As on Thursday, Quanex Building Products Corp (NYSE: NX) got off with the flyer as it spiked 2.28% to $16.18, before settling in for the price of $15.82 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, NX posted a 52-week range of $15.53-$35.92.
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It was noted that the giant of the Industrials sector posted annual sales growth of 8.14% over the last 5 years. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 16.78%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $47.23 million, simultaneously with a float of $46.76 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $764.18 million. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $19.47, while the 200-day Moving Average is $25.60.
Quanex Building Products Corp (NX) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Building Products & Equipment industry. Quanex Building Products Corp’s current insider ownership accounts for 1.00%, in contrast to 101.29% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Dec 19 ’24, this organization’s President & CEO bought 4,328 shares at the rate of 23.03, making the entire transaction reach 99,674 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 287,644. Preceding that transaction, on Dec 19 ’24, Company’s Senior VP, CFO & Treasurer bought 435 for 23.10, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 10,048. This particular insider is now the holder of 74,297 in total.
Quanex Building Products Corp (NX) Earnings and Revenue Records
Quanex Building Products Corp’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 16.78% and is forecasted to reach 2.87 in the upcoming year.
Quanex Building Products Corp (NYSE: NX) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Quanex Building Products Corp (NX). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.17. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.12. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $26.20, and its Beta score is 1.05. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.53. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 22.93.
In the same vein, NX’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 0.62, a figure that is expected to reach 0.48 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 2.87 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Quanex Building Products Corp (NX)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Quanex Building Products Corp, NX], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 0.32 million was lower the volume of 0.49 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 21.64% While, its Average True Range was 1.14.
Raw Stochastic average of Quanex Building Products Corp (NX) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 3.89%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 18.84% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 90.08% that was higher than 55.07% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
