.5%, and operations generated $850.00M in cash. Over the twelve months to Jun 30, 2026, revenue was $9.14B.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$10.89BFY2025
−5.2% year over year
Last 12 mo $9.14B
-3.51%FY2025
−10.2 percentage points
Last 12 mo 8.03%
$-359.00MFY2025
−234.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $267.00M
7.20%FY2025
+4.7 percentage points
Last 12 mo 1.89%
Cash & financing
$850.00MFY2025
−20.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $1.16B
$252.00MFY2025
−58.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $540.00M
0.42FY2025
Was 0.65× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.41
256.0MFY2025
No change, year over year
Last 12 mo 257.0M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What International Flavors & Fragrances does

In the company’s own words

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE: IFF) creates and manufactures ingredients and compounds used in food, beverages, health and biosciences, and scent products for consumer-goods manufacturers and other customers. Its offerings include flavors and taste solutions, specialty food ingredients, enzymes, cultures, probiotics, nutrition ingredients, fragrance compounds and fragrance ingredients. In 2025, the company operated through Taste, Food Ingredients, Health & Biosciences and Scent; its Pharma Solutions segment was divested in May 2025, along with its nitrocellulose business. Taste serves food and beverage makers, while Food Ingredients provides functional, plant-based and natural food solutions. Health & Biosciences serves food, health, home and personal care, animal nutrition and grain-processing markets; Scent supplies fine and consumer fragrances for perfumes, household products and personal care. The company recorded $10.890 billion in sales in 2025 and had approximately 21,500 employees worldwide at year-end. Its global operations include approximately 170 manufacturing facilities, creative centers and application laboratories across about 30 countries. Its website is www.iff.com.

Company details
Sector
Materials
Industry (SIC)
Chemicals
Headquarters
NEW YORK, NY
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
51253
SIC
2860

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-4.09B$418.40M$4.93B$9.43B$13.94B2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns International Flavors & Fragrances — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

602
funds hold it
2 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$9.16B
held by funds, at market
46.5%
of shares held by funds
11
bond issues held by funds

Superinvestors in International Flavors & Fragrances · what they did last quarter

Carl IcahnUNCHANGED
Icahn Capital (Carl C. Icahn)
4.1%of 13F portfolio
Mark HillmanDECREASED -13.6%
Hillman Capital Management
3.6%of 13F portfolio

Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.

Largest fund holders · International Flavors & Fragrances’s weight in each

Dodge & Cox Stock Fund
DODGX · Dodge & Cox Funds
1.17%of fund net assets
Dodge & Cox International Stock Fund
DODFX · Dodge & Cox Funds
0.91%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.03%of fund net assets
VANGUARD 500 INDEX FUND
VOO · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.03%of fund net assets
First Eagle Global Fund
SGENX · First Eagle Funds
—of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

International Flavors & Fragrances’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 11 issues of International Flavors & Fragrances’s debt, $512.09M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 2.51%, maturing 2026 to 2050.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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