profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Seaboard
$3,746.85+1.19% today
-6.7% in 1 year
1-year low $3,410.251-year high $5,958.89
Trading close to its lowest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $7.24 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Seaboard sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $11.2 billion in 2022 to $9.75 billion in 2025, with $496 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Seaboard handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
Buybacks $39M
Free cash flow 2025$6M
Bought back its own shares$39M
Paid as dividends$9M
Cash vs. debt$178M vs. $1.8B
Seaboard vs. similar companies
Seaboard grows in the middle of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seaboard | 7.2× · Cheap | ||
 Hitachi | 35.7× · Expensive | ||
 Mitsubishi | 20.8× · Fair price | ||
 Itochu | 18.8× · Fair price | ||
 3M | 29.2× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Seaboard's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,243 | 9,562 | 9,100 | 9,746 | |
| 1,030 | 316 | 576 | 693 | |
| 657 | -87 | 156 | 239 | |
| 854 | 448 | 629 | 798 | |
| 580 | 226 | 88 | 496 | |
| 499.66 | 202.21 | 90.62 | 514.46 | |
| 9.2% | 3.3% | 6.3% | 7.1% | |
| 5.8% | -0.9% | 1.7% | 2.5% | |
| 5.2% | 2.4% | 1.0% | 5.1% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 7,902 | 7,566 | 7,665 | 8,246 |
| Cash | 199 | 56 | 98 | 178 |
| Total debt | 1,633 | 1,673 | 1,711 | 1,823 |
| Total liabilities | 2,888 | 2,932 | 2,916 | 3,011 |
| 4,996 | 4,616 | 4,729 | 5,212 | |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 7.4% | 2.1% | 3.9% | 5.4% | |
| 11.6% | 4.9% | 1.9% | 9.5% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 676 | 710 | 519 | 568 | |
| 474 | 506 | 511 | 562 | |
| 202 | 204 | 8 | 6 | |
| Dividends paid | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| 0 | 600 | 8 | 39 | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 7.2×
- –
- 7.40
- 0.8×
- 0.4×
- 598.1×
- 6.6×
- 0.2%
- 13.8%
- 0.2%
Profitability
- 7.1%
- 2.5%
- 5.1%
- 6.9%
- 4.2%
- 6.0%
- 11.5%
- 6.9%
- 4.3%
- –
Growth
- −4.7%
- +1.0%
- −25.0%
- +0.0%
- −4.5%
Financial health
- 0.4×
- 0.07
- 4.4%
- 4.2×
- 2.38
- 1.29
- 1.17
How it ranks in Industrials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 20%of 984
Bottom 13%of 987
Top 4%of 875
Bottom 8%of 988
Bottom 19%of 987
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2026 | 1.24 | – | – |
| Feb 12, 2026 | 2.64 | – | – |
| Oct 28, 2025 | 113.71 | – | – |
| Jul 29, 2025 | 105.22 | – | – |
| Apr 28, 2025 | 32.95 | – | – |
| Feb 13, 2025 | 158.58 | – | – |
| Oct 29, 2024 | -153.44 | – | – |
| Jul 30, 2024 | 62.82 | – | – |
0.2%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$2a year at today's yield, before tax
+0.0%2020 to 2025
Raised–not every year
Paid per share, each year
$6.00 in 2017 → $9.00 in 2025
How safe it looks
1.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 150.0%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
1/7Passes 1 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
37No pass
Benjamin Graham
93Pass
Philip Fisher
35No pass
Peter Lynch
15No pass
Joel Greenblatt
49No pass
Charlie Munger
35No pass
Terry Smith
21No pass
Questions about Seaboard
Is Seaboard a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, and the price looks low. 1 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Seaboard AI analysis
What does Seaboard do?
Seaboard Corporation operates as an agribusiness and transportation company worldwide. It operates through six segments: Pork, Commodity Trading and Milling (CT&M), Marine, Sugar and Alcohol, Power, and Turkey. It is in Conglomerates, based in Merriam, KS, United States, with 14,000 employees.
Does Seaboard pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 0.2% a year, about 2% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $9.00 million in dividends.
Is Seaboard stock halal?
No. Seaboard does not pass our halal screen: it produces or processes pork. How we check
How has Seaboard stock done over the past year?
Down 6.7% over the past twelve months, to $3,746.85. It traded between $3,410.25 and $5,958.89 and is 37.1% below its high.
Who are Seaboard's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Itochu and 3M. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Seaboard's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.