Quanex Building Products CORP
Quanex Building Products CORP (NX) is listed on NYSE and classified in Building Products & Equipment, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Houston, United States and has 7,071 employees. The company is worth $946.31M and trades at 20.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $1.84B in fiscal 2025, up 43.8% from the year before. It reported a net loss of $250.81M. The share price is 11.5% below its 52-week high of $23.33. It pays a dividend yielding 1.55%. 3 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $11.52M. In that quarter, 2 of them reduced the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -11.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $980.38▼ -2.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
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| Year-end price | $15.38 | $24.24 | $30.57 | $23.68 | $24.78 | $22.17 | $17.08 | $13.59 | $23.40 | $20.30 | $20.85 | $18.78 | $19.92 | $20.41 | $15.02 | $18.97 | $16.97 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 24.1 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KFRCKforce Inc | $53.66 | 24.3x | 7.3x | 2.96% | 28.27% | $961M |
| FCELFuelcell Energy Inc | $11.58 | — | 0.9x | 0.00% | -21.38% | $925.87M |
| APOGApogee Enterprises Inc | $44.29 | 13.8x | 1.8x | 2.44% | 13.11% | $925.47M |
| NPKINPK International Inc. | $10.76 |
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| 26.9x |
| 12.2x |
| 8.9x |
| 14.6x |
| 18.9x |
| — |
| 17.9x |
| 43.3x |
| — |
| 44.4x |
| 24.1x |
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| 62.6x |
| 31.1x |
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| P/S | 0.9x | 0.4x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 1.1x |
| P/B | 1.7x | 1.0x | 1.1x | 1.8x | 1.7x | 2.0x | 2.0x | 1.7x | 1.2x | 2.0x | 1.9x | 1.8x | 1.6x | 1.8x | 1.8x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 1.5x |
| EPS | -$5.43 | $0.90 | $2.50 | $2.66 | $1.70 | $1.17 | -$1.42 | $0.76 | $0.54 | -$0.05 | $0.47 | $0.78 | -$0.32 | -$0.45 | $0.24 | $0.61 | -$3.67 |
| Dividend yield | 1.05% | 2.08% | 1.32% | 1.05% | 1.35% | 1.29% | 1.44% | 1.87% | 1.77% | 0.68% | 0.79% | 0.77% | 0.85% | 0.80% | 0.78% | 1.07% | 0.79% | 0.71% |
| Payout | 27.35% | — | 35.56% | 12.80% | 12.03% | 18.82% | 27.35% | — | 31.58% | 29.63% | — | 34.04% | 20.51% | — | — | 66.67% | 24.59% | — |
| Profit margin | 2.49% | -13.65% | 2.59% | 7.30% | 7.23% | 5.31% | 4.52% | -5.23% | 2.98% | 2.16% | -0.20% | 2.49% | 4.91% | -2.11% | -3.45% | 1.07% | 2.89% | -23.43% |
| ROE | 4.07% | -34.54% | 3.27% | 15.12% | 19.00% | 13.57% | 10.82% | -14.15% | 6.72% | 4.58% | -0.50% | 4.07% | 6.95% | -2.81% | -3.92% | 2.07% | 5.23% | -32.45% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Dividend growing 0.5% a year against a 8.6% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-20.2% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 23.4x |
| 2.5x |
| 0.00% |
| 11.18% |
| $913.63M |
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