Seaboard Corp Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Nov 05, 2010
Seaboard Corp (SEB, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-10-02.

Seaboard Corp has a market cap of $2.39 billion; its shares were traded at around $2000 with a P/E ratio of 14 and P/S ratio of 0.6. The dividend yield of Seaboard Corp stocks is 0.2%. Seaboard Corp had an annual average earning growth of 5% over the past 10 years.SEB is in the portfolios of Irving Kahn of Kahn Brothers & Company Inc., Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended

October 2, October 3, October 2, October 3,

2010 2009 2010 2009

Net sales:

Products (includes sales to

foreign affiliates of $120,670, $ 849,049 $ 647,256 $2,403,174 $1,990,553

$138,396, $363,891 and $399,296,

respectively)

Services 231,029 176,906 681,659 575,611

Other 31,735 30,463 95,719 75,859

Total net sales 1,111,813 854,625 3,180,552 2,642,023



Money market funds $229,841 $229,841 $153,699 $153,699

Corporate bonds 107,628 109,638 34,663 35,449

Fixed income mutual funds 60,161 60,295 - -

Fixed rate municipal notes and bonds 45,700 46,018 144,794 148,609

Variable rate demand notes 29,900 29,900 1,900 1,900

U.S. Government agency securities 15,369 15,478 15,907 16,272

Asset backed debt securities 8,819 8,815 8,447 8,484

U.S. Treasury securities 3,589 3,651 - -

Other 2,360 2,363 3,060 3,069

Foreign government debt securities - - 10,300 10,210

Total available-for-sale short-term

investments 503,367 505,999 372,770 377,692

High yield trading debt securities 24,751 26,570 24,784 26,771

Other trading debt securities 3,271 3,568 2,669 2,888

Total available-for-sale and trading

short-term Investments $531,389 $536,137 $400,223 $407,351



Assets:

Available-for-sale securities -

short-term investments:

Money market funds $229,841 $229,841 $ - $ -

Corporate bonds 109,638 - 109,638 -

Fixed income mutual funds 60,295 60,295 - -

Fixed rate municipal notes and

bonds 46,018 - 46,018 -

Variable rate demand notes 29,900 - 29,900 -

U.S. Government agency securities 15,478 - 15,478 -

Asset backed debt securities 8,815 - 8,815 -

U.S. Treasury securities 3,651 - 3,651 -

Other 2,363 - 2,363 -

Trading securities - short-term

investments:

High yield debt securities 26,570 - 26,570 -

Other debt securities 3,568 - 3,568 -

Trading securities - other current

assets:

Domestic equity securities 11,779 11,779 - -

Foreign equity securities 7,651 3,790 3,861 -

Fixed income mutual funds 3,625 3,625 - -

Money market funds 3,225 3,225 - -

U.S. Treasury securities 2,535 - 2,535 -

U.S. Government agency securities 1,615 - 1,615 -

Other 172 153 19 -

Derivatives:

Commodities 2,790 2,790 - -

Foreign currencies 28 - 28 -

Total Assets $569,557 $315,498 $254,059 $ -



Liabilities:

Derivatives:

Commodities (1) 50,464 50,464 - -

Interest rate swaps 6,367 - 6,367 -

Foreign currencies 6,235 - 6,235 -

Total Liabilities $ 63,066 $ 50,464 $ 12,602 $ -



2010 2009

(Thousands of dollars) Amortized Fair Amortized Fair

Cost Value Cost Value

Short-term investments,

available-for-sale $503,367 $505,999 $372,770 $377,692

Short-term investments,

trading debt securities 28,022 30,138 27,453 29,659

Long-term debt 76,845 79,507 78,869 82,415



Components of net periodic benefit cost:

Service cost $ 1,586 $ 1,509 $ 4,755 $ 4,520

Interest cost 2,166 2,046 6,493 6,127

Expected return on plan assets (1,556) (1,197) (4,663) (3,579)

Amortization and other 999 1,252 2,995 3,747

Net periodic benefit cost $ 3,195 $ 3,610 $ 9,580 $10,815



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