Quanex Building Products Corporation (NX): Price and Financial Metrics

NX POWR Grades

• NX scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 88.64% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for NX is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• NX's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 51.66% of US stocks).

NX Stock Summary

• NX's went public 34.27 years ago, making it older than 89.7% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• NX's price/sales ratio is 0.67; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 16.12% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, NX is more volatile than only 11.74% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to NX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are PFC, GABC, WERN, SPFI, and RVSB.
• Visit NX's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.quanex.com.

NX Valuation Summary

• NX's price/sales ratio is 0.7; this is 69.57% lower than that of the median Basic Materials stock.
• NX's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 76.1 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, NX's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NX.

NX Growth Metrics

Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 12.18%.
• The 2 year price growth rate now stands at -24.64%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 176.72%.

Over the past 34 months, NX's revenue has gone up $210,124,000.

The table below shows NX's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	1,109.042	60.332	60.367
2021-09-30	1,072.149	78.588	56.98
2021-06-30	1,035.786	100.67	58.234
2021-03-31	968.005	127.284	55.388
2020-12-31	885.123	101.058	46.338
2020-09-30	851.573	100.796	38.496

NX's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• NX has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 76.25% of graded US stocks.
• NX's asset turnover comes in at 1.469 -- ranking 8th of 41 Steel Works Etc stocks.
• UAMY, SXC, and NANX are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NX.

The table below shows NX's key quality metrics over time.