MRC vs. DXPE, GIC, ALTG, ASTE, GRC, TRS, HY, SCSC, XMTR, and CMCO
Should you be buying MRC Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MRC Global include DXP Enterprises (DXPE), Global Industrial (GIC), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), Astec Industries (ASTE), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), TriMas (TRS), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), ScanSource (SCSC), Xometry (XMTR), and Columbus McKinnon (CMCO). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
MRC Global (NYSE:MRC) and DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
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.
MRC Global currently has a consensus price target of $15.33, suggesting a potential upside of 32.30%. DXP Enterprises has a consensus price target of $55.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.67%. Given MRC Global's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe MRC Global is more favorable than DXP Enterprises.
MRC Global has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DXP Enterprises has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MRC Global had 1 more articles in the media than DXP Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for MRC Global and 1 mentions for DXP Enterprises. DXP Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat MRC Global's score of -0.02 indicating that DXP Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
95.0% of MRC Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.9% of MRC Global shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.1% of DXP Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds 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.
Summary
MRC Global beats DXP Enterprises on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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