Titan Machinery (TITN) Competitors

DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) and Titan Machinery (NASDAQ:TITN) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, DXPE or TITN?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DXP Enterprises	$1.68B	0.84	$68.81M	$3.88	23.17
Titan Machinery	$2.76B	0.15	$112.44M	$1.34	13.54

Is DXPE or TITN more profitable?

DXP Enterprises has a net margin of 3.75% compared to Titan Machinery's net margin of 1.10%. DXP Enterprises' return on equity of 18.74% beat Titan Machinery's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DXP Enterprises	3.75%	18.74%	6.05%
Titan Machinery	1.10%	5.91%	1.86%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer DXPE or TITN?

Titan Machinery received 14 more outperform votes than DXP Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.36% of users gave DXP Enterprises an outperform vote while only 55.20% of users gave Titan Machinery an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
DXP Enterprises	Outperform Votes 262 61.36%	Underperform Votes 165 38.64%
Titan Machinery	Outperform Votes 276 55.20%	Underperform Votes 224 44.80%

Do analysts prefer DXPE or TITN?

DXP Enterprises presently has a consensus target price of $75.00, indicating a potential downside of 16.58%. Titan Machinery has a consensus target price of $19.20, indicating a potential upside of 5.84%. Given Titan Machinery's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Titan Machinery 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
Titan Machinery	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.57

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in DXPE or TITN?

74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.4% of Titan Machinery shares are held by institutional investors. 22.4% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.3% of Titan Machinery shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Does the media favor DXPE or TITN?

In the previous week, DXP Enterprises had 3 more articles in the media than Titan Machinery. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for DXP Enterprises and 1 mentions for Titan Machinery. Titan Machinery's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat DXP Enterprises' score of 0.67 indicating that Titan Machinery is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

Which has more risk & volatility, DXPE or TITN?

DXP Enterprises has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Titan Machinery has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

DXP Enterprises beats Titan Machinery on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.