Forensic Analysis · Trading Companies & Distributors · as of Aug 10, 2026

Seaboard Corp /De/ (SEB)

A forensic read on Seaboard Corp /De/ built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

5.5

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

7.0

P / E (ttm)

9.5%

ROE

$4.1B

Market cap

0.21%

Dividend yield

7.1%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Seaboard Corp /De/ earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 5.5, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

3.3%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 3.3% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 10% — well below its ~8% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

800% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $48M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 800% of free cash flow, but 8% of operating cash flow. Returns run ahead of free cash flow, with the gap funded by debt or cash reserves rather than the cash the business itself throws off; the payout itself is still covered by operating cash.

$4M

FY2021–FY2021

Goodwill impairments. Took $4M of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2021 ($4M)) — about 1% of net income over the span. Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$9.75B

Revenue Growth YoY+7.1%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-4.7%

Net Margin5.1%

Free Cash Flow$6.0M

Return on Equity9.5%

Debt / Equity0.19x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 10, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.