Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc. (CNR): Price and Financial Metrics

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Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc. (CNR) Company Bio

Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, engineers, manufactures, and markets external building products for the commercial, residential, and repair and remodel construction markets in North America. The company operates through three segments: Commercial, Siding, and Windows. The Commercial segment manufactures and distributes various metal products for the nonresidential construction markets under various brand names through a network of plants and distribution centers. It also provides metal coil coating services for commercial and construction applications. The Siding segment offers vinyl siding and skirting products, steel siding products, vinyl and aluminum soffit products, aluminum trim coils, aluminum gutter coils, aluminum gutters, aluminum and steel roofing accessories, cellular PVC trims and moldings, J-channels, wide crown moldings, window and door trims, F-channels, H-molds, fascia, undersill trims, outside/inside corner posts, rain removal systems, and injection molded designer accents, such as shakes; shingles; scallops; shutters; vents and mounts; vinyl fence; vinyl railing; and stone veneer. The Windows segment provides vinyl, aluminum-clad vinyl, aluminum, wood, and clad-wood windows and patio doors; and steel, wood, and fiberglass entry doors. The company was formerly known as NCI Building Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc. in May 2019. Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina.

CNR Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation

We started the process of determining a valid price forecast for Cornerstone Building Brands Inc with a discounted cash flow analysis -- the results of which can be found in the table below. To summarize, we found that Cornerstone Building Brands Inc ranked in the 75th percentile in terms of potential gain offered. Moreover, under all the scenarios we modelled, the output consistently forecasted positive returns. The most interesting components of our discounted cash flow analysis for Cornerstone Building Brands Inc ended up being:

• 28% of the company's capital comes from equity, which is greater than only 6.71% of stocks in our cash flow based forecasting set.
• Cornerstone Building Brands Inc's interest coverage rate -- a measure of gross earnings relative to interest payments -- comes in at -1.26. This coverage rate is greater than that of merely 19.52% of stocks we're observing for the purpose of forecasting via discounted cash flows.
• As a business, Cornerstone Building Brands Inc experienced a tax rate of about 1% over the past twelve months; relative to its sector (Basic Materials), this tax rate is higher than just 21.2% of stocks generating free cash flow.

AWI, KRA, IBP, WMS, and SBSW can be thought of as valuation peers to CNR, in the sense that they are in the Basic Materials sector and have a similar price forecast based on DCF valuation.