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๐Ÿ“„ Earnings Call Transcript ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ

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Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ:CALM) Q1 2026 Earnings Call October 1, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

Company Participants

Sherman Miller - CEO, President & Director
Max Bowman - VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director

Conference Call Participants

Heather Jones - Heather Jones Research LLC
Pooran Sharma - Stephens Inc., Research Division
Leah Jordan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division
Benjamin Mayhew - BMO Capital Markets Equity Research

Presentation

Operator

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Cal-Maine Foods First Quarter Fiscal 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this call is being recorded.
์นผ-๋ฉ”์ธ ํ‘ธ์ฆˆ(Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.) (NASDAQ:CALM) 2026๋…„๋„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ 2025๋…„ 10์›” 1์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 9์‹œ (๋™๋ถ€ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ)

์ฐธ์„์ž

ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž
์…”๋จผ ๋ฐ€๋Ÿฌ(Sherman Miller) - CEO, ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ
๋งฅ์Šค ๋ณด์šฐ๋จผ(Max Bowman) - ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ, CFO, ์žฌ๋ฌด๋‹ด๋‹น์ž, ๋น„์„œ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ

์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„์ž
ํ—ค๋” ์กด์Šค(Heather Jones) - ํ—ค๋” ์กด์Šค ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ LLC
ํ‘ธ๋ž€ ์ƒค๋ฅด๋งˆ(Pooran Sharma) - ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ์Šค(Stephens Inc.), ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋ฆฌ์•„ ์กฐ๋˜(Leah Jordan) - ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฃน(Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.), ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋ฒค์ž๋ฏผ ๋ฉ”์ดํœด(Benjamin Mayhew) - BMO ์บํ”ผํ„ธ ๋งˆ์ผ“์ธ  ์ฃผ์‹ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜

๋ฐœํ‘œ

์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. ์นผ-๋ฉ”์ธ ํ‘ธ์ฆˆ 2026๋…„๋„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ] ์ด ํ†ตํ™”๋Š” ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I will now turn the call over to Sherman Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cal-Maine Foods. Please go ahead. Sherman Miller
CEO, President & Director

Good morning, and thank you for joining us today. We appreciate your interest in Cal-Maine Foods and the opportunity to share our results and outlook. This is an important milestone for us as it marks our first ever earnings call. It's an important part of our commitment to a more robust Investor Relations strategy aimed at increasing visibility into the institutional investment community and providing stakeholders with increased transparency into our business.
์ด์ œ Cal-Maine Foods์˜ ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž์ธ Sherman Miller์—๊ฒŒ ํ†ตํ™”๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

Sherman Miller
CEO, ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €ํฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Cal-Maine Foods์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ๊ณผ ์ €ํฌ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐ ์ „๋ง์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์‹  ์ ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ์ด ์ €ํฌ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์‹ค์ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ด์ •ํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ด€ํˆฌ์ž์ž ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์‹œ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋œ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์ „๋žต์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ์•ฝ์†์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Before we begin, I want to remind everyone that today's remarks may include forward-looking statements. These are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risk and uncertainties described in our SEC filings. I want to start the call today with an expression of humbleness and gratitude. I'm humbled each morning in realizing the dedication and strength of our Cal-Maine family. I'm truly grateful to have the opportunity to represent each and every one of them on this call today. I'd like to recognize a few folks who have been a huge part of building the Cal-Maine foundation, which is the platform that we operate from today.์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์•ž์„œ, ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ๋“ค์€ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์˜ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, SEC ์ œ์ถœ์„œ๋ฅ˜์— ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋œ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์„ ๊ฒธ์†ํ•จ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ผ ์•„์นจ Cal-Maine ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์˜ ํ—Œ์‹ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ•์ธํ•จ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฒธ์†ํ•ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ์—์„œ Cal-Maine์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์›๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ธ Cal-Maine์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํฐ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Cal-Maine has always been about people, our over 4,000 employees, our customers, our communities and our shareholders. Every day, our team demonstrates the discipline, accountability and frugalness that have defined this company from the very beginning. We stand on the shoulders of our Founder, Fred Adams, and leaders like Dolph Baker, who remains an important guide as Board Chair. Also, there is a long list that have mentored both me and our management team as a whole. I'd like to name just a few.์นผ-๋ฉ”์ธ์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4,000๋ช…์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ์ง์›๋“ค, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค, ์ง€์—ญ์‚ฌํšŒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ฃผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ •์˜ํ•ด์˜จ ๊ทœ์œจ, ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฒ€์†Œํ•จ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ์ž์ธ ํ”„๋ ˆ๋“œ ์• ๋ค์Šค์™€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์˜์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ง€์นจ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด์ฃผ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๋Œํ”„ ๋ฒ ์ด์ปค์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค์˜ ์–ด๊นจ ์œ„์— ์„œ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ €์™€ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ฉ˜ํ† ๋งํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๋งŒ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Steve Storm, Bob Scott, Jack Self, David Jenkins, Marc Ashby, all previous vice presidents of operations; Bobby Raines and Tim Dawson, previous CFOs; Jeff Hardin and Ken Paramore, both previous Vice President of Sales. Ken Looper, former President; Joe Wyatt, former Vice President of Feed Mills; Charlie Collins and Mike Castleberry, both former Controllers. There are many more to thank, but for the sake of time, I just want to say a very simple and humble thank you to all of our employees, both past and present. Each has contributed to building a strong foundation that is in place today. The cornerstones of that foundation are simple.์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์Šคํ†ฐ, ๋ฐฅ ์Šค์ฝง, ์žญ ์…€ํ”„, ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ ์  ํ‚จ์Šค, ๋งˆํฌ ์• ์‹œ๋น„, ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ „์ž„ ์šด์˜ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋น„ ๋ ˆ์ธ์ฆˆ์™€ ํŒ€ ๋„์Šจ, ์ „์ž„ CFO๋“ค; ์ œํ”„ ํ•˜๋”˜๊ณผ ์ผ„ ํŒŒ๋ผ๋ชจ์–ด, ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ์ „์ž„ ์˜์—… ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ„ ๋ฃจํผ ์ „ ์‚ฌ์žฅ; ์กฐ ์™€์ด์–ดํŠธ ์ „ ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ๊ณต์žฅ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ; ์ฐฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฝœ๋ฆฐ์Šค์™€ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ ์บ์Šฌ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ, ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ์ „์ž„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ถ€์žฅ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆด ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ƒ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์™€ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒธ์†ํ•œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ง์”€์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์ž๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์ž๋ฆฌ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์ดˆ์„๋“ค์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We have broad scale, which provides us significant benefits. Our vertically integrated model allows us to manage every step of production, which keeps costs low, enables supply reliability, safeguards quality and food safety, and gives us the flexibility to optimize output. This is also a significant competitive advantage. Our culture, what we refer to as the Cal-Maine Way is one focused on operational excellence. We define operational excellence as an unwavering focus on the fundamentals. That means investing in modernization, embedding biosecurity and applying the Cal-Maine way of accountability across our operations.์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ด์ต์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ˆ˜์งํ†ตํ•ฉ ๋ชจ๋ธ์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๋‚ฎ๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ’ˆ์งˆ๊ณผ ์‹ํ’ˆ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์šฐ์œ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ Cal-Maine Way๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ์—…๋ฌธํ™”๋Š” ์šด์˜ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์„ฑ์— ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘ก๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์šด์˜ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์„ฑ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์›์น™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ”๋“ค๋ฆผ ์—†๋Š” ์ง‘์ค‘์œผ๋กœ ์ •์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ํ™”์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒ๋ฌผ๋ณด์•ˆ์„ ๋‚ด์žฌํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์šด์˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ Cal-Maine Way์˜ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์„ ์ ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
With respect to biosecurity, we've invested more than $80 million in equipment, procedures and training to safeguard flock health and mitigate the risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza since 2015. Unfortunately, high-path AI remains a reality for the industry. Financially, we're operating from a position of strength with a great balance sheet and enough cash to opportunistically pursue acquisitions in furtherance of our strategy. Finally, as I mentioned, we have a fantastic team with significant depth and experience. Speaking of our team, I'd like to welcome Melanie Boulden and Keira Lombardo to Cal-Maine.์ƒ๋ฌผ๋ณด์•ˆ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2015๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ฐ€๊ธˆ๋ฅ˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์—”์ž์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์žฅ๋น„, ์ ˆ์ฐจ ๋ฐ ๊ต์œก์— 8์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์„ ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆํƒ€๊น๊ฒŒ๋„ ๊ณ ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ AI๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ํ˜„์‹ค๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฌด์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š”, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ์™€ ์ „๋žต ์ถ”์ง„์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ธ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐํšŒ์ฃผ์˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์—์„œ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์•ž์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊นŠ์ด์™€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ํ™˜์ƒ์ ์ธ ํŒ€์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํŒ€๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, Melanie Boulden๊ณผ Keira Lombardo๋ฅผ Cal-Maine์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Melanie, who joins our Board of Directors has deep expertise in the food and beverage industry and nearly 3 decades of global business management, brand building and experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Kraft and most recently, Tyson. Keira was recently appointed as the company's first-ever Chief Strategy Officer. Like Melanie, Keira has significant experience working with consumer-facing companies. She will work with our senior leadership team to further accelerate and shape enterprise priorities, building on Cal-Maine Foods' leadership role in a rapidly changing marketplace.์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•œ ๋ฉœ๋ผ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์‹์Œ๋ฃŒ ์—…๊ณ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 30๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ตฌ์ถ• ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฝ”์นด์ฝœ๋ผ, ํฌ๋ž˜ํ”„ํŠธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ตœ๊ทผ์—๋Š” ํƒ€์ด์Šจ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋“ค์—์„œ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ‚ค๋ผ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ ์ „๋žต์ฑ…์ž„์ž(Chief Strategy Officer)๋กœ ์ž„๋ช…๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฉœ๋ผ๋‹ˆ์™€ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ, ํ‚ค๋ผ๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋Œ€๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ธ‰๋ณ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ Cal-Maine Foods์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์—… ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์ฒดํ™”ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our foundation and strong business momentum allowed us to deliver the strongest first quarter in our history and also reflects the benefits of diversification, the strength of our operations and the progress we've made in positioning Cal-Maine for the future. Specifically, our results were driven by strong growth in specialty eggs and the expansion of our prepared foods platform, supported by solid performance in conventional eggs. Together, specialty eggs and prepared foods accounted for nearly 40% of net sales, underscoring their central role in Cal-Maine's strategy and long-term financial performance. These results show Cal-Maine advancing as a diversified consumer-driven food company.์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜๊ณผ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‹ค๊ฐํ™”์˜ ํ˜œํƒ, ์šด์˜์˜ ๊ฐ•์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Cal-Maine์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด๋ฃฌ ์ง„์ „์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹ค์ ์€ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ํ™•์žฅ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋„๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€์˜ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€๊ณผ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์„ ํ•ฉ์ณ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์˜ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 40%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” Cal-Maine์˜ ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ์—์„œ ์ด๋“ค์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” Cal-Maine์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐํ™”๋œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ค‘์‹ฌ ์‹ํ’ˆ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our conventional egg business continues to provide stability and scale, while specialty eggs and prepared foods are increasingly shaping the future of our portfolio. Specialty eggs and prepared foods are positioned as growth engines, shifting our mix toward higher-value categories. And across it all, our vertical integration and financial strength ensure that we can execute with discipline and resilience. With that, let me turn the call over to our Chief Financial Officer, Max Bowman, to drill down into our results for the quarter and discuss our capital allocation framework. Max? Max Bowman
VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director

