DXP Enterprises (DXPE) and The Competition Head-To-Head Survey

DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) is one of 69 publicly-traded companies in the “MACH – GENL INDL” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare DXP Enterprises to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for DXP Enterprises and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DXP Enterprises	0	0	1	0	3.00
DXP Enterprises Competitors	339	2460	3120	125	2.50

DXP Enterprises currently has a consensus price target of $95.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.63%. As a group, “MACH – GENL INDL” companies have a potential upside of 10.43%. Given DXP Enterprises’ peers higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe DXP Enterprises has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Volatility and Risk

DXP Enterprises has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DXP Enterprises’ peers have a beta of 11.39, meaning that their average stock price is 1,039% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares DXP Enterprises and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
DXP Enterprises	$1.80 billion	$70.49 million	20.71
DXP Enterprises Competitors	$4.73 billion	$501.44 million	17.45

DXP Enterprises’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than DXP Enterprises. DXP Enterprises is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares DXP Enterprises and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DXP Enterprises	4.27%	20.41%	6.55%
DXP Enterprises Competitors	8.57%	12.67%	7.07%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.4% of shares of all “MACH – GENL INDL” companies are held by institutional investors. 22.4% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of shares of all “MACH – GENL INDL” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

DXP Enterprises peers beat DXP Enterprises on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

DXP Enterprises Company Profile

DXP Enterprises, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in distributing maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) products, equipment, and services in the United States and Canada. It operates through three segments: Service Centers (SC), Supply Chain Services (SCS), and Innovative Pumping Solutions (IPS). The SC segment offers MRO products, equipment, and integrated services, including technical expertise and logistics services. It offers a range of MRO products in the rotating equipment, bearing, power transmission, hose, fluid power, metal working, fastener, industrial supply, safety products, and safety services categories. This segment serves customers in the oil and gas, food and beverage, petrochemical, transportation, other general industrial, mining, construction, chemical, municipal, agriculture, and pulp and paper industries. The SCS segment manages procurement and inventory vinventory optimization and management, storeroom management, transaction consolidation and control, vendor oversight and procurement cost optimization, productivity improvement, and customized reporting services. Its programs include SmartAgreement, a procurement solution for various MRO categories; SmartBuy, an on-site or centralized MRO procurement solution; SmartSource, an on-site procurement and storeroom management solution; SmartStore, an e-Catalog solution; SmartVend, an industrial dispensing solution; and SmartServ, an integrated service pump solution. The IPS segment fabricates and assembles custom-made pump packages; remanufactures pumps; and manufactures branded private label pumps. DXP Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1908 and is based in Houston, Texas.