SEB (Seaboard) COGS-to-Revenue : 0.94 (As of Sep. 2024)

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What is Seaboard COGS-to-Revenue?

Seaboard's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Sep. 2024 was $2,081 Mil. Its Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2024 was $2,218 Mil.

Seaboard's COGS to Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2024 was 0.94.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. Seaboard's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Sep. 2024 was 6.18%.

Seaboard COGS-to-Revenue Historical Data

The historical data trend for Seaboard's COGS-to-Revenue can be seen below:

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Seaboard COGS-to-Revenue Chart

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0.91

0.97

Seaboard Quarterly Data
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COGS-to-Revenue	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.93	0.99	0.96	0.94	0.94

Seaboard COGS-to-Revenue Calculation

Seaboard's COGS to Revenue for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	9246	/	9562
	=	0.97

Seaboard's COGS to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	2081	/	2218
	=	0.94

Seaboard (AMEX:SEB) COGS-to-Revenue Explanation

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin.

Seaboard's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	1	-	COGS to Revenue
	=	1	-	Cost of Goods Sold / Revenue
	=	1	-	2081 / 2218
	=	6.18 %

A company that has a moat can usually maintain or even expand their Gross Margin. A company can increase its Gross Margin in two ways. It can increase the prices of the goods it sells and keeps its Cost of Goods Sold unchanged. Or it can keep the sales price unchanged and squeeze its suppliers to reduce the Cost of Goods Sold. Warren Buffett believes businesses with the power to raise prices have moats.

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Address

9000 West 67th Street, Merriam, KS, USA, 66202

Website

https://www.seaboardcorp.com

Seaboard Corp is a diversified group of companies that operate in agricultural and ocean transport businesses. The company is engaged in hog production and pork processing in the United States; commodity trading and grain processing in Africa and South America; cargo shipping services in the U.S., Caribbean and Central and South America; sugar and alcohol production in Argentina; and electric power generation in the Dominican Republic. It also has an equity method investment in Butterball, LLC, a producer and processor of turkey products. The group operates six business segments: pork, commodity trading and milling, marine, sugar and alcohol, power, turkey and others. It operates in 45 countries, with a concentration in the U.S. and countries in Central and South America and Africa.

Executives

Cerezo Baena Laura P	officer: Assistant Secretary	9000 W 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
Barbara M Smith	officer: Interim Controller and PAO	9000 W 67TH STREET, MERRIAM KS 66202
Frances B Shifman	director	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
Vacas Jacques Emma Alejandra	officer: Assistant Treasurer	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
James T Hubler	officer: Assoc. Gen Counsel & Asst. Sec	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
Benjamin R Hodes	officer: Vice President, Finance	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
Elizabeth A Loudon	officer: Vice President, Tax	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
John B Warner	officer: Vice President-Human Resources	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
Adriana N Hoskins	officer: Vice President and Treasurer	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, MERRIAM KS 66202
Peter B Brown	officer: Pres. & CEO, Seaboard Foods	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
Jacob A. Bresky	officer: Vice Pres-Business Development	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, 3RD FLOOR, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
Ellen S. Bresky	director, 10 percent owner	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, 3RD FLOOR, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
Douglas W Baena	director
Darwin E Sand	officer: Pres. & CEO, Seaboard Foods	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202
Winfield Ivan J. Jr	officer: VP-Information Technology	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202