How to buy Cal-Maine Foods stock (CALM)

Cal-Maine Foods is a farm products business based in the US. Cal-Maine Foods shares (CALM) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $102.89 – a decrease of 4.84% over the previous week. Cal-Maine Foods employs 2,929 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.7 billion.

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Cal-Maine Foods stock price (NASDAQ: CALM)

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Cal-Maine Foods shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-18.

Latest market close	$102.89
52-week range	$50.85 - $114.06
50-day moving average more info button	$94.30
200-day moving average more info button	$71.76
Wall St. target price	$86.00
PE ratio more info button	11.8591
Dividend yield more info button	$2.902 (2.81%)
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$8.73

Is it a good time to buy Cal-Maine Foods stock?

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Cal-Maine Foods price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $104.37 from 2024-12-19

1 week (2024-12-13)	-3.47%
1 month (2024-11-22)	8.76%
3 months (2024-09-20)	39.66%
6 months (2024-06-21)	79.11%

1 year (2023-12-21)	86.11%
2 years (2022-12-21)	88.89%
3 years (2021-12-21)	241.06%
5 years (2019-12-20)	180.37%

Is Cal-Maine Foods stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Cal-Maine Foods stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Cal-Maine Foods's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Cal-Maine Foods's P/E ratio

Cal-Maine Foods's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 12x. In other words, Cal-Maine Foods shares trade at around 12x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Cal-Maine Foods's PEG ratio

Cal-Maine Foods's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.75. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Cal-Maine Foods's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Cal-Maine Foods's EBITDA

Cal-Maine Foods's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $589.1 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Cal-Maine Foods's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Cal-Maine Foods financials

Revenue TTM	$2.7 billion
Operating margin TTM	23.58%
Gross profit TTM	$337.1 million
Return on assets TTM	14.75%
Return on equity TTM	24.24%
Profit margin	16.09%
Book value	$38.80
Market Capitalization more info button	$5.1 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Cal-Maine Foods share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 35.83% of net profits

Recently Cal-Maine Foods has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Cal-Maine Foods shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Cal-Maine Foods's case, that would currently equate to about $2.902 per share.

While Cal-Maine Foods's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Cal-Maine Foods may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Cal-Maine Foods's most recent dividend payout was on 13 November 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 29 October 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Cal-Maine Foods's shares ever split?

Cal-Maine Foods's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 2 November 2014 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Cal-Maine Foods shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Cal-Maine Foods shares which in turn could have impacted Cal-Maine Foods's share price.

Cal-Maine Foods share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Cal-Maine Foods's shares have ranged in value from as little as $50.847 up to $114.06. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Cal-Maine Foods's is -0.132. This would suggest that Cal-Maine Foods's shares have been inversely-correlated to the average (for this exchange) – so when the broader market trended up or down, Cal-Maine Foods has bucked the trend.

Cal-Maine Foods overview

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production, grading, packaging, marketing, and distribution of shell eggs and egg products. The company offers specialty eggs, such as nutritionally enhanced, cage free, organic, free-range, pasture-raised, and brown eggs, as well as conventional eggs under the Egg-Land's Best, Land O' Lakes, Farmhouse Eggs, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, and 4-Grain brand names. It sells its products to various customers, including national and regional grocery store chains, club stores, independent supermarkets, foodservice distributors, and egg product consumers primarily in the southwestern, southeastern, mid-western, northeastern, and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The company was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi. .

Frequently asked questions

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What percentage of Cal-Maine Foods is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 8.011% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are held by insiders and 90.184% by institutions. How many people work for Cal-Maine Foods?
Latest data suggests 2,929 work at Cal-Maine Foods. When does the fiscal year end for Cal-Maine Foods?
Cal-Maine Foods's fiscal year ends in May. Where is Cal-Maine Foods based?
Cal-Maine Foods's address is: 1052 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland, MS, United States, 39157 What is Cal-Maine Foods's ISIN number?
Cal-Maine Foods's international securities identification number is: US1280302027 What is Cal-Maine Foods's CUSIP number?
Cal-Maine Foods's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 128030202