NXQuanex Building Products Corporation
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though modest expectations priced in.
Priced for a decline (~−4% a year). The price bakes in little to no growth.
In its normal range: P/E 19.3 vs a 14.3 median over 28 quarters (+35% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What NX's price assumes
Quanex Building Products Corporation trades at 19.3× earnings against 23.6× for the median Building Products & Equipment name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Building Products & Equipment median 23.6 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Free cash flow yield
- 11%
Free cash flow yield · Building Products & Equipment median 6.3%
- Growth the price implies
- −4.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −4.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −7.5% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Building Products & Equipment median P/E25 names
- 23.6
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $91M
- Market capitalisation
- $853M
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −7.5%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $10.83 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $13.76 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $23.29 |
| 52-week range | $11.09 – $22.86 |
| Today | $18.57 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Building Products & Equipment
Ranks #17 of 19 by RyuScore