DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) versus Boise Cascade (NYSE:BCC) Head to Head Survey

DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) and Boise Cascade (NYSE:BCC) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares DXP Enterprises and Boise Cascade”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DXP Enterprises	$2.02 billion	1.47	$88.68 million	$5.68	33.64
Boise Cascade	$6.40 billion	0.42	$132.84 million	$2.95	26.42

Boise Cascade has higher revenue and earnings than DXP Enterprises. Boise Cascade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DXP Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares DXP Enterprises and Boise Cascade’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DXP Enterprises	4.35%	18.51%	5.70%
Boise Cascade	1.64%	5.41%	3.34%

Risk and Volatility

DXP Enterprises has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boise Cascade has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for DXP Enterprises and Boise Cascade, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DXP Enterprises	0	2	2	0	2.50
Boise Cascade	1	3	3	0	2.29

DXP Enterprises presently has a consensus price target of $187.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.14%. Boise Cascade has a consensus price target of $93.60, indicating a potential upside of 20.11%. Given Boise Cascade’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Boise Cascade is more favorable than DXP Enterprises.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Boise Cascade shares are held by institutional investors. 22.0% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Boise Cascade shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

DXP Enterprises beats Boise Cascade on 8 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 Boise Cascade

Boise Cascade Company engages in manufacture of wood products and distribution of building materials in the United States and Canada. It operates through two segments, Wood Products and Building Materials Distribution. The Wood Products segment manufactures laminated veneer lumber and laminated beams used in headers and beams; I-joists for residential and commercial flooring and roofing systems, and other structural applications; structural, appearance, and industrial plywood panels; and ponderosa pine shop lumber and appearance grade boards. The Building Materials Distribution segment distributes a line of building materials, including oriented strand boards, plywood, and lumber; general line items, such as siding, composite decking, doors, metal products, insulation, and roofing; and engineered wood products. It markets and sells its products to dealers, home improvement centers, wholesalers, specialty distributors, and industrial converters for use in the construction of new residential housing, repair-and-remodeling of existing housing, construction of light industrial and commercial buildings, and other industrial applications. Boise Cascade Company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.