Quanex Building Products Corp (NYSE:NX) does about 411.75K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2049931 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 1.30B USD. Its current market price is $28.23, marking a decrease of -2.35% compared to the previous close of $28.91. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $39.31 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $24.85.
Quanex Building Products Corp (NX) has a 20-day trading average at $29.64 and the current price is -28.18% off the 52-week high compared with 13.60% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $29.58 and its 200-day simple moving average is $30.94. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.93%, which decreases to 3.19% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 40.39 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $38.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 25.71% over the period.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 1 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 1 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.
Sidoti upgraded its price target at $19.
The current price level is -4.76%, -4.57%, and -8.76% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the NX price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Quanex Building Products Corp (NX) stock is down -3.29% over the week and -8.08% over the past month. Its price is -7.65% year-to-date and -15.05% over the past year.
The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.2 and 2.37 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $455.9M, which analysts say will come at $1.89B for the current fiscal year and next year at $1.92B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $426.8M.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 25.71 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 47.25M with insiders holding 0.84% of the shares and institutional holders owning 98.61% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 1.77% and return on equity of 4.25%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 25.22 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 10.69. The beta has a value of 1.27. Price to book ratio is 1.57 and price to sales ratio is 1.02.
