---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-247054"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DXPE"
cik: "0001020710"
company_name: "DXP ENTERPRISES INC"
filed_at: "2021-08-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T09:45:46.820401+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Q2 sales $285.5M (+16.2% sequential), GAAP EPS $0.40; aged payables error to cut liabilities $8-12M, 10-Q delayed

## Summary
- Sales $285.5 million, up 16.2% sequentially; GAAP diluted EPS $0.40.
- Free cash flow $6.8 million; cash and equivalents $79.3 million.
- Closed acquisition of Carter & Verplanck.
- Identified $8-$12 million in invalid aged purchase orders; will reduce trade payables and increase retained earnings.
- Form 10-Q for Q2 2021 delayed; expects filing by September 15, 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-247054
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DXPE
- cik: 0001020710
- company_name: DXP ENTERPRISES INC
- filed_at: 2021-08-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020710/000119312521247054/0001193125-21-247054-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020710/000119312521247054/d219188d8k.htm

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