DXP Enterprises, Inc. (DXPE)
Industrial distribution, pump packages, corporate staff. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 51 of the 275 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
35%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
41%
Employees, annual report
3,286
Leading staffing pattern
Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now35%
- End of 202740%
- End of 202841%
- End of 203042%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 57%
- Becomes checking a model's work 32%
- Handed over with lighter checks 10%
An industrial distributor whose filing counts 1,945 in service centers, 465 in supply chain services, 541 building pump packages and 335 corporate, all by count.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 35% now, 40% at the end of 2027, 41% at the end of 2028, 42% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 42% desk work, 20% people work and 38% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 57% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 32% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
3,286 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Stated in the filing's table: 3,038 employees in the United States, 224 in Canada and 24 in Mexico, the U.A.E., India and Saudi Arabia, of 3,286.
The filing: “We employed 3,286 people as of December 31, 2025.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers | 74% | Counts (a): the Service Centers segment had 1,945 employees, all full-time, distributing pumps, bearings, safety and other MRO products, and Supply Chain Services 465 managing customers' storerooms and procurement, 2,410 of 3,286. |
| Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only) | 16% | Count (a): the Innovative Pumping Solutions segment had 541 employees building custom pump skid packages, remanufacturing pumps and making private label pumps. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 10% | Count (a): 335 corporate employees in the filing's table, a stated corporate count under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 3,286 employees: Service Centers 1,945, Innovative Pumping Solutions 541, Supply Chain Services 465, Corporate 335; none of the U.S. employees in a union, some abroad in unions or works councils.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Genuine Parts Company (GPC, 65,000 employees)29% now, 33% by 2028
- W.W. Grainger, Inc. (GWW, 25,000 employees)34% now, 39% by 2028
- Fastenal Company (FAST, 24,489 employees)33% now, 38% by 2028
- MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (MSM, 7,284 employees)34% now, 39% by 2028
- Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. (AIT, 6,900 employees)34% now, 39% by 2028
- Dnow Inc. (DNOW, 5,300 employees)34% now, 39% by 2028
- Titan Machinery Inc. (TITN, 3,359 employees)34% now, 39% by 2028
- Alta Equipment Group Inc. (ALTG, 2,750 employees)33% now, 38% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. No sentence names artificial intelligence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 3,286 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 3,028 | 2025-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 2,837 | 2024-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 2,675 | 2023-04-17 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 2,490 | 2022-04-05 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 2,550 | 2021-03-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 2,747 | 2020-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 2,740 | 2019-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 1,463 | 2018-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 1,431 | 2017-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 1,982 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2015-03-16 | 2,460 | 2015-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2014-03-11 | 2,483 | 2014-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2013-03-06 | 2,113 | 2013-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2012-03-09 | 1,295 | 2012-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 1,127 | 2011-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2010-03-23 | 1,687 | 2010-03-23 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 1,874 | 2009-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 1,594 | 2008-03-17 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 753 | 2007-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 519 | 2006-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 438 | 2005-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 442 | 2004-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 501 | 2003-03-24 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 495 | 2002-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 532 | 2001-04-17 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 599 | 2000-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 706 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 652 | 1998-02-26 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 459 | 1997-03-31 | 10-K405 |
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-012382, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of DXP Enterprises, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 35% now and 41% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce DXP Enterprises, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does DXP Enterprises, Inc. employ?
- 3,286 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 92% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up DXP Enterprises, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers; by those patterns the work is about 42% desk work, 20% people work and 38% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does DXP Enterprises, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 8, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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