ANDERSONS, INC. vs Seaboard Corporation, two Wholesale stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
The Andersons runs grain handling, commodity trading, and renewables, a low-margin agribusiness earning 1.17% net and 9.82% on equity. Seaboard is a sprawling conglomerate of pork production, ag-commodity trading, and ocean shipping, and it earns a bit more, 10.99% on equity at a 5.99% margin. Both burned free cash over the trailing window, negative 4.32% at The Andersons and negative 0.33% at Seaboard. Seaboard trades below its own book at 0.84, cheaper on assets than The Andersons at 1.86, and carries far less debt, 0.18 against 0.98. Seaboard is priced at just 7.78 times earnings. Two commodity operators, both cheap, Seaboard the more lightly geared.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | ANDE | SEB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $72.19 | $4666.00 |
| Market cap | $2.5B | $4.5B |
| Sector | Wholesale | Wholesale |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +9.9% | -1.9% |
| P/E | — | 7.7 |
| P/B | 1.88 | 0.83 |
| P/S | 0.22 | 0.45 |
| EV/EBITDA | 28.2 | 8.6 |
| Revenue growth | -1.4% | +6.9% |
| Gross margin | 6.1% | 9.0% |
| Operating margin | — | 4.0% |
| Net margin | 1.2% | 6.0% |
| Return on equity | 9.8% | 11.0% |
| Return on assets | 3.3% | 7.0% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 3.9% |
| FCF yield | -4.3% | -0.3% |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | 0.2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.98 | 0.18 |
| Current ratio | 1.37 | 2.38 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.96 | 3.33 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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