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Seaboard Corporation

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What Do They Do?

Produces pork products, trades and processes agricultural commodities, and provides cargo shipping for food processors, commodity buyers and cargo shippers.

How Do They Make Money?

Customers generally pay for products and services when they are delivered; most arrangements are completed at a single point, while cargo-shipping customers pay as each voyage progresses. Some commodity-trading customers pay in advance or on delivery.

FY2025 revenue by product or service revenue
SegmentShareRevenue
Products
Sold outright

80%
FY2022: 80%
Services
Mix

18%
FY2022: 19%
Other
2.4%
FY2022: 1.5%

Who Are Their Customers?

Pork products go to food processors, foodservice operators, distributors and grocery stores; commodity trading serves third-party and affiliated buyers. The company also sells cargo shipping, biofuels and electricity to grid customers, while Butterball sells turkey products to retailers, foodservice outlets and industrial buyers.

Do Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Yes. It kept 5 cents of every revenue dollar as net income in FY2025.

Operating income, FY2025
2% of revenue
▲ +53% vs FY2024 ($156M, 2%)
Net income, FY2025
5% of revenue
▲ +457% vs FY2024 ($90M, 1%)
Free cash flow, FY2025
0% of revenue
▼ −25% vs FY2024 ($8M, 0%)

How Are They Changing?

Since the FY2025 annual report
Latest quarter: Q2 FY2026, the three months to Jul 4, 2026
Revenue
▲ +18%
vs $2.5B in Q2 FY2025
Net income
▲ +48%
vs $104M in Q2 FY2025
Products share of revenue vs 81.5% in Q2 FY2025

Flat. Revenue was $9.7B in FY2025, about the same as the $9.2B of FY2021.

Biofuel production The latest report describes biodiesel and renewable diesel production as a separate Liquid Fuels segment, while the older report placed those products within Pork.

Sugar and alcohol business The older report identifies Sugar and Alcohol as a reportable segment; the latest report describes sugar and alcohol production in Argentina under Other Business.

Renewable natural gas The latest report adds production of swine-derived renewable natural gas and related environmental credits from certain hog farms.

Revenue over time
Products Services Other
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