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Largest producer and marketer of shell eggs in the United States.
Largest producer and marketer of shell eggs in the United States.
Egg prices follow a market benchmark that moves with supply, so profit swings sharply from year to year while feed costs, mainly corn and soybean meal, are the main cost. Bird-flu outbreaks cut supply and lift prices, and a dividend policy tied to quarterly profit makes payouts rise and fall with the egg cycle.
Moat: narrow (scale, distribution). Largest US egg producer with scale in a low-margin, consolidating commodity industry.
Headquarters: Ridgeland, Mississippi, US · Founded: 1957 · Employees: 4,909
Size Cal-Maine Foods (CALM) is a United States Consumer Staples company (Agricultural Commodities/Milling) with a market value of $3.02B, the 1549th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $64.60 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares fell 15.1%, against -12.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 11th highest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue fell 42.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +8.0%); the operating margin is 0.7% (peer median 5.0%).
Valuation It trades at 0.9× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 1.2× (9th cheapest of 21).
Capital Return on invested capital runs 5.6 points below its cost of capital (6.4% WACC).
Short interest Short interest is 13.0% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).
Next results Next results expected around 6 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $2.53B | $2.91B | $4.26B | $2.33B | $3.15B |
| Revenue growth | — | -32% | +83% | -26% | — |
| Gross profit | $361M | $672M | $1.85B | $542M | $1.20B |
| EBITDA | $145M | $468M | $1.65B | $376M | $1.04B |
| Net income | $58.7M | $317M | $1.22B | $278M | $758M |
| Free cash flow | -$29.5M | $332M | $1.07B | $307M | $728M |
| Capital expenditure | $133M | $151M | $161M | $147M | $137M |
| Total debt | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | EV / Sales | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cal-Maine Foods CALM | $3.02B | -15% | -43% | 1% | 0.9× | n/a |
| Vital Farms VITL | $409M | +6% | +5% | -3% | 0.7× | n/a |
| Post POST | $3.65B | -19% | +6% | 10% | 1.3× | -2.1% |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | CALM | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | -0.3% | +0.8% | 10th lowest of 21 |
| 6-month return | -15.1% | -12.0% | 11th highest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -32.2% | -23.0% | 8th lowest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | -42.5% | +8.0% | lowest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 0.7% | 5.0% | 4th lowest of 21 |
| EV / Sales | 0.9× | 1.2× | 9th cheapest of 21 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | -5.6 pp | +0.6 pp | 5th lowest of 21 |
| EV / EBITDA | 15.5× | 7.7× | 2nd most expensive of 12 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | -5.3× | 1.5× | least indebted of 14 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | EV / Sales | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cal-Maine Foods CALM | United States | $3.02B | -15% | -43% | 1% | 0.9× | n/a | n/a |
| Jiangsu Lihua Animal Husbandry 300761.SZ | China | $2.94B | +2% | +7% | 3% | 1.1× | 4.0% | +16.8% |
| Ebro Foods EBRO.MC | Spain | $3.12B | +1% | -4% | 10% | 1.1× | -7.7% | +4.4% |
| Schouw & SCHO.CO | Denmark | $2.90B | +30% | -1% | 4% | 0.7× | -3.3% | +9.9% |
| First Resources Ltd. (Singapore) EB5.SI | Singapore | $3.27B | -26% | +51% | 30% | 2.1× | -7.1% | +19.0% |
| Fujian Sunner Development 002299.SZ | China | $3.28B | -7% | +13% | 5% | 1.3× | -1.0% | +7.9% |
| Seaboard SEB | United States | $3.38B | -22% | +7% | 3% | 0.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Golden Agri-Resources E5H.SI | Singapore | $2.68B | -18% | +9% | 6% | 0.4× | -13.7% | +11.6% |
| Godrej Industries GODREJIND.NS | India | $3.41B | -22% | +17% | 8% | 1.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Nichirei 2871.T | Japan | $3.42B | +13% | +10% | 5% | 0.8× | 2.4% | +4.6% |
| Yunnan Shennong Agricultural Industry 605296.SS | China | $2.60B | +10% | +2% | -19% | 3.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Curaleaf CURA.TO | Canada | $2.50B | -18% | +5% | 1% | 2.6× | n/a | n/a |
| Heilongjiang Agriculture 600598.SS | China | $3.66B | -18% | -12% | 24% | 4.6× | n/a | n/a |
| Fuji Oil 2607.T | Japan | $2.46B | +36% | +10% | 5% | 0.8× | 0.9% | +16.2% |
| Fujian Wanchen Food 300972.SZ | China | $3.86B | -43% | +46% | 7% | 0.3× | -18.7% | +157.9% |
| Cofco Sugar 600737.SS | China | $3.94B | -18% | -29% | 6% | 1.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Nisshin Seifun 2002.T | Japan | $3.94B | +14% | +3% | 5% | 0.7× | -1.1% | +4.9% |
| AWL Agri Business AWL.NS | India | $2.30B | -21% | +18% | 2% | 0.4× | 13.4% | +15.0% |
| Jiangxi Zhengbang Technology 002157.SZ | China | $3.97B | -17% | +15% | -10% | 1.6× | n/a | n/a |
| B.F BFG.MI | Italy | $2.29B | +56% | +30% | -2% | 1.6× | n/a | n/a |
| Trulieve Cannabis TRLV | United States | $2.23B | +31% | -4% | 14% | 2.2× | 13.5% | +17.8% |