---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001562762-24-000075"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CALM"
cik: "0000016160"
company_name: "CAL-MAINE FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2024-04-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T03:34:11.985626+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cal-Maine Q3 net sales $703M down 29% YoY; EPS $3.00 vs $6.62; record volume but HPAI outbreaks continue

## Summary
- Net sales $703.1M vs $997.5M YoY; net income $146.4M ($3.00 diluted EPS) vs $323.2M ($6.62).
- Record total dozens sold 300.8M (+3.2%); specialty 108.6M (+4.4%).
- Conventional egg ASP $2.152/dozen (-41.5%); feed cost per dozen down 19.9% to $0.544.
- HPAI outbreaks: Kansas (1.5M hens) in Q3; Texas (1.6M hens, 337K pullets) post-quarter, 3.6% of flock.
- Dividend $1.00/share payable May 16; acquired Tyson Foods broiler plant in Dexter, MO post-quarter.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001562762-24-000075
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CALM
- cik: 0000016160
- company_name: CAL-MAINE FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2024-04-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000156276224000075/0001562762-24-000075-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000156276224000075/calm8k20240103.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001562762-24-000075
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001562762-24-000075.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  CAL-MAINE FOODS INC reported financial results for third quarter ended March 2, 2024.
  - Period: third quarter ended March 2, 2024
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On April 2, 2024, Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing its financial results for the third quarter ended March 2, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000156276224000075/0001562762-24-000075-index.htm

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