Seaboard Corporation
Rank #433Capital ReturnSEB · NYSE · Industrials
Seaboard Corporation (SEB) — Rank #433 by gross profitability (GP/assets 0.08) · ROE 9.0% · Piotroski F-Score 7 / 9.
As-of 2026-09-28 · CIK 0000088121 · all metrics point-in-time as of the filing date.
About
Seaboard Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates in agricultural, energy, and ocean transportation business worldwide.
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It operates through Pork, Commodity Trading and Milling (CT&M), Marine, Liquid Fuels, Power, and Turkey segments. The Pork segment produces and sells pork products to further processors, food service operators, grocery stores, and distributors; and hogs. The CT&M segment sources, transports, and markets wheat, corn, soybeans, soybean meal, and other commodities; and produces and sells wheat flour, maize meal, manufactured feed, and oilseed crush commodities. The Marine segment provides cargo shipping services; owns and leases dry, refrigerated, specialized containers, and other related equipment; and operates a terminal and an off-port warehouse and cargo storage. The Liquid Fuels segment owns biodiesel plants and terminal facilities. The Power segment operates as an independent power producer that generates electricity for the power grid in the Dominican Republic. The Turkey segment produces and processes turkey products to retail stores, food service outlets, and industrial entities, as well as exports products to foreign markets. The company also produces and sells sugar and alcohol.
Seaboard Corporation was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Merriam, Kansas.
- Industry
- Conglomerates
- Sector
- Industrials
- State
- DE
- Filer Category
- Large accelerated filer
- Fiscal Year End
- December 31
- Website
- seaboardcorp.com
Financials
Weakening
Direction over 5 fiscal years
- Free cash flowimproving
- Gross margindeteriorating
- Gross profitabilitydeteriorating
- Net cashdeteriorating
- Operating margindeteriorating
- Return on equitydeteriorating
- Share count (dilution)improving
Red flags: fcf_ni_divergence_unfavorable
Monitoring diagnostic of business direction — not a prediction of returns.
Each fiscal year is read as-of that year’s own 10-K filing, so nothing restated after the fact leaks backwards. Line items this filer never tagged are omitted. Hover or tap a badge for the diagnostic behind it.
| Fiscal year end | 2025-12-31filed 2026-02-12 | 2024-12-31filed 2025-02-13 | 2023-12-31filed 2024-02-13 | 2022-12-31filed 2023-02-14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||
| Revenue | 9,746.0 | 9,100.0 | 9,562.0 | 11,243.0 |
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 7.1% | -4.8% | -15.0% | 21.8% |
| Gross profit | 693.0 | 576.0 | 316.0 | 1,030.0 |
| Gross margin | 7.1% | 6.3% | 3.3% | 9.2% |
| Net income | 496.0 | 88.0 | 226.0 | 580.0 |
| Net margin | 5.1% | 1.0% | 2.4% | 5.2% |
| EPS (diluted) | $514.46 | $90.62 | — | — |
| EPS growth (YoY) | 467.7% | — | — | — |
| Cash flow | ||||
| Operating cash flow | 568.0 | 519.0 | 710.0 | 676.0 |
| Capital expenditures | 562.0 | 511.0 | 506.0 | 474.0 |
| Free cash flow | 6.0 | 8.0 | 204.0 | 202.0 |
Figures are as originally filed with the SEC (point-in-time), not restated, so they can differ slightly from sites that show later-restated numbers. Why point-in-time?