Seaboard Corporation

SEB Industrials Conglomerates

Seaboard Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $9.7 billion, up 7.10% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+9.09%
EPS
−73.4%
Free cash flow
+6.17%
Total debt
+12.4%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

3,637.62 222.15 +6.50%
Market cap
$3.3B
P/E
5.9×
Fwd P/E
0.0×
Dividend yield
0.26%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
3.38
Beneish M
−2.57
Dividend safety
82/100

Seaboard Corporation (SEB) Free cash flow margin

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Seaboard Corporation's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 0.28%, down 0.1 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (0.42%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −3.56% (fiscal 2021) to 5.87% (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 27% of that period. That is above the Conglomerates industry median of 0.00% and below the Industrials sector median of 2.06%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 0.42% (0.04)
FY2024 0.46% (2.03)
FY2023 2.49% 0.44
FY2022 2.05% 5.61
FY2021 −3.56% (4.07)
FY2020 0.51% 3.00
FY2019 −2.49% (3.64)
FY2018 1.15% (0.09)
FY2017 1.24% (4.63)
FY2016 5.87% 0.06

Against its own ten years

Low −3.56% High 5.87%
Ten-year median 1.15%
Current reading's percentile 27

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
DLX Deluxe Corporation compare 10.1%
VMI Valmont Industries, Inc. compare 7.20%
CODI Compass Diversified Holdings compare 4.44%
GHC Graham Holdings Company compare 3.42%
BBUC Brookfield Business Partners L.P. compare 1.68%
SEB Seaboard Corporation 0.28%
OTTR Otter Tail Corporation compare −4.41%
PAM Pampa Energia S.A. compare −33.0%
FBYD Falcon's Beyond Global, Inc. compare −83.5%
Conglomerates industry median 0.00%
Industrials sector median 2.06%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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