---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001423221-24-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NX"
cik: "0001423221"
company_name: "Quanex Building Products CORP"
filed_at: "2024-03-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T05:24:20.635747+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Quanex shareholders elect seven directors and approve say-on-pay at annual meeting

## Summary
- All seven director nominees elected with 82-98% of votes cast in favor.
- Advisory say-on-pay proposal approved with 94.44% of votes cast in favor.
- Appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as independent auditor ratified with 99.17% of votes cast.
- 31.1M of 33.1M outstanding shares represented at the meeting (94% quorum).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001423221-24-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NX
- cik: 0001423221
- company_name: Quanex Building Products CORP
- filed_at: 2024-03-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000142322124000004/0001423221-24-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000142322124000004/nx-20240227.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Quanex Building Products CORP shareholders approved Ratification of the Audit Committee’s appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company’s independent auditor for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2024 at the 2024-02-27 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-02-27
  source text: Ratified the Audit Committee’s appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company’s independent auditor for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000142322124000004/0001423221-24-000004-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Quanex Building Products CORP shareholders approved Advisory Vote to Approve Named Executive Officer Compensation at the 2024-02-27 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-02-27
  source text: Advisory Vote to Approve Named Executive Officer Compensation 28,799,694.277 1,694,200.106 37,735.331 587,180 94.44%
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000142322124000004/0001423221-24-000004-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Quanex Building Products CORP shareholders approved Election of seven directors for terms expiring at the 2025 Annual Meeting at the 2024-02-27 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-02-27
  source text: at the Annual Meeting, seven directors were elected for terms expiring at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting, with the following tabulation of votes for each nominee:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000142322124000004/0001423221-24-000004-index.htm

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