Alert: Rating Downgrade (9/19/25)-Quanex Building Products Corp (NYSE: NX).

Stock Rating Downgrade

The Value Trend Rating for Quanex Building Products Corp (NYSE: NX) weakened in recent days from B to C reflecting eroding fundamentals and low Appreciation Potential. Details supporting this lower rating are included in our next report.

Recent Price Action

Quanex Building Products Corp (NYSE: NX) stock closed at $13.74 on 9/19/25 after a large decline of -5.6%. Moreover, trading volume in this decline was exceptionally high at 286% of normal. The stock has been weak relative to the market over the last nine months and has declined -9.5% during the last week.

Current PriceTarget Research Rating

Quanex Building Products has a current Value Trend Rating of C (High Neutral). With this rating, PTR’s two proprietary measures of a stock’s current attractiveness are providing very contradictory signals. Quanex Building Products has a very high Appreciation Score of 90 but a poor Power Rating of 29, producing the High Neutral Value Trend Rating.