SIC 1000 · 6 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Capital spending, 12 months$3.0B
Operating cash flow$7.2B
Capex / cash flow42%
Capex / revenue4.7%
Top 3 share95%
Analysis
6 companies in Metal Mining (SIC 1000) spent $3.0B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 42% of the $7.2B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — SCCO, CLF, MP — account for 95%.
Capital spending is 4.7% of the industry's $64.1B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to structures (64%); about $535M is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is other nonresidential structures ($2.8B).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: iron, gold, silver, and other metal ore mining ($6.4B), imports ($2.6B), electric power generation, transmission, and distribution ($2.4B).
Charts
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.The companies’ cash-flow statements, latest four quarters or fiscal year: every figure filed (grade A).
Evidence grades: A filed figure · B computed from filed figures · C industry average (BEA input-output and fixed-asset tables) applied to filed figures. Estimates are not the companies’ own records. Not investment advice.