Thanks, Sherman, and good morning, everyone.
์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ์กด ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€๊ณผ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์ด ์ ์  ๋” ์ €ํฌ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€๊ณผ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์€ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋™๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค๋ฅผ ๋” ๋†’์€ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ, ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ง๊ณ„์—ดํ™”์™€ ์žฌ๋ฌด์  ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๊ณ  ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋ณด์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด์ œ ์ €ํฌ ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž์ธ ๋งฅ์Šค ๋ณด์šฐ๋งŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ฒจ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ž๋ณธ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งฅ์Šค?

**๋งฅ์Šค ๋ณด์šฐ๋งŒ**
๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ, CFO, ์žฌ๋ฌด๋‹ด๋‹น์ž, ๋น„์„œ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ

์…”๋จผ, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
Thanks for tuning into our first live earnings call. This is a new format to us and is part of an increased focus on our part to deliver increased transparency to all of our stakeholders. As a reminder, we published our earnings release and 10-Q this morning. Additionally, we have published a brief earnings presentation on our website. These documents contain detailed information on our financial results. I'll touch on the highlights for the first quarter of fiscal 2026. Net sales were $922.6 million, up 17.4% from $785.9 million last year. The increase was driven by increase in shell egg sales and from contributions from our recent acquisitions in the prepared foods space.์ €ํฌ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ์‹ค์ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ˜•์‹์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์—ฌ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ฆ์ง„๋œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ์ผํ™˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์‹ค์  ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ 10-Q ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ๊ฐ„๋žตํ•œ ์‹ค์  ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜์„ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธ์„œ๋“ค์—๋Š” ์ €ํฌ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒ์„ธํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ•˜์ด๋ผ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 9์–ต 2,260๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ž‘๋…„ 7์–ต 8,590๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ 17.4% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ป์งˆ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ์˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Shell egg sales were $789.4 million, up 6.5%, driven by a 3.9% increase in net average selling price for shell eggs and a 7.5% increase in specialty egg sales volume. Shell eggs represented 85.6% of total net sales. That's down 880 basis points from last year as our portfolio mix diversified into prepared foods. Specialty eggs generated $283.5 million in sales, up 10% with double-digit growth in cage-free and pasture-raised. Specialty eggs account for more than 30% of net sales. Conventional egg sales generated $505.9 million in sales, up 4%. Prepared foods delivered $83.9 million in sales, an increase of over 800% with Echo Lake Foods contributing sales of $70.5 million.๊ป์งˆ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 7์–ต 8,940๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ 6.5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ป์งˆ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์˜ ์ˆœํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด 3.9% ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜๊ณ  ํŠน์ˆ˜๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰์ด 7.5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๋ฐ ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ป์งˆ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์€ ์ „์ฒด ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 85.6%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๋ฏน์Šค๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐํ™”๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 880 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šคํฌ์ธํŠธ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ˆ˜๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์€ 2์–ต 8,350๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ 10% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ผ€์ด์ง€ํ”„๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ชฉ์ดˆ๋ฐฉ๋ชฉ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์—์„œ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ˆ˜๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์€ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 30% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 5์–ต 590๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ 4% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์€ 8,390๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ 800% ์ด์ƒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ์ค‘ Echo Lake Foods๊ฐ€ 7,050๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Prepared foods represented more than 9% of our net sales this quarter. This shift in mix demonstrates how specialty eggs and prepared foods are shaping our portfolio towards higher-margin categories. Gross profit was $311.3 million or 33.7% of net sales, up from $247.2 million or 31.5% of net sales last year. This nearly 26% improvement in gross profit was driven primarily by higher shell egg selling prices, growth in our specialty egg sales volume, lower feed costs and contributions from prepared foods. Operating income was $249.2 million or 27% of net sales compared with $187 million or 23.8% a year ago, a 320 basis point improvement.์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 9% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏน์Šค ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€๊ณผ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ๋” ๋†’์€ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ด์ต์€ 3์–ต 1,130๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 33.7%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 2์–ต 4,720๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 31.5%)์—์„œ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ด์ต์˜ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 26% ๊ฐœ์„ ์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๊ป์งˆ ๊ณ„๋ž€ ํŒ๋งค๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน, ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ๋น„ ์ ˆ๊ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์—…์ด์ต์€ 2์–ต 4,920๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 27%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 1์–ต 8,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(23.8%)์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ 320bp ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Net income was $199.3 million or $4.12 per diluted share, up from $150 million or $3.06 per diluted share last year. These improvements were driven by higher average selling prices for shell eggs and the incremental contributions from prepared foods. Turning to cost and expenses. Our feed costs were actually a source of support this quarter. On a per dozen basis, feed costs decreased about 4% year-over-year, driven primarily by lower soybean mill prices. That reduction translated into roughly $6 million of savings in cost of sales. SG&A expenses increased modestly, up about 12% from the prior year.์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 1์–ต 9,930๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ํฌ์„์ฃผ๋‹น 4.12๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„์˜ 1์–ต 5,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ํฌ์„์ฃผ๋‹น 3.06๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์€ ๊ป์งˆ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์˜ ํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน๊ณผ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์ฆ๋ถ„ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ์ง€์ถœ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ๋น„๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์š”์†Œ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Šค๋‹น ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ๋น„๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 4% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋Œ€๋‘๋ฐ• ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ•˜๋ฝ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€์—์„œ ์•ฝ 600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 12% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์†Œํญ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This was largely tied to higher sales volumes and the integration of Echo Lake Foods, which drove higher delivery expense and other overhead. Marketing was essentially unchanged. Importantly, these added SG&A costs have directly supported growth in both shell eggs and prepared foods. In fact, SG&A as a percentage of sales decreased slightly from the prior year. On the production side, capacity expansion and rebuild post HPAI is also supporting our growth. Breeder flocks increased 46%, chicks hatched were up 77%, and the average number of layer hens rose 10%. We sold 2.5% more dozens year-over-year, with specialty dozens increasing 7.5%.์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋†’์€ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ Echo Lake Foods์˜ ํ†ตํ•ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ์€ ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋œ ํŒ๊ด€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๊ป์งˆ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊ณต์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ํŒ๊ด€๋น„ ๋น„์œจ์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์†Œํญ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” HPAI(๊ณ ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์—”์ž) ์ดํ›„ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ํ™•์žฅ๊ณผ ์žฌ๊ฑด์ถ•๋„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข…๊ณ„ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋Š” 46% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ถ€ํ™”ํ•œ ๋ณ‘์•„๋ฆฌ๋Š” 77% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ‰๊ท  ์‚ฐ๋ž€๊ณ„ ์ˆ˜๋Š” 10% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 2.5% ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋‹ค์Šค๋ฅผ ํŒ๋งคํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์€ 7.5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our growth is not only driven by pricing, but also by real volume expansion supported by long-term investments in our capacity. We continue to see tangible benefits from our modernization initiatives and in-line facilities. These investments enhance yields, improve our productivity and reinforce our low-cost positioning. The Cal-Maine Way, embedding best practices and process innovation remains central to our ability to operate efficiently. Operating cash flow was very strong at $278.6 million, more than double last year's level of $117.5 million. We ended the quarter with $252 million in cash and equivalents and $1 billion in investments, and we remain virtually debt-free.์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ํˆฌ์ž์— ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋œ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰ ํ™•๋Œ€์— ์˜ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„๋Œ€ํ™” ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์™€ ์ธ๋ผ์ธ ์‹œ์„ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ฐ€์‹œ์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ์ˆ˜์œจ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ €๋น„์šฉ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋ฒ”์‚ฌ๋ก€์™€ ๊ณต์ • ํ˜์‹ ์„ ๋‚ด์žฌํ™”ํ•œ Cal-Maine Way๋Š” ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์šด์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์—…ํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์€ 2์–ต 7,860๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 1์–ต 1,750๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ ์ด์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ํ˜„์žฌ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ฐ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์„ฑ์ž์‚ฐ 2์–ต 5,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์‚ฐ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๋ฌด๋ถ€์ฑ„ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our capital allocation approach is centered on maximizing total shareholder return, and we view it through five lenses. First, our dividends. Consistent with our standing dividend policy, we will pay a dividend of $1.37 per share payable November 13 to shareholders of record on October 29. Second, share repurchases. We plan to take an opportunistic approach to share repurchases, guided by our broader commitment to disciplined capital deployment. Depending on circumstances, we may use different methods to execute buybacks such as open market purchases, accelerated programs or prearranged trading plans. Third, earnings per share growth.์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์€ ์ด ์ฃผ์ฃผ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ  ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์„ฏ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๊ธˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฐฐ๋‹น ์ •์ฑ…์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ 10์›” 29์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์ผ ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ 11์›” 13์ผ ์ง€๊ธ‰ ์˜ˆ์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋‹น 1.37๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๊ธˆ์„ ์ง€๊ธ‰ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘˜์งธ, ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ์น˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํญ๋„“์€ ์•ฝ์†์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์— ๊ธฐํšŒ์ฃผ์˜์  ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์„ ์ทจํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์‹œ์žฅ ๋งค์ž…, ๊ฐ€์† ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ „ ๊ณ„ํš๋œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ณ„ํš ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์…‹์งธ, ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต ์„ฑ์žฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This is supported by disciplined reinvestment in our business, particularly in modernization, margin expansion initiatives and efficiency programs. Fourth, M&A. We are focused on related areas, geographic expansion and opportunities that meet strict financial return thresholds while strengthening our supply position. Prepared foods is a great example of this, where the best investments is in our sales and the fast-growing subcategories we are building. And finally, multiple expansion. Over time, as we shift our mix and deliver higher quality, more predictable earnings, we believe Cal-Maine Foods will be positioned for a valuation that reflects that improvement.์ด๋Š” ํŠนํžˆ ํ˜„๋Œ€ํ™”, ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์—… ์žฌํˆฌ์ž๋กœ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ท์งธ, M&A์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ถ„์•ผ, ์ง€์—ญ ํ™•์žฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์  ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ  ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๊ณต์‹ํ’ˆ์ด ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์˜ˆ์‹œ๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ํ•˜์œ„ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐํ”Œ ํ™•์žฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค๋ฅผ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋” ๋†’์€ ํ’ˆ์งˆ์˜, ๋” ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, Cal-Maine Foods๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐธ๋ฅ˜์—์ด์…˜์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In short, our strong cash generation allows us to fund growth, support our dividend, be opportunistic on repurchases and pursue disciplined M&A. In turn, these actions create even more cash flow for future deployment. That concludes my review of the financial results. I'll now turn the call back to Sherman for additional commentary on where we are going strategically. Sherman Miller
CEO, President & Director

