After Hours
After-hours and pre-market trading may carry slightly higher risks than regular market hours. As issuers often announce important financial information outside regular trading hours, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads for a particular security. That is because extended-hours trading may result in lower liquidity and higher volatility.
Stocks Info
NX belongs to the Industrials sector of the NYSE while operating in the Building Products & Equipment industry. The current market capitalization of Quanex Building Products Corp is $574.83M. A total of 0.77 million shares were traded on the day, compared to an average of 636.74K shares.
In the most recent transaction, Hughes Bradley E. bought 6,500 shares of NX for 15.27 per share on Sep 11 ’25. After the transaction, the Director now owns 6,500 company shares. In a previous transaction on Dec 19 ’24, Wilson George Laverne bought 4,328 shares at 23.03 per share. NX shares that President & CEO owns now total 287,644.
Among the insiders who bought shares, Zuehlke Scott M. acquired of 435 shares on Dec 19 ’24 at a per-share price of $23.10. This resulted in the Senior VP, CFO & Treasurer holding 74,297 shares of NX after the transaction. In another insider transaction, Wilson George Laverne sold 6,300 shares at $29.39 per share on Dec 02 ’24. Company shares held by the President & CEO now total 233,167.
While price targets are rarely accurate, they tend to exert some kind of influence from time to time and are often taken into account by investors. In terms of 52-week highs and lows, NX has a high of $32.23 and a low of $11.04.
As of this writing, NX has an earnings estimate of $0.53 per share for the current quarter. EPS was calculated based on a consensus of 4.0 estimates, with a high estimate of $0.58 per share and a lower estimate of $0.5. The company reported an EPS of $0.61 in the last quarter
Balance Sheet Annually/Quarterly
An organization’s balance sheet depicts the assets and liabilities it has, as well as the amount of equity invested. Investors can measure a company’s prospects by calculating its financial ratios using this information. NX’s latest balance sheet shows that the firm has $40.06M in Cash & Short Term Investments as of fiscal 2021. There were $106.50M in debt and $158.00M in liabilities at the time. Its Book Value Per Share was $15.64, while its Total Shareholder’s Equity was $419.78M.
Analysts Opinion
There is a slight risk associated with trading before and after the market open. Due to lower liquidity and higher volatility, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads on particular security due to the release of critical financial information after regular trading hours. Currently, 0 analysts are providing their opinions on the stock. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being Sell and 5 being Buy, the average analyst rating for NX is Buy with a score of 4.33.
