DXPE vs. MRC, GIC, ALTG, PRLB, XMTR, ERII, ASTE, GRC, CECO, and KRNT
Should you be buying DXP Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DXP Enterprises include MRC Global (MRC), Global Industrial (GIC), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), Proto Labs (PRLB), Xometry (XMTR), Energy Recovery (ERII), Astec Industries (ASTE), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), CECO Environmental (CECO), and Kornit Digital (KRNT). 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 superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
DXP Enterprises has a net margin of 3.75% compared to MRC Global's net margin of 2.97%. MRC Global's return on equity of 23.60% beat DXP Enterprises' return on equity.
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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
DXP Enterprises has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MRC Global has a beta of 2.01, indicating that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MRC Global has higher revenue and earnings than DXP Enterprises. DXP Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MRC Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MRC Global had 5 more articles in the media than DXP Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for MRC Global and 4 mentions for DXP Enterprises. DXP Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat MRC Global's score of 0.08 indicating that DXP Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MRC Global received 143 more outperform votes than DXP Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.59% of users gave MRC Global an outperform vote while only 61.41% of users gave DXP Enterprises an outperform vote.
DXP Enterprises currently has a consensus price target of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.61%. MRC Global has a consensus price target of $15.67, indicating a potential upside of 16.22%. Given MRC Global's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MRC Global is more favorable than DXP Enterprises.
Summary
MRC Global beats DXP Enterprises on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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