MRC vs. DXPE, GIC, ALTG, HY, TRS, GRC, SCSC, CECO, PRLB, and XMTR
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), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), TriMas (TRS), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), ScanSource (SCSC), CECO Environmental (CECO), Proto Labs (PRLB), and Xometry (XMTR). 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 superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
95.0% of MRC Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 20.9% of MRC Global shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.1% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MRC Global presently has a consensus target price of $15.67, indicating a potential upside of 14.61%. DXP Enterprises has a consensus target price of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.75%. 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 2.01, indicating that its stock price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DXP Enterprises has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MRC Global had 7 more articles in the media than DXP Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for MRC Global and 12 mentions for DXP Enterprises. MRC Global's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat DXP Enterprises' score of 0.41 indicating that MRC Global 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.
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.
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 24.03% beat DXP Enterprises' return on equity.
Summary
MRC Global beats DXP Enterprises on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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