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

3,415.13 27.62 −0.80%
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) Operating margin

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Seaboard Corporation's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 2.61%, up 0.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (2.45%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −0.91% (fiscal 2023) to 5.84% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is below the Conglomerates industry median of 3.46% and below the Industrials sector median of 5.21%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 2.45% 0.74
FY2024 1.71% 2.62
FY2023 −0.91% (6.75)
FY2022 5.84% 0.88
FY2021 4.96% 1.52
FY2020 3.44% 1.83
FY2019 1.61% (1.97)
FY2018 3.58% (0.55)
FY2017 4.13% (0.15)
FY2016 4.28% 2.03

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 0.47% (2.95)
Jun 2026 3.42% (0.58)
Mar 2026 4.00% 1.30
Dec 2025 2.70% (0.61)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −0.91% High 5.84%
Ten-year median 3.44%
Current reading's percentile 40

Operating margin against peers

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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