DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE – Get Free Report) and Xometry (NASDAQ:XMTR – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares DXP Enterprises and Xometry”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| DXP Enterprises | $1.80 billion | 0.99 | $70.49 million | $5.28 | 21.61 |
| Xometry | $545.53 million | 5.91 | -$50.40 million | ($1.25) | -50.31 |
Profitability
This table compares DXP Enterprises and Xometry’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| DXP Enterprises | 4.45% | 19.62% | 6.40% |
| Xometry | -9.80% | -6.59% | -2.80% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for DXP Enterprises and Xometry, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| DXP Enterprises | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Xometry | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2.40 |
DXP Enterprises currently has a consensus target price of $95.00, indicating a potential downside of 16.75%. Xometry has a consensus target price of $57.89, indicating a potential downside of 7.95%. Given Xometry’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Xometry is more favorable than DXP Enterprises.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Xometry shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.7% of DXP Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of Xometry shares are owned by 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.
Risk & Volatility
DXP Enterprises has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xometry has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
DXP Enterprises beats Xometry on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About DXP Enterprises
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.
About Xometry
Xometry, Inc. operates an online marketplace that enables buyers to source custom-manufactured parts and assemblies in the United States and internationally. It provides computer numerical control manufacturing, sheet metal forming, and sheet cutting; 3D printing, including fused deposition modeling, direct metal laser sintering, PolyJet, stereolithography, selective laser sintering, binder jetting, carbon digital light synthesis, multi jet fusion, and lubricant sublayer photo-curing; and die casting, stamping, injection molding, urethane casting, tube cutting, and tube bending, as well as finishing services, rapid prototyping, and high-volume production services. It serves aerospace, healthcare, robotics, industrial, defense, energy, automotive, government, education, and consumer goods industries. The company was formerly known as NextLine Manufacturing Corp. and changed its name to Xometry, Inc. in June 2015. Xometry, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland.
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