GENUINE PARTS CO vs QXO, Inc., two Distribution stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Genuine Parts is a decades-old auto-and-industrial-parts distributor and dividend aristocrat yielding 3.55%; QXO is a brand-new building-products rollup losing money as it acquires scale. Genuine Parts earns 20.79% on equity at a 3.78% margin and trades at 17.2 times earnings; QXO earns a negative 5.07% and trades at no clean multiple, 1.30 times book against Genuine Parts's 3.56. The pair could hardly be more different in maturity: Genuine Parts pays a steadily rising dividend from an established distribution network, QXO reinvests everything into acquisitions with no profit yet, one a widows-and-orphans income stock, the other a speculative buildout betting on a distribution empire to come.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | GPC | QXO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $116.01 | $17.80 |
| Market cap | $16.0B | $13.3B |
| Sector | Distribution | Distribution |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -1.0% | — |
| P/E | 17.2 | — |
| P/B | 3.56 | 1.30 |
| P/S | 0.65 | 1.55 |
| EV/EBITDA | 37.3 | — |
| Revenue growth | +4.8% | +200.0% |
| Gross margin | 37.3% | 23.7% |
| Operating margin | — | -14.6% |
| Net margin | 3.8% | -6.0% |
| Return on equity | 20.8% | -5.1% |
| Return on assets | 4.5% | -3.1% |
| Return on invested capital | — | -2.7% |
| FCF yield | 3.4% | 1.5% |
| Dividend yield | 3.5% | — |
| Debt / equity | 1.03 | 0.30 |
| Current ratio | 1.09 | 3.33 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 7.54 | 1.96 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 3 / 9 |
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