Thanks, Max. Let me close by reinforcing a few themes. Cal-Maine is the largest egg producer in the United States with significant scale and vertical integration that delivers efficiency, lower cost and supply reliability.
์š”์•ฝํ•˜๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ์ฐฝ์ถœ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์€ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ž๊ธˆ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ, ๋ฐฐ๋‹น ์ง€์›, ๊ธฐํšŒ์  ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ M&A ์ถ”์ง„์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ฐฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋””๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋…ผํ‰์„ ์œ„ํ•ด Sherman์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Sherman Miller
CEO, ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ

๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Max. ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Cal-Maine์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ตœ๋Œ€์˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์—…์ฒด๋กœ์„œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ, ์ €๋น„์šฉ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์™€ ์ˆ˜์ง ํ†ตํ•ฉ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
But scale alone is not enough, consumers are demanding more choice, more convenience and more protein-rich foods. Our mission is to meet that demand with a diversified portfolio that ranges from conventional eggs to specialty eggs and increasingly into prepared foods. Specialty eggs and prepared foods are not promises for tomorrow, they are delivering today. Over time, we expect them to continue to improve the quality of our earnings and lead to margin expansion. We are executing a strategy to create a stronger, more predictable Cal-Maine. That strategy, of course, has the strong M&A component embedded in it, supported by a robust pipeline of disciplined accretive opportunities.ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์€ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์„ ํƒ๊ถŒ, ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํŽธ์˜์„ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ์‹ํ’ˆ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ ์  ๋” ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€๊ณผ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์€ ๋‚ด์ผ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์•ฝ์†์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ˆ˜์ต์˜ ์งˆ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋” ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ Cal-Maine์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ด ์ „๋žต์—๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ M&A ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด์žฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์น˜์ฐฝ์ถœ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•œ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์˜ ์ง€์›์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Echo Lake is a great example of how we're executing. Since the acquisition in June, utilization has ramped quickly, and we are on track to exceed every financial and operational expectation we set forth at the time of the acquisition. We've already approved a new $14.8 million investment in a high-speed pancake production line at our Burlington, Wisconsin facility, which will expand capacity, add automation and improve packaging to capture accelerating customer demand. Projects like this will increase efficiency and scale, and they demonstrate our approach to disciplined investments in extensions and subcategories with attractive returns supported by strong consumer demand.Echo Lake๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 6์›” ์ธ์ˆ˜ ์ดํ›„ ๊ฐ€๋™๋ฅ ์ด ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ธ์ˆ˜ ๋‹น์‹œ ์„ค์ •ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์žฌ๋ฌด์  ๋ฐ ์šด์˜์  ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ๊ถค๋„์— ์˜ฌ๋ผ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์œ„์Šค์ฝ˜์‹ ์ฃผ ๋ฒŒ๋งํ„ด ์†Œ์žฌ ์‹œ์„ค์— ๊ณ ์† ํŒฌ์ผ€์ดํฌ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋ผ์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ 1,480๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์Šน์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž๋™ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํฌ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋“ค์€ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋Œ€์‹œํ‚ฌ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ˆ˜์š”์— ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋œ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ํ™•์žฅ ๋ฐ ํ•˜์œ„ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We're becoming a house of brands from Egg-Landโ€™s Best, Land O'Lakes, Farmhouse Eggs, 4Grain, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, MeadowCreek Foods to Crepini, reaching consumers across national, regional and private label programs. We account for roughly half of all Egg-Landโ€™s Best sales, which remains the #1 brand of specialty eggs in the United States. Our scale, vertical integration and financial discipline provide a strong foundation, while specialty eggs and prepared foods are proven growth engines delivering higher quality, more consistent earnings. Together, these strengths make Cal-Maine a compelling combination of both value and growth in today's food sector.์ €ํฌ๋Š” Egg-Land's Best, Land O'Lakes, Farmhouse Eggs, 4Grain, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, MeadowCreek Foods์—์„œ Crepini์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „๊ตญ, ์ง€์—ญ ๋ฐ ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ(PB) ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด 1์œ„ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋Š” Egg-Land's Best ๋งค์ถœ์˜ ์•ฝ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ, ์ˆ˜์ง ํ†ตํ•ฉ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ทœ์œจ์€ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊ณต์‹ํ’ˆ์€ ๋” ๋†’์€ ํ’ˆ์งˆ๊ณผ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ์ž…์ฆ๋œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋™๋ ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ•์ ๋“ค์ด ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋˜์–ด Cal-Maine์€ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์‹ํ’ˆ ์„นํ„ฐ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์น˜์™€ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์กฐํ•ฉ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
At the same time, our mission is clear. We provide one of the most nutrient-dense, affordable sources of protein available. That matters today more than ever. Eggs are purchased by 97% of U.S. households and remain one of the lowest cost sources of high-quality protein. Consumers are eating more protein overall with high-protein diets ranking as the most common eating pattern for the third consecutive year. Eggs fits squarely into that trend because they are fresh, versatile and cost-effective. Specialty formats and ready-to-eat products extend that value proposition, giving people more ways to include eggs in their diets.๋™์‹œ์— ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜์–‘์†Œ ๋ฐ€๋„๊ฐ€ ๋†’๊ณ  ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์› ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฐ€์ •์˜ 97%๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ณ ํ’ˆ์งˆ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์› ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์€ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์„ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ ์‹๋‹จ์ด 3๋…„ ์—ฐ์† ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์‹์Šต๊ด€ ํŒจํ„ด์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์€ ์‹ ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ™œ์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋น„์šฉ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์— ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ˆ˜ ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์ฆ‰์„ ์„ญ์ทจ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์‹๋‹จ์— ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์„ ํฌํ•จ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This is not just about chasing trends, it's about meeting fundamental needs for nutrition, affordability and value in the American diet. Looking forward, our strategy is clear. We will, number one, expand specialty and prepared foods; number two, leverage vertical integration and operational excellence to remain a low-cost reliable supplier; and number three, pursue disciplined M&A to drive mix uplift, expand geographically and create long-term stockholder value. Cal-Maine combines scale, vertical integration and financial strength with proven growth from specialty and prepared foods.์ด๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ซ“๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ์‹๋‹จ์—์„œ ์˜์–‘, ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์น˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต์€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, ํŠน์ˆ˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€๊ณต์‹ํ’ˆ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‘˜์งธ, ์ˆ˜์ง ํ†ตํ•ฉ๊ณผ ์šด์˜ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์„ฑ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ €๋น„์šฉ์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์…‹์งธ, ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ M&A๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋„๋ชจํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€๋ฆฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Cal-Maine์€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ, ์ˆ˜์ง ํ†ตํ•ฉ, ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ์„ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€๊ณต์‹ํ’ˆ์—์„œ์˜ ์ž…์ฆ๋œ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Conventional eggs provide a strong foundation, while consumer demand for protein and the relative affordability of eggs create powerful tailwinds. Our disciplined capital allocation and operational excellence reinforce this advantage. We are confident that the initiatives we're executing today will translate into durable growth, stronger margins and higher returns for our shareholders. I want to close by thanking the entire Cal-Maine team for their dedication, our customers for their trust and our stockholders for their continued support. With that, I'll turn the call back over to the operator to begin the Q&A portion of today's call.์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€์€ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ˆ˜์š”์™€ ๊ณ„๋ž€์˜ ์ƒ๋Œ€์  ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ์ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ˆœํ’์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„๊ณผ ์šด์˜ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์„ฑ์ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์ด ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ๋” ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ง„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ํ—Œ์‹ ์ ์ธ Cal-Maine ํŒ€ ์ „์ฒด, ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ฃผ์‹  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ง€์›์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ์ฃผ์ฃผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์˜ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

