Quanex Building Products Corporation (NX)

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Quanex Building Products Corporation's filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2026-01-16) (its current reports).

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Quanex Building Products Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $928 million in fiscal 2016 to $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7.9% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 8% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-10-31, Quanex Building Products Corporation's diluted share count grew about 11.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 19% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale (1 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-10-31, Quanex Building Products Corporation lost about 35 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 25 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 63 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 26.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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Quanex Building Products Corporation's standing among 28 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 40% by size; a net margin of -13.6% ranks in the bottom 6%; revenue growth of 14.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 12% (its annual reports).

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Quanex Building Products Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Wilson, George Laverne (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-11-10, 6 years (top 48% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (bottom 26%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (top 22%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Quanex Building Products Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $76 million against debt of $665 million leaves -29.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 15% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 5.6% of revenue (top 43%); a gross margin of 27.2% (top 28%) (its annual report).

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Quanex Building Products Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 14.6% a year over the last three filed years against 7.9% over all 10, speeding up (top 12% of its family); the newest year grew 43.8% (top 5%); capital spending grew 23.7% a year (top 27%) (its annual reports). Quanex Building Products Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Hardware Solutions at $842 million, Extruded Solutions at $647 million, Custom Solutions at $388 million. 3 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 45% of revenue (its annual report).

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Quanex Building Products Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 40.6% above the $1.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 6% of its family); net income of $251 million against a prior three-year average of $68 million (bottom 6%); a net margin of -13.6% against 5.7% before (bottom 6%) (its annual reports).