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10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Watch For 2015: Cal-Maine Foods Inc (CALM)

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., incorporated on September 10, 1969, is a producer and marketer of shell eggs in the United States. During the fiscal year ended June 1, 2013 (fiscal 2013), the Company sold approximately 948.5 million dozen shell eggs. Its primary business is the production, grading, packaging, marketing and distribution of shell eggs. It sells most of its shell eggs in the southwestern, southeastern, mid-western and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Company markets its shell eggs through its distribution network to a group of customers, including national and regional grocery store chains, club stores, foodservice distributors and egg product manufacturers. It sells shell eggs to a majority of the food retailers in the United States. It is also a producers and marketers of specialty shell eggs in the United States. Specialty shell eggs include cage free and organic eggs. The Company owns 100% of Benton County Foods, LLC. In March 2014, the Company acqui red 50% interests of Delta Egg Farm, LLC from Sunbest Foods of Iowa, Inc., a Moark, LLC affiliate, as result Delta Egg Farm, LLC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

The Company markets its specialty shell eggs under various brands, such as Egg-Lands Best, Land O Lake, Farmhouse, and 4-Grain. It also produces specialty eggs, such as Egg-Lands Best, Land O Lake, Farmhouse, and 4-Grain. It has exclusive license agreements to market and distribute Egg-Lands Best specialty shell eggs in major metropolitan areas, including New York City, and a number of states in the southeast and southwest. It markets cage free eggs under its trademarked Farmhouse brand and distribute those shell eggs across the southeast and southwest regions of the United States. It markets organic, all natural, cage-free, vegetarian, and omega-3 eggs under its 4-Grain trademark. It also produces market and distributes private label specialty shell eggs to ! several customers . Sales of specialty shell eggs accounted for approximately 16.4% of its total shell egg dozen volumes during fiscal 2013.

The Companys operations are integrated. At its facilities, it hatches chicks, grows pullets, manufactures feed, and produces and distributes shell eggs. It produces approximately 95% of its chicks in its own hatcheries. It owns breeder facilities producing 18.5 million pullet chicks per year. These pullets are distributed to 42 laying operations around the southwestern, southeastern, mid-western and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The facilities produce an average of 1.9 million dozen shell eggs per day and process the shell eggs through grading and packaging without handling by human hands.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Shauna O'Brien]

  On Monday, Cal-Maine Foods Inc (CALM) reported lower first quarter profits as its production costs increased.

  The Jackson, MS-based company reported first quarter net income of $8.8 million, or 36 cents per share, down from $9.4 million, or 39 cents per share a year ago. On average, analysts expected to see earnings of 36 cents per share.

  Total revenue for the quarter rose 17% to $319.5 million from $272.9 million last year.

  CALM reported that its feed costs rose 7% during the quarter, but the company is expecting these costs to fall for the rest of FY2014.

  Cal-Maine has also declared its next dividend payment of 6.8 cents. This dividend will be paid on November 14 to shareholders of record on October 30.

  Cal-Maine Foods shares were mostly flat during pre-market trading Monday. The stock is up 22% YTD.

• [By Alex Planes]

  Sysco has avoided the margin compression suffered by chicken producers Tyson (NYSE: TSN  ) and Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ: CALM  ) and which was more deeply felt by smaller food-service operator Nash-Finch (NASDAQ: NAFC  ) . (It is omitted from this chart due to its drop into out! right neg! ative operating margin territory (a decline of roughly 250% in two years.) However, fellow food-service company United Natural Foods (NASDAQ: UNFI  ) has actually improved its margins, and restaurant chains both large and small (well, mid-size) have done an admirable job of holding the margin line in the face of rising input costs. So it appears that scale alone isn't enough to help Sysco outrun the rising costs of its products.

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