โ€ข ์ฃผ์š” ์‹ค์ 
- 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ 9์–ต2,260๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ (์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 17.4% ์ฆ๊ฐ€)
- ์ˆœ์ด์ต 1์–ต9,930๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ (์ฃผ๋‹น 4.12๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ)
- ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  27% (์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 320bp ์ƒ์Šน)

โ€ข ์‚ฌ์—… ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๋ณ€ํ™”
- ํŠน์ˆ˜๋ž€๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊ณต์‹ํ’ˆ์ด ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 40% ์ฐจ์ง€
- ํŠน์ˆ˜๋ž€ ๋งค์ถœ 2์–ต8,350๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ (10% ์ฆ๊ฐ€)
- Echo Lake Foods ์ธ์ˆ˜๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ณต์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ํฐ ํญ ์„ฑ์žฅ

โ€ข ์ „๋žต์  ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ
- ํŠน์ˆ˜๋ž€๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊ณต์‹ํ’ˆ ์‚ฌ์—… ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ง€์†
- ์ˆ˜์ง๊ณ„์—ดํ™” ํ†ตํ•œ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์œ ์ง€
- ์ „๋žต์  M&A๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ง€๋ฆฌ์  ํ™•์žฅ ์ถ”์ง„

โ€ข ์žฌ๋ฌด๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ
- ํ˜„๊ธˆ 2์–ต5,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ณด์œ 
- ํˆฌ์ž์ž์‚ฐ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ
- ์‹ค์งˆ์  ๋ฌด์ฐจ์ž… ๊ฒฝ์˜ ์œ ์ง€

โ€ข ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ์š”์ธ
- ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์—”์ž(HPAI) ์ง€์†์  ์œ„ํ—˜ ์กด์žฌ
- ์ด์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•ด 8,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค์‹œํ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ํˆฌ์ž ์ง„ํ–‰


โ“ Q&A

Original Translation
Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Heather Jones with Heather Jones Research.**Operator:** [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด] ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Heather Jones Research์˜ Heather Jones๋‹˜์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Heather Jones: Heather Jones Research LLC I want to start with saying I appreciate you all starting these calls, they're very helpful. I guess my first question is just on pricing. Just wondering if you -- this quarter, your price capture relative to industry benchmarks was materially lower than it has been in the past. And so I was just wondering if you could share some quantitative or qualitative color as to the shift that's gone on in your mix as far as cost plus versus market-based, just so that we can try to be more accurate in our projections going forward.**Heather Jones:** ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ฝœ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์šฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์—…๊ณ„ ๋ฒค์น˜๋งˆํฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ท€ํ•˜์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํฌ์ฐฉ๋ฅ ์ด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๋‚ฎ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค(cost plus) ๋ฐฉ์‹ ๋Œ€ ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ๋ฏน์Šค ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋Ÿ‰์ ์ด๋“  ์ •์„ฑ์ ์ด๋“  ์–ด๋–ค ์„ค๋ช…์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ „๋ง์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋ง์ด์ฃ .
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director Heather, this is Sherman, and thank you for that question. I'll start, then I'll call on Max to finish up here. But I want to start this conversation just talking about how important our customers are and us keeping their trust and their support and us always thinking about the long term. And each and every customer has their own go-to-market strategy, and there's certainly a multitude of different pricing structures out there. But I think what you're indicating, Heather, is some topside slippage and what we would encourage you to think about is just balance that with the downside, the mid-cycle uplift that comes with that. And over time, market realization actually improving for the long term, the reduction of volatility and certainly the longer-term arrangements that come with that. So we think there's a lot of appeal in this shift. And certainly, it's not complete because if you look in our Q, we do indicate that the majority of our conventional eggs are still priced off of the market framework. So there's still a lot of our history in our pricing agreements, but certainly, certain customers have different thought patterns on their go-to-market strategy. And once again, upside opportunity is balanced with the downside protection here. And always, we strive for true partnerships to be the type of partner that they can rely upon not only for supply but for meeting their other needs. So Max, I'll pass it to you if you have any other comments to add there.**Sherman Miller:** ํ—ค๋”, ์ €๋Š” ์…”๋จผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋จผ์ € ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งฅ์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์ € ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์šฐ์„  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์™€ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ ์ „๋žต(go-to-market strategy)์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋“ค์ด ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ—ค๋”๊ฐ€ ์ง€์ ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ • ์‹œ ์ผ๋ถ€ ํ•˜๋ฝ ์—ฌ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ์œผ๋ฉด ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ•˜ํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ • ์‹œ์˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ, ์ฆ‰ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์‚ฌ์ดํด์—์„œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ์ƒ์Šน ํšจ๊ณผ์™€ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์‹œ์žฅ ์‹คํ˜„์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๊ณ , ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์ด ์ค„์–ด๋“ค๋ฉฐ, ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ณ„์•ฝ๋“ค์ด ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ๋งŽ์€ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ „ํ™˜๋œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์‹œ์žฅ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ฑ…์ •๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ช…์‹œ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์—๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ํŠน์ • ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ ์ „๋žต์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ƒ์Šน ๊ธฐํšŒ๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์™€ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์š”๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ๋„ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งฅ์Šค, ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹ค ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Max Bowman: VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director Sherman, I think you covered it. It's just all about customer alignment and positioning ourselves as best we can for the long term through the cycle.**Max Bowman:** ์…”๋จผ์ด ์ž˜ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ์ผ์น˜์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์ดํด ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ตœ์„ ์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Heather Jones: Heather Jones Research LLC And then my follow-up is on Echo Lake. Those results were stronger than expected across the board, just the sales and the margins. And so just, one, should we be expecting significant sequential revenue growth for that business? And secondly, was there anything related to cost, timing, et cetera, that affected margins? Or is this a good gross margin to use going forward?**Heather Jones:** Echo Lake ๊ด€๋ จ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ฒซ์งธ, ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฌ์—…์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ˆœ์ฐจ์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ด๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? ๋‘˜์งธ, ๋งˆ์ง„์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค€ ๋น„์šฉ์ด๋‚˜ ํƒ€์ด๋ฐ ๊ด€๋ จ ์š”์ธ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ด ์ด๋งˆ์ง„์œจ์„ ํ–ฅํ›„์—๋„ ์ ์šฉํ•ด๋„ ์ข‹์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director Heather, another great question. And it's hard to express the amount of excitement that we have when you say not only Echo Lake but prepared foods and just the growth opportunity that we have, the focus on higher value, higher quality more consistent and then margin expansion over time. It opens lots of doors for us for additional organic growth and M&A, and we do feel good. The color that we added in our Q is that we feel very strongly that they're meeting and exceeding all of the initial goals that we set for them. And Echo Lake is strong. We spent a lot of time in due diligence, not only looking at the business, but looking at the team and the team is what I really like to brag about, just extremely solid team that has a mind for growth, a mind for perfection and achieving goals. So very excited there. Max, I'll see if you have any comments to add.**Sherman Miller:** ํ—ค๋”, ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Echo Lake๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ(prepared foods) ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹ค ๋•Œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ํฅ๋ถ„์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ค์šธ ์ •๋„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ, ๋” ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜์™€ ๋” ๋†’์€ ํ’ˆ์งˆ, ๋” ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ํ’ˆ์งˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง‘์ค‘, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ์ด๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ M&A๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ด์–ด์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์—์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ Echo Lake๊ฐ€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ์„ค์ •ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ™•์‹ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Echo Lake๋Š” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์‚ฌ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์‚ฌ์—…๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํŒ€์„ ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ์‚ดํŽด๋ดค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํŒ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ์ž๋ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด, ๋งค์šฐ ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•œ ํŒ€์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ธ๋“œ์™€ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•จ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋Š” ํŒ€์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Max, ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ•˜์‹ค ๋ง์”€์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Max Bowman: VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director Yes, Heather. I think it's in line or exceeding, as Sherman said, some of the benchmarks that we threw out in the initial investor presentation for Echo Lake. And as Sherman said, no bias or more. We're feeling great about Echo Lake and feeling good about where it's positioned for the future. We are -- we did call out the synergies early on, and we had said $15 million. I think we're on track to achieve those and potentially more. And we're already working on reinvestment at Echo Lake with an announced additional investment there.**Max Bowman:** ๋„ค, Heather. Sherman์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด Echo Lake์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜์—์„œ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ฒค์น˜๋งˆํฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Sherman์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋Œ€๋กœ, ํŽธ๊ฒฌ ์—†์ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด Echo Lake์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํ–ฅํ›„ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ดˆ๊ธฐ์— ์‹œ๋„ˆ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, 1,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ถค๋„์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž ์žฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ด์ƒ๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฏธ Echo Lake์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์žฌํˆฌ์ž ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํˆฌ์ž๋„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ์ƒํƒœ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director Yes, and that's significant, Max. It's almost a 10% growth in their annual volume. So you can see how much we're believing in it, Heather.**Sherman Miller:** ๋„ค, ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋งฅ์Šค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 10% ์„ฑ์žฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ํ—ค๋”.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Pooran Sharma with Stephens.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Stephens์˜ Pooran Sharma๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Pooran Sharma: Stephens Inc., Research Division Just wanted to say congrats on the quarter and on getting your first earnings call here. Maybe for the first question, wanted to understand a little bit about the supply situation. It looks like we've had a pretty good sequential build back in the layer flock over the last couple of months. I know in our past conversations, we've talked about how long it will take to get back to about 325 million hens. And I think the industry projections called for about 305 million to 315 million by year-end. But we have been hearing some expansion amongst smaller contract farmers may not be fully captured in the latest USDA figures of about 300 million hens. So just wanted to get your thoughts on how to think about supplies over the next few quarters from here.**Pooran Sharma:** ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ถ•ํ•˜๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ ์‚ฐ๋ž€๊ณ„ ์‚ฌ์œก ๊ทœ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฝค ์ข‹์€ ํšŒ๋ณต์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ „ ๋Œ€ํ™”์—์„œ ์•ฝ 3์–ต 2,500๋งŒ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ฑธ๋ฆด์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „๋ง์—์„œ๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์•ฝ 3์–ต 500๋งŒ์—์„œ 3์–ต 1,500๋งŒ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๋†๊ฐ€๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์ผ๋ถ€ ํ™•์žฅ์ด ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ตœ๊ทผ USDA ์ˆ˜์น˜์ธ ์•ฝ 3์–ต ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์— ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director Pooran, thank you for that question. And the USDA hen numbers that came out September 1 indicated 101.4 million -- 301.4 million. And that certainly is a number well lower than the 5-year, but I think we would challenge you to think a little bit broader than that. There's a general rule of thumb that it takes one chicken for each person in the U.S. And the U.S. population hovering somewhere around 340 million indicates that we're well short of the potential that the market could use. And there's certainly lots of things on the demand side. But unfortunately, there's some early indicators that the high-path avian influenza certainly has not gone, and this is a lot bigger than the U.S. problem. It's a global problem and the global indicators indicate the same thing that there's lots of challenges sitting at the doorstep with high-path avian influenza. And unfortunately, about 3.1 million hens has been taken away from that 301.4 million already and numerous turkey flocks also depopulated. And the migration is certainly turning the volume up as we speak. And so there's lots of things that are concerning about the migration and about how this fall could play out. We have no exact indicators what that would be, but certainly, just looking and listening to the experts, there's lots of concerns around future high-path avian influenza. And you pair the supply with demand. And certainly, there's always seasonality that comes into play. The last few years has been a roller coaster. Normal seasonality has been disrupted by loss of birds during those times, which has kind of muddied the waters, but supply stabilization is just one of the important pieces to think about whenever marketing programs work most effectively, it's when they can count on supply. And the tailwinds that are sitting there for the demand side are extremely favorable, and we're excited about them. FDA now lets us put the word healthy on an egg carton. American Heart Association recommended eggs as a part of a heart healthy diet. American Academy of Pediatrics, they're recommending eggs from conception to 2 years of age because of choline. These GLP-1 drugs are certainly a catalyst. People looking for clean, unprocessed foods and eggs just become a spotlight as 97% of households buy eggs. And of course, the United Nations is pushing eggs still, but at the end of the day, eggs fit very well into the healthy trends, the convenient trends, and they're still affordable on a per gram of protein serving. And they also -- some of the other spotlights against foods containing sodium, sugar and saturated fat were either low or 0. So we think there's tremendous tailwinds to pair with this supply. And unfortunately, over the last 3 years, it's been one step forward, two steps back. And we're all hoping for a much better fall than what the early indicators show. Max?**Sherman Miller:** ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 9์›” 1์ผ์— ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ USDA ์‚ฐ๋ž€๊ณ„ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” 3์–ต 140๋งŒ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํžˆ 5๋…„ ํ‰๊ท ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์ข€ ๋” ํญ๋„“์€ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ธ๊ตฌ 1๋ช…๋‹น ๋‹ญ 1๋งˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋ฒ•์น™์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ธ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ 3์–ต 4์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋ช… ์ˆ˜์ค€์ธ ์ ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉด, ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์š” ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช… ๋งŽ์€ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•ˆํƒ€๊น๊ฒŒ๋„ ๊ณ ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์—”์ž(HPAI)๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ง•ํ›„๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ํ›จ์”ฌ ํฐ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋“ค๋„ ๊ณ ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์—”์ž(high-path avian influenza)๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ๋„์ „๊ณผ์ œ๋“ค์ด ๋ˆˆ์•ž์— ๋†“์—ฌ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆํƒ€๊น๊ฒŒ๋„ 3์–ต 140๋งŒ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ ์ค‘์—์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ ์•ฝ 310๋งŒ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ฐ๋ž€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์ œ๊ฑฐ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์น ๋ฉด์กฐ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋“ค๋„ ์‚ด์ฒ˜๋ถ„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ ์ฒ ์ƒˆ ์ด๋™์ด ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋”์šฑ ์•…ํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ฒ ์ƒˆ ์ด๋™๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ€์„์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๊ฐœ๋ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์šฐ๋ ค์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๋ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋Š” ์—†์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด ํ–ฅํ›„ ๊ณ ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์—”์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ธ‰๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ณ„์ ˆ์„ฑ์ด ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„์€ ์ •๋ง ๋กค๋Ÿฌ์ฝ”์Šคํ„ฐ ๊ฐ™์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ๊ณ„์ ˆ์„ฑ์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ์†์‹ค๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ต๋ž€๋˜์–ด ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋ณต์žกํ•ด์กŒ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์•ˆ์ •ํ™”๋Š” ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์š” ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์ˆœํ’์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

