DXPE vs. MRC, ALTG, GIC, CECO, XMTR, PRLB, MYE, ERII, KRNT, and TWI
Should you be buying DXP Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DXP Enterprises include MRC Global (MRC), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), Global Industrial (GIC), CECO Environmental (CECO), Xometry (XMTR), Proto Labs (PRLB), Myers Industries (MYE), Energy Recovery (ERII), Kornit Digital (KRNT), and Titan International (TWI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) and MRC Global (NYSE:MRC) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.
DXP Enterprises has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MRC Global has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DXP Enterprises currently has a consensus price target of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.38%. MRC Global has a consensus price target of $15.33, indicating a potential upside of 34.86%. Given MRC Global's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe MRC Global is more favorable than DXP Enterprises.
MRC Global has higher revenue and earnings than DXP Enterprises. MRC Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DXP Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of MRC Global shares are held by institutional investors. 22.1% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.9% of MRC Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MRC Global received 142 more outperform votes than DXP Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.48% of users gave MRC Global an outperform vote while only 61.32% of users gave DXP Enterprises an outperform vote.
DXP Enterprises has a net margin of 4.10% compared to MRC Global's net margin of 3.34%. MRC Global's return on equity of 26.92% beat DXP Enterprises' return on equity.
In the previous week, MRC Global had 2 more articles in the media than DXP Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MRC Global and 1 mentions for DXP Enterprises. MRC Global's average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat DXP Enterprises' score of 0.03 indicating that MRC Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
MRC Global beats DXP Enterprises on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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