Seaboard (AMEX:SEB) Debt-to-EBITDA

: 1.19 (As of Dec. 2022)

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Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Seaboard's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was $613 Mil. Seaboard's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was $1,020 Mil. Seaboard's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was $1,368 Mil. Seaboard's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was 1.19.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for Seaboard's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

SEB' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.12 Med: 1.9 Max: 4.9
Current: 1.85

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Seaboard was 4.90. The lowest was 0.12. And the median was 1.90.

SEB's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
67.73% of 375 companies
in the Conglomerates industry
Industry Median: 3.07 vs SEB: 1.85

Seaboard Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Seaboard's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Seaboard Annual Data

Trend

Dec13

Dec14

Dec15

Dec16

Dec17

Dec18

Dec19

Dec20

Dec21

Dec22

Debt-to-EBITDA

4.90

3.28

2.96

2.12

1.91

Seaboard Quarterly Data
	Mar18	Jun18	Sep18	Dec18	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22
Debt-to-EBITDA																2.36	2.21	3.42	1.86	1.19

Competitive Comparison

For the Conglomerates subindustry, Seaboard's Debt-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Annual Data Quarterly Data

Seaboard Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

For the Conglomerates industry and Industrials sector, Seaboard's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Seaboard's Debt-to-EBITDA falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the Debt-to-EBITDA's extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.

Seaboard Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Seaboard's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(613	+	1020)	/	854
	=	1.91

Seaboard's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(613	+	1020)	/	1368
	=	1.19

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is four times the quarterly (Dec. 2022) EBITDA data.

Seaboard (AMEX:SEB) Debt-to-EBITDA Explanation

In the calculation of Debt-to-EBITDA, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by EBITDA. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

Seaboard Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Seaboard (AMEX:SEB) Business Description

Industry

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Address

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

Website

https://www.seaboardcorp.com

Seaboard Corp is a conglomerate of food production and transportation businesses. The group operates six business segments: pork, commodity trading and milling, marine, sugar and alcohol, power, and turkey. The group offers hog production and pork processing, biodiesel production, agriculture commodity trading, agriculture commodity processing and logistics, grain and feed milling, cargo shipping, sugarcane production, alcohol production, sugar refining, power production, turkey production and processing, and production of jalapeno peppers. The largest end markets by revenue are the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Executives

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
Paul M. Squires	director	SEABOARD FLOUR, 1320 CENTRE STREET, SUITE 200, NEWTON CENTER MA 02459
Michael D. Trollinger	officer: VP, Corporate Controller, CAO	9000 WEST 67TH STREET, SHAWNEE MISSION KS 66202