U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Dow Jones index falling around 250 points on Friday.

Shares of Quanex Building Products Corp (NYSE:NX) rose sharply following upbeat quarterly earnings.

Quanex Building reported quarterly earnings of 79 cents per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of 66 cents per share. The company reported quarterly sales of $501.845 million which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $497.507 million.

Quanex Building Products shares jumped 16.6% to $21.90 on Friday.

Here are some other big stocks recording gains in today’s session.

• Reading International Inc (NASDAQ:RDIB) shares jumped 20.4% to $16.55.
• Concrete Pumping Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:BBCP) gained 17.1% to $10.60 after the Colorado-based industrial services provider posted stronger-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results and unveiled its first-ever dividend.
• Astera Labs Inc (NASDAQ:ALAB) surged 12.1% to $317.12.
• Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ:AEHR) gained 10.5% to $84.30.
• VersaBank (NASDAQ:VBNK) gained 10.4% to $22.73.
• mF International Limited (NASDAQ:MFI) jumped 7.8% to $9.83.
• KLA Corp (NASDAQ:KLAC) gained 7.4% to $185.80.
• Gold.com Inc (NYSE:GOLD) gained 7.3% to $44.65. Gold.com recently reported worse-than-expected quarterly financial results.
• TTM Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:TTMI) jumped 7.2% to $123.74.
• Cohu Inc (NASDAQ:COHU) gained 6.9% to $49.17.
• SanDisk Corp (NASDAQ:SNDK) rose 6.6% to $1,658.17 as technology stocks rallied and investors remained bullish on artificial intelligence-driven demand for memory infrastructure.
• Ichor Holdings, Ltd (NASDAQ:ICHR) gained 6.4% to $56.22.
• Attovia Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ATTO) rose 4.5% to $25.29.

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