Quanex Building Products Corp (NX)

Shareholders of Quanex Building Products Corp looking to boost their income beyond the stock's 0.8% annualized dividend yield can sell the December covered call at the $22.50 strike and collect the premium based on the $1.05 bid, which annualizes to an additional 8.6% rate of return against the current stock price (at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost), for a total of 9.4% annualized rate in the scenario where the stock is not called away. Any upside above $22.50 would be lost if the stock rises there and is called away, but NX shares would have to advance 10.8% from current levels for that to happen, meaning that in the scenario where the stock is called, the shareholder has earned a 16% return from this trading level, in addition to any dividends collected before the stock was called.

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 3/15/17, Quanex Building Products Corp will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.04, payable on 3/31/17. As a percentage of NX's recent stock price of $19.50, this dividend works out to approximately 0.21%.

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A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Quanex Building Products Corp is the #29 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity. To make that list, a stock must have repurchased at least 5% of its outstanding shares over the trailing twelve month period.

Investors in Quanex Building Products Corp saw new options become available today, for the February 2017 expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the NX options chain for the new February 2017 contracts and identified the following put contract of particular interest.

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A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Quanex Building Products Corp is the #36 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity. To make that list, a stock must have repurchased at least 5% of its outstanding shares over the trailing twelve month period.

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A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Quanex Building Products Corp is the #11 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity. To make that list, a stock must have repurchased at least 5% of its outstanding shares over the trailing twelve month period.

Trade-Ideas LLC identified Quanex Building Products (NX) as a strong and under the radar candidate

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