Seaboard Financial Ratios
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Seaboard ratio analysis
Seaboard earned a net margin of 5.1% in FY 2025, up from 1.0% a year earlier. Gross margin was 7.1% compared with a median of 8.4% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 9.6%, meaning Seaboard generated 0.10 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.19 versus 0.21 the year before, and the current ratio was 2.40. At the end of FY 2025, SEB traded at 8.6 times earnings; across the 4 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 7.6 to 27.1, with a median of 13.1. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Seaboard financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 8.60 | 27.10 | 17.66 | 7.56 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Price / sales | 0.44 | 0.26 | 0.42 | 0.39 | 0.49 | 0.49 | 0.72 | 0.65 | 0.89 | 0.86 |
| Price / book | 0.82 | 0.50 | 0.86 | 0.88 | 1.03 | 0.92 | 1.37 | 1.28 | 1.52 | 1.46 |
| Gross margin | 7.1% | 6.3% | 3.3% | 9.2% | 8.9% | 8.1% | 6.5% | 8.4% | 9.5% | 9.2% |
| Operating margin | 2.5% | 1.7% | -0.9% | 5.8% | 5.0% | 3.4% | 1.6% | 3.6% | 4.1% | 4.3% |
| Net margin | 5.1% | 1.0% | 2.4% | 5.2% | 6.2% | 4.0% | 4.2% | 0.0% | 4.2% | 5.8% |
| Free cash flow margin | 0.1% | 0.1% | 2.1% | 1.8% | -4.0% | 0.4% | -2.6% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 5.0% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 9.6% | 1.9% | 4.9% | 11.6% | 12.9% | 7.4% | 8.0% | 0.1% | 7.2% | 9.9% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 6.1% | 1.2% | 3.0% | 7.4% | 7.6% | 4.4% | 4.5% | 0.1% | 4.8% | 6.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.19 | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.22 | 0.23 | 0.16 | 0.16 |
| Current ratio | 2.40 | 2.50 | 2.52 | 2.63 | 2.61 | 3.12 | 2.87 | 3.86 | 3.82 | 3.63 |
| Revenue growth | 7.1% | -4.8% | -15.0% | 21.8% | 29.5% | 4.2% | 3.9% | 13.3% | 8.0% | -3.8% |
| EPS growth | 467.7% | -55.2% | -59.5% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |