Seaboard Corporation (SEB)

NYSE: SEB · Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials · Shawnee Mission, KS · filing with the SEC since 1994

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Grade6.1

◀ Past 7.1● Present 5.9▶ Future 5.6

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The grade of Seaboard Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense

Headline grade

6.1/10

◀ Past7.125% of the headline

● Present5.945% of the headline

▶ Future5.630% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

7.1/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed

7.1/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 71st percentile among 36 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Seaboard Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed

6.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+6.8% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 65th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Seaboard Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $9.7 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.8% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 19% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

revenue growth over the filed span6.8%top 41% of its family
the share of years revenue rosetop 33% of its family
the share of filed years with a profittop 14% of its family
the deepest fall from a revenue peak19.1%bottom 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed

8.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 6.0% a year. 38% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 25 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Seaboard Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 6.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 38% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

the share count over the yearstop 5% of its family
cash returned against operating cash flowtop 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.9/1045% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed

5.9/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 10%: 10¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 37%: owes 37¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 33 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Seaboard Corporation earned about 10 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 8 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 37 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

what it owes per dollar of assetstop 23% of its family
return on equitytop 31% of its family
gross profit against assetsbottom 21% of its family
the share count against the year beforetop 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed

6.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 38% of 35 in its family; net margin 5.1%.

weight 45% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Seaboard Corporation's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $9.7 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 22% by size; a net margin of 5.1% ranks in the top 27%; revenue growth of -4.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 36% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

revenue against the family$9.75Btop 22% of its family
net margin5.1%top 27% of its family
three-year revenue growth-4.7%bottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate

5.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.2/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 24 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate: No officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 24 members with one.
What the record cannot read: No officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read.
How it was reasoned: family median, 24 readings behind it.
Confidence: 20 of 100
What would change it: Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Seaboard Corporation's leadership is put at 5.2 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 24 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.6/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed

3.4/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 34% of 35 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 34th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Seaboard Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $178 million against debt of $977 million leaves -9.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 46% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.1% of revenue (bottom 33%); a gross margin of 7.1% (bottom 32%); research spending of 0.7% of revenue (bottom 25%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

cash less debt against assets-9.7%bottom 46% of its family
cash from operations less capital spending against revenue0.1%bottom 33% of its family
gross margin7.1%bottom 32% of its family
research spending against revenue0.7%bottom 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed

4.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 45% of 35 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 45th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Seaboard Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -4.7% a year over the last three filed years against 6.8% over all 10, slowing (bottom 21% of its family); the newest year grew 7.1% (top 30%); research spending grew -32.7% a year (bottom 13%); capital spending grew 5.8% a year (top 23%) (its annual reports). Seaboard Corporation reported 6 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Commodity Trading and Milling at $5.2 billion (53%), Pork at $2.0 billion (21%), Marine at $1.6 billion (17%), and 3 more; 3 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

three-year growth against the whole span-11.5 points a yearbottom 21% of its family
the newest year's revenue growth7.1%top 30% of its family
three-year growth of research spending-32.7%bottom 13% of its family
three-year growth of capital spending5.8%top 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed

8.9/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 11% of 32 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 89th percentile among 32 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Seaboard Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $9.7 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 19% above the $8.2 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 8% of its family); net income of $501 million against a prior three-year average of $300 million (top 14%); a net margin of 5.1% against 2.8% before (top 11%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

revenue against the prior three years' pace19.0%top 8% of its family
net income against the prior three years' average+67%top 14% of its family
net margin against its prior average+2.3 pointstop 11% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton SEB · research, not advice