secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Quanex Building Products CORP (NX)
CIK:        0001423221
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-12-14T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001171843-23-007578
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Quanex reports fiscal Q4 adjusted EPS $0.95 vs $0.75 YoY; revenue down 3.9% to $295.5M
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- Q4 net sales $295.5M (-3.9% YoY); full-year net sales $1.13B (-7.4% YoY).
- Q4 adjusted EBITDA $50.8M (17.2% margin vs 12.6% a year ago); margin expanded in all segments.
- Repaid $40M in bank debt during Q4; leverage ratio dropped to 0.1x net debt / EBITDA.
- Full-year free cash flow $109.7M (record); cash provided by operations $147.1M.
- Management declines to provide FY2024 guidance, citing macroeconomic uncertainty; to revisit after Q1.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000117184323007578/0001171843-23-007578-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000117184323007578/f8k_121423.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-23-007578

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