Cal-Maine Foods/$CALM
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About Cal-Maine Foods
Cal-Maine Foods Inc is an egg company in the U.S. Its shell egg portfolio includes conventional, specialty, cage-free, nutritionally enhanced, organic, brown, pasture-raised, and free-range eggs, serving retail and foodservice customers nationwide. It sells its products to national and regional grocery store chains, club stores, companies servicing independent supermarkets in the U.S., and foodservice distributors serving restaurants, convenience stores, healthcare and education facilities, and hotels throughout the majority of the U.S. The Conventional Shell Eggs segment generates maximum revenue and consists mainly of the production, grading, packaging, marketing, and distribution of shell eggs sold as conventional shell eggs.
- Ticker
- $CALM
- Sector
- Consumer Essentials
- Primary listing
- NASDAQ
- Employees
- 4,836
- Headquarters
- Ridgeland, United States
- Website
- www.calmainefoods.com
Cal-Maine Foods Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$3.5B
11.22
$6.63
0.23
$2.46
1.92%
Price and volume
Market cap
$3.5B
Beta
0.23
52-week high
$108.81
52-week low
$71.92
Average daily volume
848K
Dividend rate
$2.46
Financial strength
Current ratio
7.695
Quick ratio
5.783
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
73.14%
Interest coverage (TTM)
617.54%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
467.694
Gross margin (TTM)
23.08%
Net profit margin (TTM)
10.88%
Operating margin (TTM)
11.79%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
22.60%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$600,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
6.93%
Return on equity (TTM)
12.22%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
11.22
Price to revenue (TTM)
1.217
Price to book
1.33
Price to tangible book (TTM)
1.42
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
10.789
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
9.27%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
6.895
Dividend yield (TTM)
3.30%
Forward dividend yield
1.92%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
-31.68%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
-73.43%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
-2.55%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
4.31%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
-24.69%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
0.15%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
-21.93%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
1.23%
What the Analysts think about Cal-Maine Foods
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Bulls say / Bears say
Diversification is gaining meaningful scale: Specialty Shell Eggs plus Prepared Foods represented 53.0% of Q4 fiscal 2026 sales, while Prepared Foods generated a 14.6% operating margin and management expects total prepared-foods capacity to rise more than 60% through the first half of fiscal 2028. (Cal-Maine Foods)
Cal-Maine retains substantial financial flexibility to fund growth and repurchase shares: cash and short-term investments were $924.1 million at May 30, 2026, and $320.7 million remained under its $500 million buyback authorization. (Cal-Maine Foods)
The cyclical egg market may be approaching an earnings inflection: management reported that Urner Barry prices rose more than 90% in a few weeks after averaging $0.72 in the first five weeks of fiscal Q1, while improving supply-demand conditions could support stronger fall pricing. (Cal-Maine Foods)
Earnings remain highly exposed to commodity egg pricing: fiscal 2026 net sales fell 31.7% and operating income fell 77.2%; in Q4, conventional-egg average selling prices dropped 70.9% year over year. (Cal-Maine Foods)
Regulatory and reputational risk remains elevated after the DOJ and 17 states alleged coordinated manipulation of egg-price benchmarks. The proposed settlement imposes antitrust restrictions and requires Cal-Maine to pay $1.5 million and donate 30 million eggs, even though the company admitted no wrongdoing. (Associated Press)
The variable dividend has been suspended: Cal-Maine said it would not pay a Q4 fiscal 2026 dividend and must first recover a $35.9 million cumulative loss before future payments resume. This reduces near-term shareholder income and highlights the cyclicality of cash generation. (Cal-Maine Foods)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 10 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing Cal-Maine Foods
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Fund name | Fund size | $CALM weighting |
|---|---|---|
iShares Agribusiness€ISAE | €512M | 1.00% |
iShares Agribusiness£SPAG | £439M | 1.00% |
iShares S&P SmallCap 600$IDP6 | $3.2B | 0.19% |
iShares S&P Small Cap 600£ISP6 | £2.4B | 0.19% |
iShares MSCI USA Small Cap ESG Enhanced CTB€SXRG | €2.8B | 0.13% |
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