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 demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 18% a year, expectations look modest.
In its normal range: P/E 20.8 vs a 14.3 median over 28 quarters (+45% 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 20.8× earnings against 24.9× for the median Building Products & Equipment name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Building Products & Equipment median 24.9 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Free cash flow yield
- 9.9%
Free cash flow yield · Building Products & Equipment median 6.3%
- Growth the price implies
- −3.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −3.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −7.5% a year over the last three.
- Price / book
- 1.09
Price / book · as of 2026-Q3
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- Price / bookas of 2026-Q3
- 1.09
- EV / EBITas of 2026-Q3
- 12.8
- Industrials median P/E434 names
- 26.2
- Building Products & Equipment median P/E25 names
- 24.9
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $91M
- Market capitalisation45.8 million shares, counted Aug 28, 2026
- $916M
- 3-year revenue growth
- +18%
- 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 | $19.99 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
What is it worth?
Today's price against what its own multiples, its cash flow and your growth assumption say it is worth.
Against its own past
Its multiples now against their own history, and how much of the price move came from earnings rather than the multiple.
Building Products & Equipment
Ranks #17 of 19 by RyuScore