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Seaboard Corporation (SEB)

AMEX / Industrials / Conglomerates

Share price

3971.81 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

3.80B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 12, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
16, FY2009 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

9.6% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

7.72x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

0.2% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 5.38B USDFY2016 Net income: 314.0M USDFY2017 Revenue: 5.81B USDFY2017 Net income: 246.0M USDFY2018 Revenue: 6.58B USDFY2018 Net income: 3.0M USDFY2019 Revenue: 6.84B USDFY2019 Net income: 287.0M USDFY2020 Revenue: 7.13B USDFY2020 Net income: 283.0M USDFY2021 Revenue: 9.23B USDFY2021 Net income: 571.0M USDFY2022 Revenue: 11.24B USDFY2022 Net income: 582.0M USDFY2023 Revenue: 9.56B USDFY2023 Net income: 227.0M USDFY2024 Revenue: 9.10B USDFY2024 Net income: 90.0M USDFY2025 Revenue: 9.75B USDFY2025 Net income: 501.0M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
6 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 7.72x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits below the lowest.

Today, against the Industrials sector (412 companies), 7.72x sits at the 12th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.04x to 38.40x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 9.6% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Ordinary" (8.0% to 15.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Industrials sector (643 companies), 9.6% sits at the 59th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -15.6% to 15.8%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 3.41x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Investment grade" (3.00x to 6.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether Seaboard Corporation's return on equity stayed above the median of the Industrials sector, year by year. (FY2023 to FY2025, 3 fiscal years of Seaboard Corporation with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Seaboard Corporation's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Seaboard Corporation)
What could explain it
What in Seaboard Corporation's filed statements could explain the movements. (7 readings drawn from the statement lines Seaboard Corporation filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Seaboard Corporation, and where in its filings. (4 questions for Seaboard Corporation)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Seaboard Corporation's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (12 of sixteen figures read for Seaboard Corporation)

These are SEB’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, accession 0000088121-26-000012.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Seaboard Corporation: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Return on equity9.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Return on capital employed, pre-tax3.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Return on assets6.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Gross margin7.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Operating margin2.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Net margin5.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
SEB 5.1%
GFF 2.0%MDU 10.2%VMI 8.5%
2.0%10.2%
Net margin: SEB against the 3 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Seaboard Corporation: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/a

The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Current ratio2.40 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Quick ratio1.40 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Interest coverage3.41x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Altman Z-score3.29 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Net debt
Why n/a

The FY2025 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Total assets 8.25BTotal liabilities 3.01BShareholders' equity 5.21BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Seaboard Corporation owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012).

Seaboard Corporation: balance sheet position
Total assets8.25B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Total liabilities3.01B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Shareholders' equity5.21B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Cash1.23B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio2.40
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2025: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Seaboard Corporation: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings7.72x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
P/E on trailing twelve months6.02x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book0.73x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Price to sales0.39x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Price to earnings over growth0.48 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Diluted earnings per share514.46 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Graham number7910.52 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value SEB on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Seaboard Corporation today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Seaboard Corporation: valuation
Share price3971.81 USD
Market capitalisation3.80B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham number7910.52 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY2025514.46 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 5.77x, median 14.55x, high 2079.20x, latest 6.02x. 2,448 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 72 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Seaboard Corporation

  1. Griffon Corporation (GFF)Market cap 4.28B USD
  2. MDU Resources Group, Inc. (MDU)Market cap 3.92B USD
  3. Valmont Industries, Inc. (VMI)Market cap 8.71B USD

Same industry (Conglomerates) and size band (Mid, 2B to 10B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Seaboard Corporation: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield0.2% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Free cash flow6.0M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Free cash flow margin0.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Dividend yield0.2% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Payout ratio1.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
FY2016 Free cash flow: 269.0M USDFY2016 Net income: 314.0M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 72.0M USDFY2017 Net income: 246.0M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 76.0M USDFY2018 Net income: 3.0M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: -178.0M USDFY2019 Net income: 287.0M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 32.0M USDFY2020 Net income: 283.0M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: -368.0M USDFY2021 Net income: 571.0M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 202.0M USDFY2022 Net income: 582.0M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 204.0M USDFY2023 Net income: 227.0M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 8.0M USDFY2024 Net income: 90.0M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 6.0M USDFY2025 Net income: 501.0M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Seaboard Corporation: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
7.72xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.73xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
0.2%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Feb 12, 2026
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
0.2%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Feb 12, 2026
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
2.40FY2025Feb 12, 2026
0.39xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.48FY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.29FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.76FY2025Feb 12, 2026
7/9FY2025Feb 12, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 16 filed fiscal years on record, FY2009 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Seaboard Corporation filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Seaboard Corporation: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20259.75B239.0M501.0M514.466.0M2.5%9.6%10-K, Feb 12, 20260000088121-26-000012
FY20249.10B156.0M90.0M90.628.0M1.7%1.9%10-K, Feb 13, 20250000088121-25-000017
FY20239.56B-87.0M227.0M202.21204.0M-0.9%4.9%10-K, Feb 13, 20240000088121-24-000025
FY202211.24B657.0M582.0M499.66202.0M5.8%11.7%10-K, Feb 14, 20230000088121-23-000020
FY20219.23B458.0M571.0M490.36-368.0M5.0%12.9%10-K, Feb 15, 20220000088121-22-000017
FY20207.13B245.0M283.0M244.2132.0M3.4%7.4%10-K, Feb 17, 20210000088121-21-000013
FY20196.84B110.0M287.0M246.62-178.0M1.6%8.0%10-K, Feb 19, 20200000088121-20-000010
FY20186.58B236.0M3.0M2.2676.0M3.6%0.1%10-K, Feb 20, 20190000088121-19-000011
FY20175.81B240.0M246.0M211.0172.0M4.1%7.2%10-K, Feb 21, 20180000088121-18-000012
FY20165.38B230.0M314.0M266.50269.0M4.3%9.9%10-K, Feb 21, 20170000088121-17-000016
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 6.8%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 5.3%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 7.6%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -34.5%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Seaboard Corporation: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.76 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Piotroski F-score7/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000088121-26-000012
Named tests met6 of 30 Computed
Beta-0.04 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 6 met, 17 not met, 7 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Deep value; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Tangible book or below; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Does not
Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Clean books, high ROIC. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(5)
  • Debt to Equity: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • EV/EBIT: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • EV/EBITDA: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 5 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, EV/EBIT, Return on Invested Capital. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 7 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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