In the latest trading session,, 1.02 million Cal-Maine Foods, Inc (NASDAQ:CALM) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.18. With the company’s most recent per share price at $122.6 changing hands around $17.89 or 17.08% at last look, the market valuation stands at $6.53B. CALM’s last price was a premium, traded about 5.05% off its 52-week high of $116.41. The share price had its 52-week low at $63.57, which suggests the last value was 48.15% up since then. When we look at Cal-Maine Foods, Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.76 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 804.27K.
Analysts gave the Cal-Maine Foods, Inc (CALM) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 3.00. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 3 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended CALM as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc (NASDAQ:CALM) trade information
Instantly CALM is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 17.33%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 88.03%, with the 5-day performance at 17.33% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Cal-Maine Foods, Inc (NASDAQ:CALM) is 20.72% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 5.44 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 6.93 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 76, meaning bulls need a downside of -61.32% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, CALM’s forecast low is 55 with 97 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 20.88% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 55.14% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 38.49%. The 2025 estimates are for Cal-Maine Foods, Inc earnings to decrease by -49.38%.
CALM Dividends
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Apr-08. The 5.53% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 6.77. It is important to note, however, that the 5.53% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 2.87 per year.
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc (NASDAQ:CALM)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 6.45% of Cal-Maine Foods, Inc shares while 90.70% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 96.96%. There are 90.70% institutions holding the Cal-Maine Foods, Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 13.865% of the shares, roughly 6.75 million CALM shares worth $412.77 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 9.6607% or 4.71 million shares worth $287.61 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of May 31, 2025 were iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and American Century ETF Trust-Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF . With 2.59 shares estimated at $323.32 million under it, the former controlled 5.35% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, American Century ETF Trust-Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF held about 2.79% of the shares, roughly 1.36 shares worth around $168.98 million.
