Growth Metrics

Seaboard (SEB) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Seaboard has reported Return on Sales over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.05% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.05% for Q4 2025, down 6.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.04% (up 1.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.04%, up 1.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.05% at Seaboard, up from 0.04% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for SEB hit a ceiling of 0.12% in Q4 2024 and a floor of 0.07% in Q3 2024.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.04% (2025), compared with a mean of 0.04%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: rose 15bps in 2021 and later decreased -12bps in 2024.
  • Seaboard's Return on Sales stood at 0.05% in 2021, then soared by 70bps to 0.08% in 2022, then crashed by -48bps to 0.04% in 2023, then surged by 166bps to 0.12% in 2024, then plummeted by -56bps to 0.05% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.05% (Q4 2025), 0.04% (Q3 2025), and 0.04% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.