FDA๊ฐ€ ์ด์ œ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ ํฌ์žฅ์— '๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ(healthy)'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๋ฅผ ํ‘œ๊ธฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ—ˆ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์‹ฌ์žฅํ˜‘ํšŒ(American Heart Association)์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์„ ์‹ฌ์žฅ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์‹๋‹จ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋กœ ๊ถŒ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์†Œ์•„๊ณผํ•™ํšŒ(American Academy of Pediatrics)์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฝœ๋ฆฐ(choline) ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ž„์‹ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2์„ธ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ ์„ญ์ทจ๋ฅผ ๊ถŒ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ GLP-1 ์•ฝ๋ฌผ๋“ค๋„ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ด‰๋งค ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊ณต๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์‹ํ’ˆ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์ „์ฒด ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ์˜ 97%๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์„ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์ด ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์œ ์—”์—์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ณ„๋ž€์„ ๊ถŒ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ณ„๋ž€์€ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์™€ ํŽธ์˜์„ฑ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์— ๋งค์šฐ ์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ 1๊ทธ๋žจ๋‹น ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋ดค์„ ๋•Œ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋‚˜ํŠธ๋ฅจ, ์„คํƒ•, ํฌํ™”์ง€๋ฐฉ์ด ํ•จ์œ ๋œ ์‹ํ’ˆ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์šฐ๋ ค ์š”์†Œ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ณ„๋ž€์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์„ฑ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋‚ฎ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์•„์˜ˆ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์ˆœํ’์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•ˆํƒ€๊น๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ง€๋‚œ 3๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ์€ ํ•œ ๋ฐœ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉด ๋‘ ๋ฐœ ๋’ค๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๋Š” ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋“ค์ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋‚˜์€ ๊ฐ€์„์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งฅ์Šค?
Max Bowman: VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director I think you covered it, Sherman.**Max Bowman:** ๋ชจ๋“  ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋‹ค ๋‹ค๋ฃจ์‹  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Sherman.
Pooran Sharma: Stephens Inc., Research Division Great. I appreciate the color there. Just wanted to maybe hone in on HPAI. We had the 3.1 million case in Wisconsin. And I think in the northern states, you've been hearing about some turkey flocks that had been impacted by the virus. It seems a little bit earlier than expected, early in the migration period, as you called it. Do you think the industry is better prepared this year than last? I know you talked about your own biosecurity measures, your own investments into your biosecurity. But just from an industry kind of perspective, do you think they're better prepared this time around than last time? And do you think we could see the potential for a similar magnitude just given where the industry is at?**Pooran Sharma:** ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์„ค๋ช… ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. HPAI(๊ณ ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์—”์ž)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ„์Šค์ฝ˜์‹ ์—์„œ 310๋งŒ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ถ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์น ๋ฉด์กฐ ๋†์žฅ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ์‹์„ ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ฒ ์ƒˆ ์ด๋™ ์‹œ๊ธฐ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์น˜๊ณ ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ด๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์ž‘๋…„๋ณด๋‹ค ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋” ์ž˜ ์ค€๋น„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”? ์ž์‚ฌ์˜ ์ƒ๋ฌผ๋ณด์•ˆ ์กฐ์น˜์™€ ์ƒ๋ฌผ๋ณด์•ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ๋ฒˆ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์ž˜ ์ค€๋น„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ ์—…๊ณ„ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director I can't predict the magnitude, but what I do feel confident in is a lot of work is went into biosecurity and preventing the lateral spread. The big question mark still comes from these point source introductions, and that ties back to not only migrating birds, but also the pair of domestic species that are around farms, and just a huge need for concrete epidemiology to know how this virus is not only getting on to farms but getting into chicken houses. And there's work certainly being done on that, but the silver bullet of here's the problem, here's how to solve it is still out there. We've got to find it. And certainly, biosecurity is top of mind. We have invested over $80 million. It's something that we've been very serious about since 2015 and beyond that even. So unfortunately, I can't give you a prediction of how it's going to play out, but the early indicators are that the birds are certainly carrying it as they migrate, and it's certainly a virulent strain that's still well capable of infecting chickens and turkeys.**Sherman Miller:** ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†์ง€๋งŒ, ํ™•์‹ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒ๋ฌผ๋ณด์•ˆ(biosecurity)๊ณผ ์ธก๋ฉด ํ™•์‚ฐ ๋ฐฉ์ง€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์˜€๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํฐ ์˜๋ฌธ์ ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์  ๊ฐ์—ผ์› ์œ ์ž…(point source introductions)์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ฒ ์ƒˆ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋†์žฅ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ๊ฐ€์ถ• ์ข…๋“ค๊ณผ๋„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋†์žฅ์— ์นจ์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์—ญํ•™์กฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ ˆ์‹คํžˆ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, '๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ  ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค'๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์ •์ ์ธ ํ•ด๋‹ต์€ ์•„์ง ์ฐพ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์ฐพ์•„์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋ฌผ๋ณด์•ˆ์€ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ๊ณผ์ œ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 8์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์„ ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2015๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ง„์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•ด์˜จ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ด๊ณ , ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ทธ ์ด์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋„ ๊ทธ๋ž˜์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆํƒ€๊น๊ฒŒ๋„ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๊ฐœ๋ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ธก์€ ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์—†์ง€๋งŒ, ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ฒ ์ƒˆ๋“ค์ด ์ด๋™ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค๋ฅผ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ญ๊ณผ ์น ๋ฉด์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์—ผ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ณ€์ข…์ž„์€ ํ™•์‹คํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Max Bowman: VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director I think, Poorn, we can't -- as Sherman said, we can't speak for the industry and wouldn't pretend to. But I think it's evident that everyone in the industry has taken it very seriously. We just continue to focus on what we can control, and we know and trust in our scale and diversity of our operations that give us advantages. But we know at the same time, we've got to execute and remain diligent every day. You're only as good as your worst day when it comes down to it. So consistency is very important in our operations. And I think all of our locations are they talk about it literally daily and are focused on it, and that's what we're going to depend on going forward.**Max Bowman:** ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์…”๋จผ์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋Œ€๋ณ€ํ•ด์„œ ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ์ƒ๊ฐ๋„ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋งค์šฐ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ ์šด์˜์˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์™€ ๋‹ค์–‘์„ฑ์ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ์žฅ์ ๋“ค์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋™์‹œ์— ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งค์ผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋Šฆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋‚˜์œ ๋‚ ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋งŒํผ๋งŒ ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์šด์˜์˜ ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ์—…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋งค์ผ ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜์กดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question is from Leah Jordan with Goldman Sachs.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค์˜ ๋ฆฌ์•„ ์กฐ๋˜๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Leah Jordan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Sherman and Max, thanks for hosting this call. Really appreciate all the detail. I wanted to ask about specialty eggs. You called out double-digit growth in cage-free and pasture-raised. Just any more detail on the trends you're seeing in specialty? And how are you thinking about capacity growth for that segment going forward? And ultimately, where would you like to land in terms of mix between conventional and specialty longer term?**Leah Jordan:** ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋””๋น„์ „์˜ ์…”๋จผ๊ณผ ๋งฅ์Šค, ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฝœ์„ ์ฃผ์ตœํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ  ์ž์„ธํ•œ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ŠคํŽ˜์…œํ‹ฐ ๊ณ„๋ž€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ€์ด์ง€ํ”„๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ชฉ์ดˆ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์œก ๊ณ„๋ž€์—์„œ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ŠคํŽ˜์…œํ‹ฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ํ™•์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€์š”? ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€๊ณผ ์ŠคํŽ˜์…œํ‹ฐ ๊ณ„๋ž€ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ฏน์Šค๋ฅผ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director Leah, great question. As you pointed out, pasture-raised double-digit growth year-over-year in dollars and volumes. And Leah, one thing that we continue to focus on is the word choice. We want to produce what the customer, the consumer wants to purchase. We focus on a very broad range so that we make sure that we service all customers. We also love to talk about the strength of Egg-Landโ€™s Best, the #1 branded specialty eggs that we produce over 50% of the dozens for Egg-Landโ€™s Best, huge, huge tailwinds for us. The way we think about it is that we want to move at our customers' long-term pace. We don't make short-term decisions. We've been in this business a long time, and we think very forward on how different categories play out, and that circles us right back to choice. So we invest broadly, and we make sure that we're positioned for the long term. But we certainly see growth that's happening both in branded and private label, in pasture-raised and certainly cage-free as well. And we really focus hard on our long-term enterprise value to increase that over time. So we will continue to invest in cage-free, we will continue to invest in pasture-raised as well as the other items, and the customer will be our guide on the pace and scale that we do that at.**Sherman Miller:** ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ชฉ์ดˆ ์‚ฌ์œก(pasture-raised) ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ณผ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ '์„ ํƒ'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋งค์šฐ ํญ๋„“์€ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ(Egg-Land's Best)์˜ ๊ฐ•์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1์œ„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๊ณ„๋ž€์œผ๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์—๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ 50% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์ˆœํ’์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์†๋„์— ๋งž์ถฐ ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ํ•ด์™”๊ณ , ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๊ฐœ๋ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์ง€ํ–ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์„ ํƒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ๊ท€๊ฒฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํญ๋„“๊ฒŒ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ(private label) ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ชฉ์ดˆ ์‚ฌ์œก(pasture-raised)๊ณผ ์ผ€์ด์ง€ ํ”„๋ฆฌ(cage-free) ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ๋„ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ฐ€์น˜์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋Œ€์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ •๋ง ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ผ€์ด์ง€ ํ”„๋ฆฌ์— ๊ณ„์† ํˆฌ์žํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ๋ชฉ์ดˆ ์‚ฌ์œก๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ๋“ค์—๋„ ๊ณ„์† ํˆฌ์žํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์†๋„์™€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Max Bowman: VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director Yes. I mean Leah, long term, we focus on capacity growth in specialty, particularly. that's typically around double digits, 10% or so, and we continue to keep focusing there. And over time, it's hard to predict exactly that mix. I mean, obviously, acquisitions could play into that. We've purchased some nice acquisitions in the last 3 years that had some significant conventional production. So those numbers go up. But over time, we believe and think that the specialty will continue to grow as a percentage of the overall mix.**Max Bowman:** ๋„ค, ๋ฆฌ์•„, ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํŠนํžˆ ์ŠคํŽ˜์…œํ‹ฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ํ™•๋Œ€์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜, ์•ฝ 10% ์ •๋„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๊ณ„์† ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ๋ฏน์Šค๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์ด ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ์ง€๋‚œ 3๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ์ข‹์€ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์„ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํ•ด๋‹น ์ˆ˜์น˜๋“ค์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ŠคํŽ˜์…œํ‹ฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ์ „์ฒด ๋ฏน์Šค์—์„œ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์ค‘์ด ๊ณ„์† ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Leah Jordan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division That's very helpful. And then maybe just sticking with the theme of shifting the mix of your business. I wanted to go back to the Echo Lake discussion. What have been the initial learnings or key surprises over the past few months? And then just on the longer-term growth, any more color there? I guess, how many more opportunities like the recently announced line extension for pancakes are there?**Leah Jordan:** ๋งค์šฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ฏน์Šค ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ผ๋Š” ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ, Echo Lake ๋…ผ์˜๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํ•™์Šต ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด๋‚˜ ์ฃผ์š” ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์ ๋“ค์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด์—ˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ํŒฌ์ผ€์ดํฌ ๋ผ์ธ ํ™•์žฅ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋” ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director We do believe there are more, which would definitely fall under the organic growth. But the other exciting part of this, we've added a lot of scale to our company through M&A. And this opens the door to a new channel of M&A, and we think there will be some opportunities there. And no surprises with Echo, we knew that there was a tremendous team coming with Echo, and they've absolutely delivered in every area. A lot of key initiatives out of the gate, working on leadership and labor, reliable manufacturing, operational excellence, sales planning, gross margin management, net margin management, market expertise, just everything about the business that we should be touching the team is driving forward on and extremely exciting. And we're excited about showing the growth that we did this quarter, but we certainly believe that there's opportunities as we mentioned earlier about the approval of $14.8 million for a new pancake line. That's almost a 10% increase in our volume right out of the gate. So good things to come there. Max?**Sherman Miller:** ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ M&A๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํ™•์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด M&A ์ฑ„๋„์˜ ๋ฌธ์ด ์—ด๋ ธ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ๋„ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Echo์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ „ํ˜€ ๋†€๋ž์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” Echo์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ํŒ€์ด ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งŽ์€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ๊ณผ ์ธ๋ ฅ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ œ์กฐ, ์šด์˜ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์„ฑ, ์˜์—… ๊ณ„ํš, ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ  ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ์ˆœ์ด์ต๋ฅ  ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ์‹œ์žฅ ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ ๋“ฑ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ค„์•ผ ํ•  ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—์„œ ํŒ€์ด ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ์˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํŒฌ์ผ€์ดํฌ ๋ผ์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ 1,480๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์Šน์ธ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์˜ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 10% ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ข‹์€ ์ผ๋“ค์ด ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งฅ์Šค?
