The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2024-04-23), Seaboard's share price is $3284.37. Seaboard's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4,753.57. Hence, Seaboard's PB Ratio of today is 0.69.
Good Sign:
Seaboard Corp stock PB Ratio (=0.66) is close to 10-year low of 0.65
The historical rank and industry rank for Seaboard's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
SEB'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.65 Med: 1.26 Max: 1.99
Current: 0.69
During the past 13 years, Seaboard's highest PB Ratio was 1.99. The lowest was 0.65. And the median was 1.26.
SEB's PB Ratio is ranked better than 69.01% of 513
companies
in the Conglomerates industry
Industry Median: 1.05
vs SEB: 0.69
During the past 12 months, Seaboard's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 10.40% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 13.10% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 11.20% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 7.90% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Seaboard was 32.00% per year. The lowest was 4.30% per year. And the median was 10.70% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Seaboard PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Seaboard's PB Ratio 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.
For the Conglomerates subindustry, Seaboard's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio 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.
Seaboard PB Ratio Distribution
For the Conglomerates industry and Industrials sector, Seaboard's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Seaboard's PB Ratio falls into.
Seaboard PB Ratio Calculation
The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.
Seaboard's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:
* 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.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.
The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.
Be Aware
Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.
Seaboard PB Ratio Related Terms
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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, and turkey. It operates in 45 countries, with a concentration in the U.S. and countries in Central and South America and Africa.
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