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$73.81 +5.07 (+7.38%)
Closing price 06/23/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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BXC vs. DXPE, MRC, WLFC, TITN, ACET, GWW, FAST, URI, WSO, and AIT

Should you be buying BlueLinx stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlueLinx include DXP Enterprises (DXPE), MRC Global (MRC), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), Titan Machinery (TITN), Adicet Bio (ACET), W.W. Grainger (GWW), Fastenal (FAST), United Rentals (URI), Watsco (WSO), and Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT). These companies are all part of the "trading companies & distributors" industry.

BlueLinx vs. Its Competitors

DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) and BlueLinx (NYSE:BXC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.

DXP Enterprises received 62 more outperform votes than BlueLinx when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.24% of users gave DXP Enterprises an outperform vote while only 56.79% of users gave BlueLinx an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
DXP EnterprisesOutperform Votes
267
61.24%
Underperform Votes
169
38.76%
BlueLinxOutperform Votes
205
56.79%
Underperform Votes
156
43.21%

74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of BlueLinx shares are held by institutional investors. 22.4% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of BlueLinx shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

DXP Enterprises presently has a consensus price target of $95.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.35%. BlueLinx has a consensus price target of $110.00, suggesting a potential upside of 49.03%. Given BlueLinx's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BlueLinx is more favorable than DXP Enterprises.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
DXP Enterprises
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
BlueLinx
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

DXP Enterprises has a net margin of 4.27% compared to BlueLinx's net margin of 1.31%. DXP Enterprises' return on equity of 20.41% beat BlueLinx's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
DXP Enterprises4.27% 20.41% 6.55%
BlueLinx 1.31%4.90%1.98%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
DXP Enterprises$1.80B0.73$70.49M$4.8117.42
BlueLinx$2.94B0.20$53.12M$4.4816.48

DXP Enterprises has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlueLinx has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, DXP Enterprises had 6 more articles in the media than BlueLinx. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for DXP Enterprises and 2 mentions for BlueLinx. DXP Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat BlueLinx's score of 0.74 indicating that DXP Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
DXP Enterprises
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
BlueLinx
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

DXP Enterprises beats BlueLinx on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BXC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BXC vs. The Competition

MetricBlueLinxBLDG PRD IndustryConstruction SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$551.45M$9.47B$8.87B$19.82B
Dividend YieldN/A2.31%2.07%3.80%
P/E Ratio16.4826.7915.9527.15
Price / Sales0.201.90106.0732.78
Price / Cash6.7612.9214.4017.51
Price / Book0.962.434.484.45
Net Income$53.12M$298.49M$613.72M$986.05M
7 Day Performance12.72%0.79%2.01%0.48%
1 Month Performance12.03%2.67%3.65%3.69%
1 Year Performance-21.78%-11.77%96.73%9.86%

BlueLinx Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BXC
BlueLinx
3.4484 of 5 stars
$73.81
+7.4%
$110.00
+49.0%
-23.3%$551.45M$2.94B16.482,000
DXPE
DXP Enterprises
3.9143 of 5 stars
$78.09
+1.9%
$95.00
+21.7%
+72.7%$1.23B$1.87B20.132,490Positive News
MRC
MRC Global
2.5989 of 5 stars
$12.85
+0.9%
$15.00
+16.7%
+5.8%$1.11B$2.95B14.772,800
WLFC
Willis Lease Finance
2.9562 of 5 stars
$143.96
+1.1%
N/A+136.1%$1.10B$607.87M10.20240Positive News
High Trading Volume
TITN
Titan Machinery
3.8273 of 5 stars
$19.73
+2.1%
$21.00
+6.4%
+17.0%$455.47M$2.67B14.722,290Analyst Upgrade
ACET
Adicet Bio
1.909 of 5 stars
$0.72
-4.6%
$7.50
+947.5%
-54.0%$59.22M$24.99M-0.4290
GWW
W.W. Grainger
3.7561 of 5 stars
$1,070.56
+0.6%
$1,123.13
+4.9%
+13.5%$51.12B$17.24B27.6626,000Positive News
FAST
Fastenal
4.0739 of 5 stars
$42.24
+0.2%
$40.40
-4.4%
+26.4%$48.46B$7.61B21.0222,400
URI
United Rentals
4.6014 of 5 stars
$688.08
-1.0%
$753.64
+9.5%
+11.8%$44.72B$15.58B17.7624,600Positive News
WSO
Watsco
3.8843 of 5 stars
$429.73
-0.5%
$486.67
+13.2%
-8.9%$17.50B$7.58B32.437,280Positive News
AIT
Applied Industrial Technologies
4.5773 of 5 stars
$229.75
+1.8%
$285.00
+24.0%
+23.0%$8.75B$4.50B23.286,100Positive News
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This page (NYSE:BXC) was last updated on 6/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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