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Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (CALM)

NASDAQ / Consumer Defensive / Agricultural Farm Products

Share price

63.59 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

2.97B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2026, filed Jul 22, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
16, FY2010 to FY2026
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

10.7% Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

9.56x Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

10.8% Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 1.07B USDFY2017 Net income: -74.3M USDFY2018 Revenue: 1.50B USDFY2018 Net income: 125.9M USDFY2019 Revenue: 1.36B USDFY2019 Net income: 54.2M USDFY2020 Revenue: 1.35B USDFY2020 Net income: 18.4M USDFY2021 Revenue: 1.35B USDFY2021 Net income: 2.1M USDFY2022 Revenue: 1.78B USDFY2022 Net income: 132.7M USDFY2023 Revenue: 3.15B USDFY2023 Net income: 758.0M USDFY2024 Revenue: 2.33B USDFY2024 Net income: 277.9M USDFY2025 Revenue: 4.26B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.22B USDFY2026 Revenue: 2.91B USDFY2026 Net income: 316.7M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 9.56x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2026 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits below the lowest.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (135 companies), 9.56x sits at the 13th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.84x to 33.63x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 10.7% in FY2026, in the band labelled "Around the cost of capital" (8.0% to 12.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (102 companies), 10.7% sits at the 64th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 2.7% to 14.1%.

Is it safe

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. held more cash than debt at the end of FY2026 (net cash of 107.2m USD), so net debt to EBITDA is a net cash position rather than a leverage reading.

Year by year against peers
Whether Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Consumer Defensive sector, year by year. (FY2022 to FY2026, 5 fiscal years of Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 filed years of Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (6 readings drawn from the statement lines Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., and where in its filings. (2 questions for Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.)

These are CALM’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2026 annual report: 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, accession 0001562762-26-000080.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax10.7% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Return on equity12.0% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Return on capital employed, pre-tax12.1% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Return on assets10.2% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Gross margin23.1% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Operating margin12.0% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Net margin10.9% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
CALM 10.9%
FRPT 12.6%LRN 13.4%FIZZ 15.6%COCO 11.7%TR 13.7%
10.9%15.6%
Net margin: CALM against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/a

The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Current ratio7.70 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Quick ratio5.87 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Altman Z-score6.99 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Net debt-924.1M ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Total assets 3.11BTotal liabilities 467.0MShareholders' equity 2.63BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Cal-Maine Foods, Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2026, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080).

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets3.11B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026
Total liabilities467.0M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026
Shareholders' equity2.63B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026
Cash924.1M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026
Total debt0.00 FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026
Net debt-924.1M
Current ratio7.70
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2026: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • Interest cover: FY2026: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings9.56x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
P/E on trailing twelve months50.17x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book1.15x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Price to sales1.04x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Enterprise value to EBIT8.37x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Enterprise value to EBITDA6.18x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Price to earnings over growth0.05 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Diluted earnings per share6.63 USD FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Graham number90.80 USD ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value CALM on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Cal-Maine Foods, Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc: valuation
Share price63.59 USD
Market capitalisation2.97B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA6.18x
Graham number90.80 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20266.63 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 2.82x, median 12.23x, high 946.25x, latest 50.17x. 2,001 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 520 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Cal-Maine Foods, Inc

  1. Freshpet, Inc. (FRPT)Market cap 3.33B USD
  2. Stride, Inc. (LRN)Market cap 3.46B USD
  3. National Beverage Corp. (FIZZ)Market cap 3.21B USD
  4. The Vita Coco Company, Inc. (COCO)Market cap 3.31B USD
  5. Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. (TR)Market cap 2.88B USD

Same sector (Consumer Defensive) and size band (Mid, 2B to 10B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield10.8% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Free cash flow328.5M USD ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Free cash flow margin11.3% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Dividend yield3.9% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Payout ratio73.1% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
FY2017 Free cash flow: -112.6M USDFY2017 Net income: -74.3M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 180.7M USDFY2018 Net income: 125.9M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 47.1M USDFY2019 Net income: 54.2M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: -50.6M USDFY2020 Net income: 18.4M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: -68.9M USDFY2021 Net income: 2.1M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 53.8M USDFY2022 Net income: 132.7M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 726.4M USDFY2023 Net income: 758.0M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 304.3M USDFY2024 Net income: 277.9M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 1.06B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.22B USDFY2026 Free cash flow: 328.5M USDFY2026 Net income: 316.7M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
9.56xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
1.15xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
8.37xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
10.8%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
10.7%FY2026Jul 22, 2026
3.9%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Jul 22, 2026
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
7.70FY2026Jul 22, 2026
1.04xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
0.05FY2026Oct 15, 2026
6.99FY2026Oct 15, 2026
-1.84FY2026Jul 22, 2026
5/9FY2026Jul 22, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2026, the newest full year on file. 16 filed fiscal years on record, FY2010 to FY2026, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026, read from the annual reports Cal-Maine Foods, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20262.91B350.2M316.7M6.63328.5M12.0%12.0%10-K, Jul 22, 20260001562762-26-000080
FY20254.26B1.54B1.22B24.951.06B36.0%47.6%10-K, Jul 22, 20250001562762-25-000170
FY20242.33B312.5M277.9M5.69304.3M13.4%15.4%10-K, Jul 23, 20240001562762-24-000177
FY20233.15B967.7M758.0M15.52726.4M30.8%47.0%10-K, Jul 25, 20230001562762-23-000287
FY20221.78B143.5M132.7M2.7253.8M8.1%12.0%10-K, Jul 19, 20220001562762-22-000297
FY20211.35B-26.3M2.1M0.04-68.9M-1.9%0.2%10-K, Jul 19, 20210001562762-21-000265
FY20201.35B1.3M18.4M0.38-50.6M0.1%1.8%10-K, Jul 20, 20200000016160-20-000078
FY20191.36B45.8M54.2M1.1247.1M3.4%5.5%10-K, Jul 22, 20190000016160-19-000048
FY20181.50B100.5M125.9M2.60180.7M6.7%13.2%10-K, Jul 23, 20180000016160-18-000071
FY20171.07B-134.1M-74.3M-1.54-112.6M-12.5%-8.8%10-K, Jul 24, 20170000016160-17-000017
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 11.7%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2017 and 2026, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2017 and 2026, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2017 and 2026, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-1.84 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 22, 2026, 0001562762-26-000080
Named tests met8 of 30 Computed
Beta0.31 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 8 met, 18 not met, 4 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Dividends and buybacks; ROIC at or above WACC; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Owner earnings yield; Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High yield, low payout; Near the 52-week low; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Not measured
Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); EV/EBITDA and coverage; Low beta, profitable; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(2)
  • Debt to Equity: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • Interest Coverage: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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  • 2 figures could not be read on this company: Debt to Equity, Interest Coverage. 4 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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