On Tuesday, Quanex Building Products Corp (NYSE: NX) was -5.03% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $19.7. A 52-week range for NX has been $15.30 – $34.97.
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When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 19.29%. With a float of $45.51 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $45.97 million.
The firm has a total of 7068 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 24.66%, operating margin of 3.71%, and the pretax margin is 1.32%.
Quanex Building Products Corp (NX) Insider Activity
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Quanex Building Products Corp stocks. The insider ownership of Quanex Building Products Corp is 1.00%, while institutional ownership is 104.75%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 19 ’24, was worth 99,674. In this transaction President & CEO of this company bought 4,328 shares at a rate of $23.03, taking the stock ownership to the 287,644 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 19 ’24, when Company’s Senior VP, CFO & Treasurer bought 435 for $23.10, making the entire transaction worth $10,048. This insider now owns 74,297 shares in total.
Quanex Building Products Corp (NX) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 19.29% per share during the next fiscal year.
Quanex Building Products Corp (NYSE: NX) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Quanex Building Products Corp (NX) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.26. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.53. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 40.18.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.59, a number that is poised to hit 0.84 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.85 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Quanex Building Products Corp (NX)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Quanex Building Products Corp, NX], we can find that recorded value of 0.41 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 0.46 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 31.07%.
During the past 100 days, Quanex Building Products Corp’s (NX) raw stochastic average was set at 52.34%, which indicates a significant increase from 9.43% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 0.88 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 0.86 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $18.60, while its 200-day Moving Average is $22.57. Now, the first resistance to watch is $19.54. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $20.36. The third major resistance level sits at $20.87. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $18.21, it is likely to go to the next support level at $17.70. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $16.88.
Quanex Building Products Corp (NYSE: NX) Key Stats
There are 45,973K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 860.16 million. As of now, sales total 1,278 M while income totals 33,060 K. Its latest quarter income was 452,480 K while its last quarter net income were 20,520 K.