Max Bowman: VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director Sherman, again, I think you covered it well. I will remind everyone, Leah, we're less than a full quarter into this, I mean June 2 was the closing date. I know we've got some exciting meetings planned to really drill down with the Echo Lake team on longer-term plans. And what I think we've been very excited about, as Sherman said before, is just learning more about the capability of that team, the very disciplined approach and logical approach that they're taking, strategic approaches to both maintaining the business they have and structuring the business for -- and positioning for more growth in the future. So more to come. But as we said from the outset, Echo Lake has been everything that we projected and maybe a little more. You can go back to those initial investor decks and kind of see what was there, and you can get a good idea of the margins and from what we showed this first quarter. So we're really excited about the future for Echo and our old prepared foods. Not to leave out, MeadowCreek is sort of beginning to achieve, I think, a good base to go from. They're getting their volumes up, and Crepini has got some exciting developments as well. So we'll be continuing like try to grow and invest in our sales in that important area of our business.**Max Bowman:** ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, Sherman์ด ์ž˜ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Leah, ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œ์ผœ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„์ง ํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋„ ์ฑ„ ์ง€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 6์›” 2์ผ์ด ์ธ์ˆ˜ ์™„๋ฃŒ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. Echo Lake ํŒ€๊ณผ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ณ„ํš์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์‹ฌ๋„ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•  ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๋ฏธํŒ…๋“ค์„ ๊ณ„ํšํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Sherman์ด ์•ž์„œ ๋งํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ ํŒ€์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ตฌ์กฐํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹ํ•˜๋Š” ์ „๋žต์  ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์†Œ์‹์ด ์žˆ์„ ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด, Echo Lake๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋“ค์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋‹น์‹œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฒˆ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ข‹์€ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ์–ป์œผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ Echo์™€ ์ €ํฌ ๊ธฐ์กด ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋นผ๋†“์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ MeadowCreek๋„ ์ข‹์€ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋Š˜๋ ค๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , Crepini๋„ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐœ์ „๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งค์ถœ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Ben Mayhew with BMO Capital Markets.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ BMO ์บํ”ผํ„ธ ๋งˆ์ผ“์˜ ๋ฒค ๋ฉ”์ดํœด๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Benjamin Mayhew: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research I guess just on your comments on share repurchases, you only did the $50 million so far this year. You still have quite a bit left on the authorization. And you mentioned a couple of options in your prepared remarks. So I just wanted to dig into that a little bit more. Do you think share repurchases are going to become a bigger piece of your allocation strategy? And is your goal to defend shares against commodity swings as you grow your value-added business? Or how are you thinking about utilizing that?**Benjamin Mayhew:** ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ง์”€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋งŒ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์Šน์ธ๋œ ํ•œ๋„์—๋Š” ์•„์ง ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—์„œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์˜ต์…˜์„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์ด ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์ „๋žต์—์„œ ๋” ํฐ ๋น„์ค‘์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉด์„œ ์›์ž์žฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๋™์— ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•ด ์ฃผ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์–ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ธ์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์‹ค ๊ณ„ํš์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director I'll start and pass it to Max pretty quick. But Ben, we're excited to have share repurchases in our capital allocation strategy. It's certainly a solid tool, and we know that, I think the investor community is as well. And we've not given any formal guidance on what the buyback criteria will be, but I will assure you that we have our eyes wide open and we've described it as opportunistic. And certainly, we're waking up every morning keeping our eyes wide open and being ready. Max, any other color you want to add?**Sherman Miller:** ์ €๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์„œ ๋งฅ์Šค์—๊ฒŒ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒค, ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์ „๋žต์— ํฌํ•จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๋„๊ตฌ์ด๊ณ , ํˆฌ์ž์ž ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž… ๊ธฐ์ค€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต์‹์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋Š” ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ˆˆ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋œจ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐํšŒ์ฃผ์˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋งค์ผ ์•„์นจ ๋ˆˆ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋œจ๊ณ  ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์„œ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งฅ์Šค, ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ง์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
Max Bowman: VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director Yes. Ben, you're well aware of the authorization that we have out there. And as you said, we spent $50 million against that authorization. The keyword we're talking is opportunistic primarily through -- we're thinking at this point, open market type purchases. When we feel the time is right, as Sherman says, we're watching things very closely. A lot happening in our industry and people are trying to figure out kind of where we're going. We've already talked about a lot of the factors this morning that will affect the future from a supply side, what happens with HPAI. And so we've got a lot to factor in there. But believe me, it's at the height of our thought process. I can't leave this point without talking about -- I mean, that is an important part of our capital allocation, just having that share repurchase there. It's a tool that we historically have not had. We'll continue to use it. But we're always going to lean into some of the other triggers that we like to talk about, which are acquisitions and organic growth and those things that are very important in our capital allocation strategy.**Max Bowman:** ๋„ค, Ben, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์Šน์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ค ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•ด๋‹น ์Šน์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ง‘ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋‹จ์–ด๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ์ฃผ์˜์  ์ ‘๊ทผ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ฃผ๋กœ ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐœ์‹œ์žฅ ๋งค์ž… ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จ๋  ๋•Œ, Sherman์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ๊ด€์ฐฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ์ผ๋“ค์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋””๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ์— ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๋งŽ์€ ์š”์ธ๋“ค, ํŠนํžˆ ๊ณ ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์—”์ž(HPAI)์— ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ๊ณผ์ •์˜ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ์ˆœ์œ„์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์ „๋žต์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ณ„์† ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์— ๋” ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘๊ณผ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์ „๋žต์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Benjamin Mayhew: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research Great. And then I'll just ask one more. When you think about the relative price of competing proteins, right? So record beef prices, chicken prices that are high relative to historical averages, pork prices that are high. How do you feel about where eggs kind of sit in that relative competitive basis or landscape? And headed into this holiday season, could we see more consumer trade down into eggs? How are you looking at the demand environment over the next 1 to 2 years? Do you think eggs will outperform from a consumer value perspective? And that will be my last question.**Benjamin Mayhew:** ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ๋” ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์˜ ์ƒ๋Œ€์  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ์‡ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋‹ญ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋„ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ํ‰๊ท  ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋„ ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ƒ๋Œ€์  ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ๊ตฌ๋„๋‚˜ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์ด ์–ด๋А ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง์—ฐ์‹œ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์— ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์ „ํ™˜ํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ํ–ฅํ›„ 1-2๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ์ˆ˜์š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋ฉฐ, ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๊ฐ€์น˜ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋” ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director Yes. So Ben, great question. And certainly, eggs are competing exceptionally well being the lowest on a per serving a protein basis, except for milk. And we feel really good about it because a lot of focus is being put on ultra processed and of course, eggs are not, you get to crack an egg. And certainly, the products that are created in prepared foods, they're clean, healthy. These things are awesome, the expansion of different formats as well as dayparts. Eggs are good each and every part of the day, and that's one of my favorite things to do at night is to cook an egg. And so I think that carries over well into what you described. There's lots of things going on with other proteins, but the focus is being put on health and ultraclean as well as the sodium, sugar and saturated fat. It just keeps elevating eggs as a better choice for consumers.**Sherman Miller:** ๋„ค, ๋ฒค, ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๊ณ„๋ž€์€ ์šฐ์œ ๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ ๋Š” 1ํšŒ ์ œ๊ณต๋Ÿ‰๋‹น ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ €๋ ดํ•ด์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ดˆ๊ฐ€๊ณต์‹ํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ณ„๋ž€์€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๊ณ„๋ž€์€ ์ง์ ‘ ๊นจ์„œ ๋จน์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค๋„ ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ์ •๋ง ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ์˜ ํ™•์žฅ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ค‘ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€๋กœ๋„ ํ™•์žฅ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„๋ž€์€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ค‘ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋“  ์ข‹๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐค์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„๋ž€ ์š”๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ ๋“ค์ด ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜์‹  ๋‚ด์šฉ๊ณผ ์ž˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ผ๋“ค์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ณผ ์ดˆ์ฒญ์ •, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜ํŠธ๋ฅจ, ์„คํƒ•, ํฌํ™”์ง€๋ฐฉ์— ์ดˆ์ ์ด ๋งž์ถฐ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์„ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์„ ํƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€๊ฐ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Max Bowman: VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director Yes. Great comment, Sherman. It's just all part of those tailwinds that we like to talk about. And this is, in my judgment, one of the most important ones. I mean we've got a lot of people to feed in this country and then around the world. Choice is a big part of that, as Sherman has said already many times today, but we're really excited about expansion into some of these additional formats in daypart, prepared foods just gives us another platform to move into -- to really give more convenience and more access and making it easier for consumers in general to consume eggs. And we're excited about that future.**Max Bowman:** ๋„ค, ์ข‹์€ ์ง€์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Sherman. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆœํ’ ์š”์ธ๋“ค ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ํŒ๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์š”์ธ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋จน์—ฌ ์‚ด๋ ค์•ผ ํ•  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ ํƒ๊ถŒ์ด ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ํฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, Sherman์ด ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ด๋ฏธ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ํ˜•ํƒœ์™€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€๋ณ„ ์ œํ’ˆ, ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ์˜ ํ™•์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํŽธ์˜์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„๋ž€ ์†Œ๋น„๋ฅผ ๋” ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Heather Jones from Heather Jones Research.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Heather Jones Research์˜ Heather Jones๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Heather Jones: Heather Jones Research LLC I just wanted to -- I have two follow-ups actually. Just wanted to ask about the current market. It's honestly surprised me how much pricing has dropped given the numbers you mentioned, Sherman, as far as the layers on the ground. I mean, clearly, there's been a rebuild from the spring lows. But -- so I guess I was just wondering if you think that's either, a, demand destruction? Or do you think maybe the USDA has undercounted the numbers that are on the ground? And then I've got a follow-up to that.**Heather Jones:** ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฌป๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ์š”. ์…”๋จผ์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์œก๋‘์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์ด ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์†”์งํžˆ ๋†€๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋ด„์ฒ  ์ €์ ์—์„œ ํšŒ๋ณต์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ˆ˜์š” ๊ฐ์†Œ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด USDA๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ ์‚ฌ์œก๋‘์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๊ณผ์†Œ๊ณ„์ƒํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director Heather, I would tie it more back to seasonality. I think there's certainly so many disruptions that's happened over the last couple of years. It's kind of easy to forget about normal eating patterns and seasonality. But I think another huge piece of it is just tied back to the supply stabilization factor that to plan business, to plan features, to showcase eggs that are so important with being a $65 difference in a basket in the grocery store if eggs are in the baskets or not in the baskets. I don't see the demand destruction, but certainly, supply stabilization is key because if you're going to market eggs and move eggs, you've got to have #1 eggs on the shelf. And there's been some very strained times over the last few years where there's just simply not been enough eggs. And the price points they're sitting at today should be very attractive for the end consumer, especially paired with all these tailwinds that we've talked about. So see good things happening back in 2015, there was certainly some demand destruction on the liquid side where some reformulations happened, and that was very difficult to get eggs put back in some formulas, but the liquid side has remained extremely strong. So that should have prevented any demand destruction on that side.**Sherman Miller:** ์ด๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ณ„์ ˆ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋” ์—ฐ๊ด€์ง€์–ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์€ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ์‹์Šต๊ด€ ํŒจํ„ด๊ณผ ๊ณ„์ ˆ์„ฑ์„ ์žŠ๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์› ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์•ˆ์ •ํ™”์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ณ„ํšํ•˜๊ณ , ํŠน๋ณ„ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ๊ธฐํšํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์„ ํ™๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ, ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ์ ์—์„œ ์žฅ๋ฐ”๊ตฌ๋‹ˆ์— ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์ด ์žˆ๋А๋ƒ ์—†๋А๋ƒ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ 65๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ˆ˜์š” ํŒŒ๊ดด๋Š” ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์•ˆ์ •ํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์„ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…ํ•˜๊ณ  ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ๋งค์žฅ ์ง„์—ด๋Œ€์— 1๊ธ‰ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์ด ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋งค์šฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋Œ€๋Š” ์ตœ์ข… ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์šฐ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆœํ’ ์š”์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ง์ด์ฃ .

