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Diversified agribusiness and shipping conglomerate spanning pork production, grain trading, ocean transportation and overseas milling.
Diversified agribusiness and shipping conglomerate spanning pork production, grain trading, ocean transportation and overseas milling.
Is a collection of separate businesses rather than one product: pork production, a container-shipping line serving Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa, and grain trading and milling in emerging markets, each with its own cycle, so results swing between them. The Bresky family controls the company.
Moat: narrow (scale, distribution). Vertically integrated agribusiness with its own shipping fleet gives cost/logistics advantages.
Headquarters: Shawnee Mission, Kansas, US · Founded: 1918 · Employees: 14,000
Size Seaboard (SEB) is a United States Consumer Staples company (Agricultural Commodities/Milling) with a market value of $3.38B, the 1464th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $3,528 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares fell 22.3%, against -12.9% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 3rd lowest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 7.0% over the last twelve months (peer median +8.1%); the operating margin is 3.0% (peer median 5.0%).
Valuation It trades at 0.4× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 1.1× (2nd cheapest of 21).
Capital Return on invested capital runs 2.0 points below its cost of capital (6.0% WACC).
Short interest Short interest is 2.1% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $10.5B | $9.75B | $9.10B | $9.56B | $11.2B |
| Revenue growth | — | +7% | -5% | -15% | — |
| Gross profit | $799M | $699M | $632M | $328M | $1.09B |
| EBITDA | $642M | $563M | $523M | $208M | $954M |
| Net income | $553M | $496M | $88.0M | $226M | $580M |
| Free cash flow | -$10.0M | $6.00M | $8.00M | $204M | $202M |
| Capital expenditure | $434M | $562M | $511M | $506M | $474M |
| Total debt | $2.05B | $1.92B | $1.81B | $1.82B | $1.83B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | EV / Sales | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seaboard SEB | $3.38B | -22% | +7% | 3% | 0.4× | n/a |
| Tyson Foods TSN | $20.6B | -13% | +3% | 3% | 0.5× | 6.7% |
| Archer Daniels Midland ADM | $33.3B | -9% | +1% | 3% | 0.5× | 8.0% |
| Bunge Global BG | $19.0B | -20% | +55% | 4% | 0.4× | n/a |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | SEB | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | -13.2% | +3.1% | 5th lowest of 21 |
| 6-month return | -22.3% | -12.9% | 3rd lowest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -41.1% | -24.0% | 3rd lowest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +7.0% | +8.1% | 9th lowest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 3.0% | 5.0% | 6th lowest of 21 |
| EV / Sales | 0.4× | 1.1× | 2nd cheapest of 21 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | -2.0 pp | +1.1 pp | 7th lowest of 21 |
| EV / EBITDA | 6.2× | 8.4× | 4th cheapest of 12 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 0.9× | 1.0× | 6th least indebted of 13 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | EV / Sales | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seaboard SEB | United States | $3.38B | -22% | +7% | 3% | 0.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Godrej Industries GODREJIND.NS | India | $3.41B | -22% | +17% | 8% | 1.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Nichirei 2871.T | Japan | $3.42B | +13% | +10% | 5% | 0.8× | 2.4% | +4.6% |
| Fujian Sunner Development 002299.SZ | China | $3.28B | -7% | +13% | 5% | 1.3× | -1.0% | +7.9% |
| First Resources Ltd. (Singapore) EB5.SI | Singapore | $3.27B | -26% | +51% | 30% | 2.1× | -7.1% | +19.0% |
| Ebro Foods EBRO.MC | Spain | $3.12B | +1% | -4% | 10% | 1.1× | -7.7% | +4.4% |
| Heilongjiang Agriculture 600598.SS | China | $3.66B | -18% | -12% | 24% | 4.6× | n/a | n/a |
| Cal-Maine Foods CALM | United States | $3.02B | -15% | -43% | 1% | 0.9× | n/a | n/a |
| Fujian Wanchen Food 300972.SZ | China | $3.86B | -43% | +46% | 7% | 0.3× | -18.7% | +157.9% |
| Jiangsu Lihua Animal Husbandry 300761.SZ | China | $2.94B | +2% | +7% | 3% | 1.1× | 4.0% | +16.8% |
| Schouw & SCHO.CO | Denmark | $2.90B | +30% | -1% | 4% | 0.7× | -3.3% | +9.9% |
| Cofco Sugar 600737.SS | China | $3.94B | -18% | -29% | 6% | 1.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Nisshin Seifun 2002.T | Japan | $3.94B | +14% | +3% | 5% | 0.7× | -1.1% | +4.9% |
| Jiangxi Zhengbang Technology 002157.SZ | China | $3.97B | -17% | +15% | -10% | 1.6× | n/a | n/a |
| Golden Agri-Resources E5H.SI | Singapore | $2.68B | -18% | +9% | 6% | 0.4× | -13.7% | +11.6% |
| Ldc LOUP.PA | France | $4.35B | -6% | +15% | 6% | 0.5× | -7.7% | +10.5% |
| Yunnan Shennong Agricultural Industry 605296.SS | China | $2.60B | +10% | +2% | -19% | 3.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Curaleaf CURA.TO | Canada | $2.50B | -18% | +5% | 1% | 2.6× | n/a | n/a |
| Fuji Oil 2607.T | Japan | $2.46B | +36% | +10% | 5% | 0.8× | 0.9% | +16.2% |
| New Hope Liuhe 000876.SZ | China | $4.71B | -19% | +7% | -3% | 0.9× | n/a | n/a |
| Patanjali Foods PATANJALI.NS | India | $4.75B | -11% | +19% | 4% | 1.1× | n/a | n/a |