Quanex Building Products (NX) Competitors

Quanex Building Products (NYSE:NX) and Griffon (NYSE:GFF) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking and institutional ownership.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of NX or GFF?

97.5% of Quanex Building Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of Griffon shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Quanex Building Products shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.1% of Griffon shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more volatility and risk, NX or GFF?

Quanex Building Products has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Griffon has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has better valuation and earnings, NX or GFF?

Quanex Building Products has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Griffon. Quanex Building Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Griffon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Quanex Building Products	$1.13B	0.96	$82.50M	$2.63	12.53
Griffon	$2.69B	1.25	$77.62M	$3.79	17.82

Is NX or GFF more profitable?

Quanex Building Products has a net margin of 7.84% compared to Griffon's net margin of 7.48%. Griffon's return on equity of 90.02% beat Quanex Building Products' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Quanex Building Products	7.84%	17.11%	10.94%
Griffon	7.48%	90.02%	10.45%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in NX or GFF?

Quanex Building Products received 83 more outperform votes than Griffon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.47% of users gave Quanex Building Products an outperform vote while only 64.99% of users gave Griffon an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Quanex Building Products	Outperform Votes 328 65.47%	Underperform Votes 173 34.53%
Griffon	Outperform Votes 245 64.99%	Underperform Votes 132 35.01%

Does the media prefer NX or GFF?

In the previous week, Griffon had 3 more articles in the media than Quanex Building Products. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Griffon and 2 mentions for Quanex Building Products. Griffon's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Quanex Building Products' score of 0.25 indicating that Griffon is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Quanex Building Products	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Griffon	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts rate NX or GFF?

Quanex Building Products presently has a consensus target price of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.29%. Griffon has a consensus target price of $81.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.93%. Given Griffon's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Griffon is more favorable than Quanex Building Products.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Quanex Building Products	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Griffon	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.33

Is NX or GFF a better dividend stock?

Quanex Building Products pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Griffon pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Quanex Building Products pays out 12.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Griffon pays out 15.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Quanex Building Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Griffon beats Quanex Building Products on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.