Company: DXPE
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001020710-25-000087
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Company: DXP ENTERPRISES INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: DEF 14A
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 statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, available to our shareholders of record on or about May 9, 2025. If your shares of common stock are held in “street name,” your ability to vote over the Internet depends on your broker’s or intermediary's voting process. You should follow the instructions on your broker’s or intermediary’s voting instruction card. To vote the shares that you hold in “street name” in person at the Annual Meeting, you must bring a legal proxy from your broker, bank or other nominee.

#### Record Date
At the close of business on April 21, 2025 (the “Record Date”) there were outstanding and entitled to vote 15,694,140 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), 1,122 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $1.00 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), and 15,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock, par value $1.00 per share (the “Series B Preferred Stock”), and only the holders of record on the Record Date are entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting.

#### DXP ENTERPRISES, INC. 2025 PROXY STATEMENT18

#### Right to Vote
The holders of record of Common Stock on the Record Date will be entitled to one vote per share on each matter presented to such holders at the meeting. The holders of record of Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock on the Record Date will be entitled to one-tenth of one vote per share on each matter presented to such holders at the meeting voting together with the holders of Common Stock as a single class. No holders have cumulative voting rights. The presence at the meeting, in person or by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the aggregate outstanding shares of Common Stock, Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock is necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the meeting.

Shares of Common Stock, Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock voting together as a class, held by shareholders present in person or represented by proxy, including shares held by shareholders that abstain or do not vote with respect to one or more of the matters presented for shareholder approval, will be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the meeting.

If a broker does not have discretionary voting authority to vote shares for which it is the holder of record with respect to a particular matter at the meeting, the broker