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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 offering market competitive compensation programs, we place significant emphasis on pay for results where the primary goal is to motivate executive management to achieve the business and strategic objectives that drive shareholder value. Our executive compensation programs have been designed to achieve the following objectives:

• attract and retain talented and experienced executives by offering market competitive compensation;

• encourage teamwork and support a pay-for-results policy; and

• motivate key executives to achieve strategic business initiatives and to reward them for their achievements.

#### DXP ENTERPRISES, INC. 2025 PROXY STATEMENT34
In pursuit of these objectives, the Compensation Committee believes that the compensation packages provided to the NEOs should include both base salary and incentive compensation, with an emphasis on pay that is based on DXP’s performance.

#### Best Compensation Practices and Policies
| What We Do |     |                                                                                                    |     | What We Do Not Do |     |                                                                                                               |
| ü          |     | Heavy emphasis on variable compensation                                                            |     | û                 |     | No guaranteed salary increases or incentive guarantees                                                        |
| ü          |     | Balance of short-term and long-term compensation to discourage short-term thinking and risk taking |     | û                 |     | No employment contracts containing multi-year guarantees for salary increases, bonuses or equity compensation |
| ü          |     | Meaningful quantitative goals for performance-based annual and long-term compensation              |     | û                 |     | No discretionary incentives                                                                                   |
| ü          |     | Annual say-on-pay advisory vote                                                                    |     | û                 |     | We do not allow tax gross-ups                                                                                 |
| ü          |     | We seek independent advice through compensation consultants                                        |     | û                 |     | No overlapping performance metrics between short-term and long-term incentive programs                        |
| ü          |     | We have an ongoing shareholder outreach effort                                                     |     | û                 |     | No long-term incentive compensation is paid in cash                                                           |

#### Pay for Performance and Corporate Strategy
We have aligned our executive compensation programs with our long-term strategy. Actions taken to achieve the performance compensation measures are creating long-term value for our shareholders and other stakeholders.

Our Strategy: Grow Revenue, Leverage Scale, and Invest Capital

| GROW SALES:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 We plan to grow sales by remaining relevant to the business-to-business industrial customer as their preferences evolve through a combination of price, product, service and technology differentiation strategies. In 2024, sales were $1.8 billion, and we completed seven acquisitions