2015๋…„์—๋Š” ์•ก์ƒ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ˆ˜์š” ํŒŒ๊ดด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ  ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ œํ’ˆ ์žฌ์กฐํ•ฉ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚ฌ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ณต์‹์— ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋„ฃ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์–ด๋ ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•ก์ƒ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์š” ํŒŒ๊ดด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Max Bowman: VP, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary & Director The point there, Sherman, I think, obviously, the imports of eggs played into that liquid side staying strong because all those eggs that were brought into the country were further processed and put into that channel. So while that's not our -- hasn't been historically our main focus, it certainly helped with the overall balance in supply of eggs. So we don't see a lot of demand destruction at this point. In fact, I think we would say just the opposite, we think there's the tailwinds that we keep talking about. And as we move out of October or into late October, early November and we move towards the normal seasonal periods that really show demand. And remember, we're in our first quarter, which we typically think of it -- and our fourth quarter is our weakest quarters. So we think we've got a good year ahead given the current supply levels.**Max Bowman:** ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—์„œ ์…”๋จผ, ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๊ณ„๋ž€ ์ˆ˜์ž…์ด ์•ก์ƒ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตญ๋‚ด๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์˜จ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณ„๋ž€๋“ค์ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๊ณต๋˜์–ด ํ•ด๋‹น ์ฑ„๋„๋กœ ํˆฌ์ž…๋˜์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์ดˆ์ ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ๊ณ„๋ž€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๊ท ํ˜•์—๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์š” ํŒŒ๊ดด๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ •๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์† ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•ด์˜จ ์ˆœํ’์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 10์›”์„ ์ง€๋‚˜ 10์›” ๋ง, 11์›” ์ดˆ๋กœ ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ๊ณ„์ ˆ์  ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์…”์•ผ ํ•  ์ ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์ธ๋ฐ, ๋ณดํ†ต 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•ฝํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ํ•œ ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Heather Jones: Heather Jones Research LLC Okay. And then my follow-up is going back to your comments, Sherman, about leveraging your vertical integration to remain the low-cost producer. And I suspect you're not going to quantify this specifically, but just more of a qualitative idea. Thinking about the Echo Lake, your other prepared foods, your further processed eggs, is it part of your strategy to divert more and more of Cal-Maine's production, owned production into those products and leave less to have to sell in the open market? Or how should we be thinking about that and the cadence of it over the next 2 or 3 years?**Heather Jones:** ๋„ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์…”๋จผ์ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ์ˆ˜์ง ํ†ตํ•ฉ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์„œ ์ €๋น„์šฉ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ž ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์น˜ํ™”ํ•ด์„œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•˜์‹œ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์ง€๋งŒ, ์ •์„ฑ์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด์š”. Echo Lake, ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๊ณต ๊ณ„๋ž€ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณผ ๋•Œ, Cal-Maine์˜ ์ „๋žต์ด ์ž์‚ฌ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค๋กœ ์ ์  ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์ „ํ™˜ํ•ด์„œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ํŒ๋งคํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ณ , ํ–ฅํ›„ 2-3๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์†๋„๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director Great question. Vertical integration is important to us to be able to have control over each step of the process to create efficiencies in each step of the process and to ultimately ensure supply for our customers. It's very important to us. And we've even thought of it as a skyscraper approach, each step along the way, adding another floor to that skyscraper. And every floor, it creates efficiencies, it creates value for the end consumer that we all benefit from and leveraging low cost. We have a great capacity to learn with the broadness of our -- and diversity of our locations. And that learning can be shared among our locations, and we all benefit in a hurry from it. And as far as the Echo Lake piece, we certainly have some agreements in place at the time of the acquisition that we absolutely honor for sourcing eggs. And the thing that we really think we bring to the table is stabilizing their supply during some of these crazy periods over the last few years where supply was there and then wasn't there. We do have the breaking capacity to supply these. And for sure, we want to ensure that they have the eggs that they need to continue to grow that business. So we'll continue to develop our long-term plan, but ensuring they have supply is one of the key factors there.**Sherman Miller:** ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์ง ํ†ตํ•ฉ์€ ๊ฐ ๊ณต์ • ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด์ฃ . ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ฒœ๋ฃจ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ทธ ๋งˆ์ฒœ๋ฃจ์— ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ธต์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งค ์ธต๋งˆ๋‹ค ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ , ์ €๋น„์šฉ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ตœ์ข… ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๊ฐ€ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—…์žฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ํ•™์Šต ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ•™์Šต ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ๊ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์žฅ ๊ฐ„์— ๊ณต์œ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ์—…์žฅ์ด ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Echo Lake ๊ฑด์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ธ์ˆ˜ ๋‹น์‹œ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๋œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ๋“ค์„ ์ฒ ์ €ํžˆ ์ค€์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง๋กœ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŒŒ์‡„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ํ™•๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์š”์†Œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: [Operator Instructions] All right. This will conclude the Q&A session. I will pass it back to Sherman Miller for final remarks.**Operator:** [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด] ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์„ธ์…˜์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด Sherman Miller์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋„˜๊ฒจ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Sherman Miller: CEO, President & Director Once again, thank everybody for their time. We'd look forward to this day to have our first call, and we look forward to having greater visibility going forward. And thanks for all the thoughtful questions today, your continued interest in Cal-Maine Foods. And operator, we're ready to conclude the call.**Sherman Miller:** ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋‚ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์˜ค๋Š˜์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ด์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋ ค ๊นŠ์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค๊ณผ Cal-Maine Foods์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ฝœ์„ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Thank you so much. This concludes today's conference call. A replay of today's call will be available beginning at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on October 1, 2025 for 1 year and can be accessed on the Events and Presentations page in the Investor Relations section of Cal-Maine's website. A transcript of today's call will also be posted in the Investor Relations section. Thank you all for participating. You may now disconnect.**Operator:** ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ†ตํ™”์˜ ์žฌ์ƒ์€ 2025๋…„ 10์›” 1์ผ ๋™๋ถ€์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์˜คํ›„ 12์‹œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 1๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ด์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, Cal-Maine ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์„น์…˜์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ ๋ฐ ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์—์„œ ์ ‘์†ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ†ตํ™”์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ก๋„ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์„น์…˜์— ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋Š์œผ์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Here's a Korean summary of the key points from the earnings call transcript:

