Quanex Building Products Corporation NX

Quanex trades at $20.07 per share and has stayed right on track with the overall market, gaining 16.3% over the last six months. At the same time, the S&P 500 has returned 16.4%.

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Quanex Building Products Corp (NX) reports a 1.3% increase in net sales and a 3.5% rise in free cash flow, while navigating soft new construction markets and tariff impacts.

Quanex Building Products Corporation has reported past third-quarter 2026 results showing sales of US$501.85 million and net income of US$26.5 million, a reversal from a very large net loss a year earlier, alongside a quarterly dividend declaration of US$0.08 per share. The swing from a loss per share of US$6.04 to earnings per share of US$0.58 from continuing operations points to a substantial improvement in profitability and cost discipline across the business. We’ll now examine how this...

Building products company Quanex (NYSE:NX) beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q2 CY2026, with sales up 1.3% year on year to $501.8 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.79 per share was 20.2% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Shares of building products company Quanex (NYSE:NX) jumped 21.1% in the afternoon session after the company announced its second-quarter 2026 financial results which exceeded Wall Street’s expectations for sales and earnings per share.

Quanex Building Products Corporation (NYSE:NX) reported fiscal third-quarter net sales of $501.8 million, up 1.3% from $495.3 million a year earlier. Gross margin increased to 28.2% from 27.9%, while company-defined non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA rose to $72.7 million from $70.3 million and adjusted EBITDA margin improved to 14.5% from 14.2%. Adjusted EBITDA starts with earnings before […]

Moby summary of Quanex Building Products Corporation's Q3 2026 earnings call

Quanex (NX) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +16.18% and +0.77%, respectively, for the quarter ended July 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

Building products company Quanex (NYSE:NX) reported Q2 CY2026 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 1.3% year on year to $501.8 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.79 per share was 20.2% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Net Sales GrowthVolumes Continue to Track Normal Seasonality PatternsMargin Expansion Realized in Hardware Solutions Segment and on Consolidated Basis$42.25 Million of Debt Repaid in 3Q26Continued Progress and Execution on Working Capital Management HOUSTON, Sept. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quanex Building Products Corporation (NYSE:NX) (“Quanex” or the “Company”) today announced its results for the three months ended July 31, 2026. The Company reported the following selected financial results