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Quanex Building Products is a building products & equipment business based in the US. Quanex Building Products shares (NX) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Quanex Building Products employs 3,860 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.2 billion.
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| Latest market close | $18.71 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $18.73 - $25.84 |
| 50-day moving average | $23.27 |
| 200-day moving average | $22.37 |
| Wall St. target price | $32.25 |
| PE ratio | 8.0158 |
| Dividend yield | $0.32 (1.62%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.53 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $18.71 from 2022-09-23
| 1 week (2022-09-19) | -7.74% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2022-08-26) | -19.73% |
| 3 months (2022-06-24) | -17.43% |
| 6 months (2022-03-25) | -15.95% |
| 1 year (2021-09-24) | -13.78% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2020-09-25) | 4.35% |
| 3 years (2019-09-26) | 2.46% |
| 5 years (2017-09-26) | 21.6 |
Valuing Quanex Building Products stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Quanex Building Products's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Quanex Building Products's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 8x. In other words, Quanex Building Products shares trade at around 8x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Quanex Building Products's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.45. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Quanex Building Products's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Quanex Building Products's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $151.5 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Quanex Building Products's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $1.2 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 9.18% |
| Gross profit TTM | $240.6 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 9.46% |
| Return on equity TTM | 19.77% |
| Profit margin | 7.01% |
| Book value | $13.68 |
| Market capitalisation | $671.9 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 12.55% of net profits
Recently Quanex Building Products has paid out, on average, around 12.55% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.62% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Quanex Building Products shareholders could enjoy a 1.62% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Quanex Building Products's case, that would currently equate to about $0.32 per share.
While Quanex Building Products's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Quanex Building Products is investing more in its future growth.
Quanex Building Products's most recent dividend payout was on 29 September 2022. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 14 September 2022 (the "ex-dividend date").
Quanex Building Products's shares were split on a 3:2 basis on 2 April 2006. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Quanex Building Products shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Quanex Building Products shares which in turn could have impacted Quanex Building Products's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Quanex Building Products's shares have ranged in value from as little as $18.7275 up to $25.8357. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Quanex Building Products's is 1.3136. This would suggest that Quanex Building Products's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Quanex Building Products Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides components for the fenestration industry in the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North American Fenestration, European Fenestration, and North American Cabinet Components. It offers flexible insulating glass spacers, extruded vinyl profiles, window and door screens, and precision-formed metal and wood products, as well as cabinet doors and other components for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the kitchen and bathroom cabinet industry. The company also provides various non-fenestration components and products, including solar panel sealants, trim moldings, vinyl decking, fencing, water retention barriers, and conservatory roof components. It sells its products to OEMs in the building products industry through sales representatives, direct sales force, distributors, and independent sales agents. The company was founded in 1927 and is based in Houston, Texas. .
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