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Quanex Building Products Corporation

Industrials · Building Products & Equipment · valued as of 2026-11-03 · statements 2025-10-31

Average Intrinsic Value

710.00M USD

Market Cap

917.44M USD

Margin of Safety

-29.2%

Intrinsic / Market Ratio

0.77×

Projections, not exact values. Intrinsic Values are projected from each company's past reports. They show which stocks look cheap compared with the others, not exactly what a stock is worth.

How Each Value Is Built

The screener's three formulas on the reported figures. Each card reads the same way: the value as a sum of numbered terms, each term's calculation opened under it, from the reported figures to the value. The list ranks companies by their plain average over the market cap.

EPV + Growth

672.43M USD

what the normal year's earnings are worth for ever, plus growth that pays

Profit

746.19M USD

15 years of cash the shareholders can take out, and the equity left at year 15

FCFF

711.37M USD

15 years of cash for shareholders and lenders, less what is owed

Intrinsic Value

710.00M USD

the plain average of the three, uncapped, as the screener averages them

Intrinsic Value

710.00M USD

from the sum above

Market Cap

917.44M USD

the price on the date above times the shares

Intrinsic Value ÷ Market Cap

0.77×

the ratio the screener ranks by; Margin of Safety -29.2% (1 − Market Cap ÷ Intrinsic Value)

Each card below builds one of the three values from the reported years.

Earnings power value plus growth: 672.43M USD
What the normal year's operating profit after tax is worth if it lasts for ever, plus what the new investment adds beyond its cost, less the net debt that comes before the shareholders (or plus the net cash).
①EPV (earnings power value)1.45B USD
−②Net Debt Today781.16M USD
+③Growth Value0 USD
=Value672.43M USD

EPV of the Operations (NOPAT over WACC)

1.45B USD

Net debt today

-781.16M USD

Growth Value

0 USD

Value

672.43M USD

①EPV (earnings power value)

1.45B USD

②Net Debt Today

781.16M USD

③Growth Value

0 USD

Market value

Market Cap917.44M USD

The price on the date above times the shares.

Value vs market

Margin of Safety-36.4%

1 minus the market cap as a share of the value.

Profit value: today's value of the shareholders' equity, from the cash it can pay them (FCFE): 746.19M USD
Fifteen years of free cash flow to equity (FCFE), each brought to today at the cost of equity, plus the equity at year 15 brought to today.

The projection was not made (a profit at or below zero in the latest three years), so the value is the book value today, 746.19M USD, as the screener leaves it.

①Present Value of the 15 Years of FCFE

Not in the value

②Equity at Year 15, Today

Not in the value

Market value

Market Cap917.44M USD

The price on the date above times the shares.

Value vs market

Margin of Safety-23.0%

1 minus the market cap as a share of the value.

FCFF value: today's value of the shareholders' equity, from the cash the firm can pay its shareholders and lenders (FCFF): 711.37M USD
Fifteen years of free cash flow to the firm (FCFF), each brought to today at the WACC, plus the invested capital at year 15 brought to today, less the net debt today (or plus the net cash).
①Present Value of the 15 Years of FCFF995.75M USD
+②Invested Capital at Year 15, Today496.78M USD
−③Net Debt Today781.16M USD
=Value711.37M USD
FCFF: the NOPAT left for the shareholders and the lenders once the business reinvests what next year's growth needsReinvestment: the part of the year's NOPAT put back into the business to grow the next year; below zero, capital the business releasesPresent value of the FCFFColoured bars show the FCFF, grey bars the reinvestment. With a positive reinvestment the two stacked are the year's NOPAT; with a negative one the grey is below zero, capital the business releases, and the NOPAT is the FCFF plus that negative amount. Shaded, years 6 to 10: the growth rising to its long-run rate and the ROIC on new investment falling to the WACC. Axes linear.

①Present Value of the 15 Years of FCFF

995.75M USD

②Invested Capital at Year 15, Today

496.78M USD

③Net Debt Today

781.16M USD

Market value

Market Cap917.44M USD

The price on the date above times the shares.

Value vs market

Margin of Safety-29.0%

1 minus the market cap as a share of the value.

The Rates and the Capital the Values Read

The WACC and the cost of equity each value is discounted at, the book value and the net debt each starts from, and the seven quality metrics, from the same run.

WACC: 7.63%
Cost of Equity =Risk-Free Rate 4.50%+Beta 0.93×Market Risk Premium 6.00%= 10.07%

The yearly return the shareholders require for the risk they carry; it is the rate that brings their future cash to today.

Tax Rate for WACC 25.00% (default): the statements print a tax provision of 8.22M USD on a pretax income of -242.84M USD, which gives no rate between 0 and the profit before tax, so the 25% default stands for the tax the interest saves.

