---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001562762-24-000003"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CALM"
cik: "0000016160"
company_name: "CAL-MAINE FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2024-01-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T04:41:46.209584+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cal-Maine Foods Q2 net income drops to $17.0M ($0.35/sh) vs $198.6M a year ago; HPAI, antitrust charges

## Summary
- Net sales $523.2M, down 34.7% YoY; total dozens sold up 1.4% to 288.2M.
- Conventional egg net avg price $1.458/dozen, down 49.4% YoY; specialty eggs $2.277/dozen, down 3.9%.
- Recorded $19.6M loss contingency accrual in SG&A for antitrust proceeding liability.
- Completed Fassio Egg Farms acquisition; agreed to buy Tyson Foods Dexter, MO facility (Q3 close).
- Post-Q2 HPAI outbreak in Kansas depopulated ~1.5M hens (~3.3% of flock); dividend $0.116/sh payable Feb 15, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001562762-24-000003
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CALM
- cik: 0000016160
- company_name: CAL-MAINE FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2024-01-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000156276224000003/0001562762-24-000003-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000156276224000003/calm8k20240103.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001562762-24-000003
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001562762-24-000003.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  CAL-MAINE FOODS INC reported financial results for second quarter of fiscal 2024 (thirteen weeks) ended December 2, 2023.
  - Period: second quarter of fiscal 2024 (thirteen weeks) ended December 2, 2023
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On January 3, 2024, Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing its financial results for the second quarter ended December 2, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000156276224000003/0001562762-24-000003-index.htm

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