Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ:CALM) Issues Quarterly Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.49 EPS

Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ:CALM) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday. The basic materials company reported ($1.26) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.77) by ($0.49), FiscalAI reports. Cal-Maine Foods had a net margin of 10.88% and a return on equity of 11.79%. The company had revenue of $539.61 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $561.57 million.

Cal-Maine Foods Stock Down 4.9%

CALM opened at $65.20 on Wednesday. The business’s 50 day moving average is $79.83 and its two-hundred day moving average is $79.46. Cal-Maine Foods has a 52 week low of $63.20 and a 52 week high of $95.57. The firm has a market cap of $3.06 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.93 and a beta of 0.23.

Cal-Maine Foods News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting Cal-Maine Foods this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Cal-Maine remains the largest U.S. egg producer, and management’s ongoing operational investments—including a newly announced partnership with Speria–MTech Systems to improve financial reporting and operational visibility—could support longer-term efficiency. Speria–MTech Systems partnership article
• Neutral Sentiment: The company’s fiscal first quarter ended August 29, 2026, and results reflect a difficult comparison with the prior-year period, when unusually strong egg pricing helped produce substantial profits. Cal-Maine Foods fiscal 2027 first-quarter results
• Negative Sentiment: Cal-Maine swung to a $58.6 million net loss, or $1.26 per share, compared with a $199.3 million profit a year earlier. The loss was worse than analysts’ expected loss of $0.77 per share. Cal-Maine Foods Q1 loss article
• Negative Sentiment: Revenue fell approximately 42% to $539.6 million, below the $561.6 million consensus estimate. The decline was driven primarily by a roughly 59% drop in egg prices, reflecting weaker market conditions and oversupply. Wall Street Journal Cal-Maine earnings article
• Negative Sentiment: The earnings miss and abrupt deterioration in profitability explain the stock’s decline, with CALM trading well below its 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Investors may remain cautious until egg prices and supply-demand conditions improve. Barron’s Cal-Maine earnings article

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms have commented on CALM. The Goldman Sachs Group reissued a “neutral” rating and set a $70.00 price target on shares of Cal-Maine Foods in a research note on Friday, September 18th. Benchmark cut Cal-Maine Foods from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, September 4th. Wall Street Zen downgraded shares of Cal-Maine Foods from a “sell” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research report on Saturday. Stephens set a $80.00 target price on shares of Cal-Maine Foods and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, September 22nd. Finally, Weiss Ratings downgraded Cal-Maine Foods from a “hold (c)” rating to a “hold (c-)” rating in a research report on Thursday, July 23rd. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a Hold rating, According to data from MarketBeat, Cal-Maine Foods presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $88.86.

About Cal-Maine Foods

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc is a leading producer and distributor of shell eggs in the United States. The company manages a vertically integrated business that includes egg production, processing, packaging, marketing and distribution. Its products are sold to retail grocery chains, foodservice customers, food processors and institutional buyers.

Cal-Maine offers conventional shell eggs as well as specialty products, including cage-free, organic, brown, free-range and nutritionally enhanced eggs.