Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.
3-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past three years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from three years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. Seaboard's current 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio was 5.80%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Seaboard's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
SEB'
s 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.2 Med: 0.7 Max: 6
Current: 5.8
During the past 13 years, Seaboard's highest 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio was 6.00%. The lowest was -0.20%. And the median was 0.70%.
SEB's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked better than 98.31% of 295
companies
in the Conglomerates industry
Industry Median: -0.4
vs SEB: 5.80
Competitive Comparison of Seaboard's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio
For the Conglomerates subindustry, Seaboard's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year Share Buyback 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's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Conglomerates Industry
For the Conglomerates industry and Industrials sector, Seaboard's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Seaboard's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio falls into.
This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from three years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with expontential compound based on the latest four years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).
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Seaboard (AMEX:SEB) 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation
A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.
Be Aware
Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.
Seaboard 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Related Terms
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Seaboard Corp is a diversified group of companies that operate in agricultural, energy, and ocean transport businesses. The company is engaged in hog production, biofuel 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's operating segments are; pork, commodity trading and milling, marine, liquid fuels, power, turkey, and others. It operates in 45 countries, with a concentration in the Caribbean, Central and South American region.
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