NX Quanex Building Products CORP

Overview and Growth

Quanex Building Products CORP generated $1.84B of revenue in fiscal 2025, with net loss of $250.81M and an operating cash inflow of $164.90M. The $1.84B revenue base provides substantial context for the company’s earnings, cash generation, and capital requirements. Compared with $1.28B in fiscal 2024, revenue recorded a 43.8% year-over-year increase. Diluted earnings per share were -$5.43, translating the period’s attributable earnings into the amount reported for each diluted share. Diluted EPS decreased by 703.3% from $0.90 in fiscal 2024, showing how the earnings change reached shareholders on a per-share basis. The company employed $1.97B of total assets, the balance-sheet base supporting its current operating and cash-flow results. Revenue equaled 0.93x of total assets, indicating how much reported top-line activity the company produced relative to its period-end asset base.

Profitability

After reported cost of revenue, the company retained $499.23M as gross profit before recognizing operating expenses and other items. Gross margin was 27.2%, so that share of each revenue unit remained after the cost of revenue reported for the period. Operations produced a $193.95M operating loss before non-operating and tax effects. An operating margin of -10.6% reflected costs exceeding revenue-level gross profit by 10.6% of sales. The company ended the period with a net loss of $250.81M, extending the operating result through all remaining items. Measured against revenue, the bottom-line deficit represented 13.6% after all recognized items. The pretax result was a loss of $242.59M, establishing the deficit before tax effects. Pretax margin was -13.2%, reflecting a pre-tax loss equal to 13.2% of revenue. The reported income-tax provision was $8.21M, the amount recognized between pretax income and the final net-income result. The net loss equaled 34.5% of period-end equity, showing the deficit relative to book capital. The net loss equaled 12.7% of period-end assets, showing the deficit relative to the asset base.

Liquidity and Capital Structure

The company held $1.97B of assets against $1.24B of liabilities and $726.18M of equity, revealing how the asset base was financed. At period end, current assets of $573.77M compared with current liabilities of $281.55M, defining the company’s short-term resource position. Current assets covered current liabilities by 2.04x, leaving a positive buffer for near-term obligations. The company held $76.02M in cash and equivalents, a narrower liquidity measure than total current assets. The cash balance equaled 27.0% of current liabilities, showing how much near-term coverage came from cash alone. The liabilities-to-assets relationship was 63.1%, placing reported obligations against the full positive asset balance. Cash and equivalents equaled 3.9% of total assets, showing the liquid cash component within the company’s broader resource base. Compared with $2.32B in fiscal 2024, the current asset base moved 15.2% and finished lower. Against $1.01B of equity in fiscal 2024, the current book-equity balance moved 28.2% and ended lower. Compared with $97.74M in fiscal 2024, the current cash balance moved 22.2% and finished lower.

Cash Flow and Earnings Quality

The company reported $164.90M of operating cash flow, a cash inflow that shows the cash generated by operations. Capital spending was $62.64M, absorbing part of the cash generated from operations before free cash flow. Relative to operating cash flow, capital expenditures measured 38.0%, connecting investment intensity with the company’s cash-generation base. The combination of operating cash flow and capital spending produced $102.25M of positive free cash flow for the period. Free cash flow represented 5.6% of revenue, linking post-investment cash generation with the company’s operating scale. Measured against total assets, free cash flow represented 5.2%, showing the cash productivity of the company’s assets.

Based on the annual report for the fiscal year ending Oct 31, 2025. Analysis generated Oct 21, 2026.