Growth Metrics

Seaboard (SEB) Operating Margin (2016 - 2026)

Seaboard has reported Operating Margin over the past 16 years, most recently at 3.65% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin fell 401.0% year-over-year to 3.65%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.88%, up 32.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.88%, 32.0% up from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin for Q4 2025 was 3.65% at Seaboard, down from 3.31% in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, Operating Margin peaked at 6.79% in Q3 2021 and troughed at 9.58% in Q4 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 1.4% and a median of 1.87% in 2025 define the central range for Operating Margin.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: plummeted -1631bps in 2021 and later soared 1573bps in 2022.
  • Year by year, Operating Margin stood at 9.58% in 2021, then surged by 164bps to 6.15% in 2022, then plummeted by -224bps to 7.62% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 105bps to 0.36% in 2024, then plummeted by -1107bps to 3.65% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Operating Margin for SEB at 3.65% in Q4 2025, 3.31% in Q3 2025, and 2.1% in Q2 2025.