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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001562762-25-000082"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CALM"
cik: "0000016160"
company_name: "CAL-MAINE FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T19:02:44.298579+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cal-Maine Foods Q3 net income $508.5M, EPS $10.38; buys Echo Lake Foods for $258M

## Summary
- Diluted EPS of $10.38 vs $3.00, net sales $1.4B vs $703.1M in prior-year quarter.
- Record shell eggs sold 331.4M dozen (+10.2% YoY); net avg selling price $4.060/dozen vs $2.247.
- Definitive agreement to acquire Echo Lake Foods for ~$258M; expected to close by end of fiscal 2025.
- Cash dividend of ~$3.46/share payable May 15, 2025 to holders of record Apr 30, 2025.
- Board approved $500M share repurchase; DOJ civil investigative demand received in March 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001562762-25-000082
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CALM
- cik: 0000016160
- company_name: CAL-MAINE FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000156276225000082/0001562762-25-000082-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000156276225000082/calm8k20250408.htm

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