Growth Metrics

Seaboard (SEB) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Seaboard has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 15 years, most recently at 0.02% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.02% for Q4 2025, up 1.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.02% (up 1.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.02%, up 1.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.02% at Seaboard, down from 0.04% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for SEB hit a ceiling of 0.12% in Q4 2022 and a floor of 0.08% in Q4 2023.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.03% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.03%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: increased 10bps in 2022 and later decreased -21bps in 2023.
  • Seaboard's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.03% in 2021, then surged by 377bps to 0.12% in 2022, then crashed by -167bps to 0.08% in 2023, then surged by 111bps to 0.01% in 2024, then soared by 77bps to 0.02% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.02% (Q4 2025), 0.04% (Q3 2025), and 0.02% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.