Xometry (NASDAQ:XMTR) & DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) Head to Head Contrast

DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) and Xometry (NASDAQ:XMTR) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.

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%

Volatility and Risk

DXP Enterprises has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xometry has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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 company insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of Xometry shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for DXP Enterprises and Xometry, as reported 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 price target of $95.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.81%. Xometry has a consensus price target of $57.89, indicating a potential downside of 7.76%. Given Xometry’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Xometry is more favorable than DXP Enterprises.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares DXP Enterprises and Xometry”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DXP Enterprises	$1.80 billion	0.94	$70.49 million	$5.28	20.40
Xometry	$545.53 million	5.90	-$50.40 million	($1.25)	-50.21

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

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.