โ€ข ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ
- ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ฑ…์ •์—์„œ ์›๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ฑ…์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ „ํ™˜ ์ค‘
- Echo Lake ์ธ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ข‹์€ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ, ์‹œ๋„ˆ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ $15๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ์ด์ƒ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ ์ „๋ง

โ€ข ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ํ˜„ํ™ฉ
- ํ˜„์žฌ ์‚ฐ๋ž€๊ณ„ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜ 301.4๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ 5๋…„ ํ‰๊ท  ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€
- ์กฐ๋ฅ˜์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์—”์ž(HPAI)๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์œ„ํ—˜ ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉ, ์ด๋ฏธ 3.1๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์†Œ

โ€ข ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋žต
- ํŠน์ˆ˜๋ž€(์ผ€์ด์ง€ํ”„๋ฆฌ, ๋ฐฉ๋ชฉ) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ง€์†
- Echo Lake ํ†ตํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ณต์‹ํ’ˆ ์‚ฌ์—… ํ™•๋Œ€, 10% ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ์ฆ์„ค ํˆฌ์ž ์ง„ํ–‰
- ์ˆ˜์ง๊ณ„์—ดํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ์›๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ ์œ ์ง€๊ฐ€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ „๋žต

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ข…ํ•ฉํ•ด๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ํ†ค์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.