Growth Metrics

Quanex Building Products (NX) Return on Sales (2016 - 2026)

Quanex Building Products (NX) has disclosed Return on Sales for 16 consecutive years, with 0.2% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales fell 18.0% to 0.2% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Oct 2025 was 0.2%, a 22.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2024 number at 0.03%, down 5.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 0.2% for Q4 2025 at Quanex Building Products, up from 0.56% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.11% in Q4 2023 to a low of 0.56% in Q3 2025.
  • A 5-year average of 0.01% and a median of 0.05% in 2021 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: grew 3bps in 2021, then plummeted -62bps in 2025.
  • Quanex Building Products' Return on Sales stood at 0.07% in 2021, then grew by 12bps to 0.08% in 2022, then surged by 42bps to 0.11% in 2023, then plummeted by -120bps to 0.02% in 2024, then crashed by -784bps to 0.2% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NX's Return on Sales are 0.2% (Q4 2025), 0.56% (Q3 2025), and 0.05% (Q2 2025).