DXPE vs. ALTG, SYX, HEES, MRC, BXC, WLFC, TITN, ACET, MSM, and GWW
Should you be buying DXP Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DXP Enterprises include Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), Systemax (SYX), H&E Equipment Services (HEES), MRC Global (MRC), BlueLinx (BXC), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), Titan Machinery (TITN), Adicet Bio (ACET), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), and W.W. Grainger (GWW).
DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) and Alta Equipment Group (NYSE:ALTG) 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 media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
DXP Enterprises has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alta Equipment Group has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Alta Equipment Group shares are held by institutional investors. 22.1% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of Alta Equipment Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
DXP Enterprises has a net margin of 3.75% compared to Alta Equipment Group's net margin of -0.21%. DXP Enterprises' return on equity of 17.93% beat Alta Equipment Group's return on equity.
DXP Enterprises received 238 more outperform votes than Alta Equipment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.41% of users gave DXP Enterprises an outperform vote while only 60.53% of users gave Alta Equipment Group an outperform vote.
DXP Enterprises presently has a consensus price target of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.98%. Alta Equipment Group has a consensus price target of $20.50, indicating a potential upside of 142.60%. Given Alta Equipment Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alta Equipment Group is more favorable than DXP Enterprises.
DXP Enterprises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alta Equipment Group. Alta Equipment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DXP Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, DXP Enterprises had 1 more articles in the media than Alta Equipment Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for DXP Enterprises and 4 mentions for Alta Equipment Group. Alta Equipment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat DXP Enterprises' score of 0.74 indicating that Alta Equipment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
DXP Enterprises beats Alta Equipment Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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