Head to Head Contrast: DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) versus THT Heat Transfer Technology (OTCMKTS:THTI)

DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) and THT Heat Transfer Technology (OTCMKTS:THTI) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for DXP Enterprises and THT Heat Transfer Technology, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DXP Enterprises	0	0	3	0	3.00
THT Heat Transfer Technology	0	0	0	0	0.00

DXP Enterprises presently has a consensus target price of $95.00, suggesting a potential downside of 16.75%. Given DXP Enterprises’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe DXP Enterprises is more favorable than THT Heat Transfer Technology.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares DXP Enterprises and THT Heat Transfer Technology”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DXP Enterprises	$1.96 billion	0.91	$70.49 million	$5.28	21.61
THT Heat Transfer Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

DXP Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than THT Heat Transfer Technology.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 22.7% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of THT Heat Transfer Technology shares are held by company 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.

Profitability

This table compares DXP Enterprises and THT Heat Transfer Technology’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%
THT Heat Transfer Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

DXP Enterprises beats THT Heat Transfer Technology on 9 of the 9 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 THT Heat Transfer Technology

THT Heat Transfer Technology, Inc. engages in the manufacture and trading of plate heat exchangers and related products. It offers plate heat exchangers, heat exchanger units, air-cooled heat exchangers, and shell-and-tube heat exchangers. The company was founded on August 7, 2006 and is headquartered in Siping, China.