calmaine foods inc on tuesday reported that sales more than doubled and its profit increased eightfold in the third quarter as prices for eggs rose significantly and even as avian bird flu continued to affect egg production calmaine foods calm shares rose about 4 after hours after falling 18 in the regular session to close at 5427 as its results beat wall street expectations the largest egg producer and distributor in the united states reported thirdquarter net income of 3232 million or 662 a share compared with 395 million or 81 cents a share in the yearago period revenue more than doubled to 9975 million from 4775 million in the yearago quarter the average selling price per dozen eggs rose to 368 compared with 146 in the yearago period analysts surveyed by factset had forecast earnings of 547 a share on revenue of 8882 million they had expected an average selling price of 317 per dozen eggs mississippibased calmaine did not provide numbers for a fourthquarter outlook though it did say “the highly pathogenic avian influenza hpai outbreak will continue to exert downward pressure on the overall supply of eggs” analysts had forecast earnings of 299 a share on revenue of 6976 million the company also said it would pay a cash dividend of about 220 a share for the third fiscal quarter payable on may 11 to holders of record on april 26 also this week calmaine named todd walters chief operating officer he had been vice president of operations for the company’s operations in south texas since 2011 shares of calmaine have risen about 02 so far this year while the sp 500 index spx has increased 325 year to date