Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.: share-based compensation expense

At a glance

Cal-Maine Foods reported share-based compensation expense of $5.76 million for the year ending 2026-05-30, up 27.2% from $4.53 million a year earlier. From 2019 to 2026 it grew at a compound 6.9% a year, from $3.62 million to $5.76 million. Across the last five reported years it ranged from $4.06 million (2022-05-28) to $5.76 million (2026-05-30). That was 0.2% of revenue ($2.91 billion) for the same year.

Computed from the values in the table below, in USD; each links to the filing it came from.

What this measure means

Reported noncash expense for share-based payment arrangements. Noncash treatment does not mean the awards have no economic cost to shareholders.

Exact concept: us-gaap:ShareBasedCompensation. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2018-06-03 to 2026-05-30. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

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Entity

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. / CIK 0000016160

Captured

2026-09-19 14:44 UTC

SEC response SHA-256

7364d066b9d47d16e028c86d85c534dae87e099150d26aad56f301119b026c87

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000016160.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))