Interest Expense =EBIT -186.97M USD−Pretax Income -242.84M USD= 55.87M USD

The interest the company paid: EBIT is the profit before tax plus the interest.

Cost of Debt =Interest Expense 55.87M USDTotal Debt 843.32M USD×(1 − Tax Rate for WACC 25.00%)= 4.97%

What the lenders are paid a year after the tax the interest saves.

Debt Weight =Total Debt 843.32M USDMarket Cap + Total Debt 917.44M USD + 843.32M USD= 47.90%

The part of the capital the lenders put in, at market value.

WACC =Equity Weight 52.10%×Cost of Equity 10.07%+Debt Weight 47.90%×Cost of Debt 4.97%= 7.63%

Weighted average cost of capital: the yearly return the shareholders and the lenders together require, weighted by what each puts in; the rate that brings the firm's future cash to today.

Book value and net debt today
Both from the balance sheet of the newest quarter, 2026-07-31.

Total Assets 1.97B USD − Total Liabilities 1.22B USD = Book Value Today 746.19M USD

Total Debt 843.32M USD − Cash and Short-Term Investments 62.16M USD = Net Debt Today 781.16M USD

The book value is what Profit starts from and what stands when a projection is not made; the book value plus the net debt is what FCFF starts from; the net debt comes off Greenwald's and FCFF's values before the shareholders.

Quality metrics
Read beside the value, never a condition for it: every company is valued, and a filter in the list is the reader's choice.
MetricFrom
Share dilutionShares Today ÷ Shares Two Years Back − 138.8%at most 5%does not pass45,823,208 / 33,011,119
Accrual quality(Operating Cash Flow − Net Income) ÷ Total Assets21.1%at least -10.0%passes(165.06M USD − -251.06M USD) ÷ 1.97B USD
Price to bookMarket Cap ÷ Book Value Today1.23×at most 3×passes917.44M USD ÷ 746.19M USD
Operating marginOperating Income ÷ Revenue6.4%above 10.0%does not pass118.64M USD ÷ 1.84B USD
Revenue growthRevenue ÷ Revenue a Year Before − 143.8%above 10.0%passes1.84B USD / 1.28B USD
Net cash(Cash − Total Debt) ÷ Market Cap-85.1%above -30%does not pass(62.16M USD − 843.32M USD) ÷ 917.44M USD
Operating efficiencyOperating Income ÷ Gross Profit23.7%above 25.0%does not pass118.64M USD ÷ 499.73M USD

Market Data

The provider's ratios and the analysts' consensus beside the argument; none of them enters a value.

Share price

20.02 USD

Enterprise value

1.69B USD

the provider's own figure

EV / EBITDA

8.05×

Price / book

1.22×

the provider's book

Price / earnings

20.62×

Return on equity

6.2%

the provider's figure, not this page's

Profit margin

2.4%

Revenue growth

1.3%

Analyst target, mean

26.03 USD

Analysts

4

opinions in the consensus

Financial Statements

The annual lines the screener holds, year by year, in USD at each period's rate; the figures this valuation read are in its calculation above.

USD2022202320242025
Income statement

Revenue

1.22B1.13B1.28B1.84B

Gross profit

268.77M277.80M305.93M499.73M

Operating income

111.39M110.81M54.88M118.64M

EBITDA

operating income before depreciation and amortisation

152.58M148.20M123.13M-83.42M

Pretax income

109.87M97.14M42.12M-242.84M

Net income

88.42M82.58M33.09M-251.06M

Normalized income

net income without one-off items, as the data provider prints it; Profit's line when printed

88.10M82.71M28.72M-21.96M

R&D

————
Balance sheet, year end

Total assets

725.34M831.97M2.32B1.97B

Total liabilities

260.04M285.87M1.31B1.24B

Shareholders' equity

the equity the parent's shareholders own, as printed, without minority interest; the book value the values read is total assets less total liabilities, in Book Value and Net Debt above

465.30M546.10M1.01B726.91M

Total debt

87.77M116.50M893.87M854.59M

Cash and equivalents

55.15M58.53M97.84M76.09M

Net PP&E

fixed assets after depreciation

236.64M297.58M529.71M567.02M

Working capital

current assets less current liabilities

140.96M139.08M338.74M292.52M
Cash flow

Operating cash flow

98.06M147.20M88.90M165.06M

Capital expenditure

paid out, so below zero

-33.15M-37.43M-37.12M-62.70M

Depreciation and amortisation

40.15M42.91M60.39M103.55M

Free cash flow

operating cash flow plus capital expenditure

64.91M109.77M51.78M102.36M