NX Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Quanex Building Prods | NYSE:NX)

Quanex Building Products Corp is a manufacturer of components sold to original equipment manufacturers in the building products industry. It manufactures engineered products like window and door components that include flexible insulating glass spacers, extruded vinyl profiles, window and door screens, solar panel sealants and precision-formed metal and wood products among others. Its four operating segments are North American Fenestration being the key revenue driver, European Fenestration, North American Cabinet Components, and Tyman. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from the United States.

Quanex Building Prods trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol NX.

As of February 27, 2026, NX stock price declined to $20.53 with 554,897 million shares trading.

NX has a beta of 1.21, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. NX has a correlation of 0.13 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NX has a market cap of $943.12 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Quanex Building Prods reported $490 million in Revenue and $.83 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $19 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.32.

In the last 3 years, NX traded as high as $39.31 and as low as $11.04.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NX belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, IWM, VB, IJS.

NX has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +3.7% while the SPY ETF gained +16.6%. However, in the short term, NX had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +60.1% vs +1.2% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, NX shares have been beat by the market, returning -6.2% compared to an SPY return of +0.7%.

NX support price is $20.28 and resistance is $21.42 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that NX shares will trade within this expected range on the day.