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Electrical Work: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 1731 · 4 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$1.8B
Operating cash flow$9.1B
Capex / cash flow19%
Capex / revenue2.4%
Top 3 share93%

Analysis

4 companies in Electrical Work (SIC 1731) spent $1.8B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 19% of the $9.1B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — PWR, FIX, IESC — account for 93%.

Capital spending is 2.4% of the industry's $73.7B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (77%); about $482M is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is construction machinery manufacturing ($399M).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($3.6B), building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers ($3.2B), other durable goods merchant wholesalers ($2.0B).

Charts

Electrical Work: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsElectrical Work: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsPWR$913MFIX$566MIESC$143MEME$129M
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Electrical Work: what the capital spending buys (US part)Electrical Work: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$133MEquipment$875MSoftware$74.2MOther$56.6M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Electrical Work: the industries that build and sell what it buysElectrical Work: the industries that build and sell what it buysConstruction machinery manufactur…$399MLight truck and utility vehicle m…$276MOffice and commercial structures$74.2MHeavy duty truck manufacturing$53.3MManufacturing structures$52.6MSoftware publishers$39.4MTruck trailer manufacturing$22.3MMotor vehicle body manufacturing$20.7MComputer systems design services$20.1MAll other miscellaneous manufactu…$15.3M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Electrical Work: its first-tier supplying industriesElectrical Work: its first-tier supplying industriesImports$3.6BBuilding material and garden equi…$3.2BOther durable goods merchant whol…$2.0BArchitectural, engineering, and r…$1.6BReady-mix concrete manufacturing$1.2BPlate work and fabricated structu…$1.1BOrnamental and architectural meta…$1.1BTruck transportation$1.0BPetroleum refineries$927MCommercial and industrial machine…$875M
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Electrical Work: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Electrical Work: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$9.1BAcquisitions−$3.9BCash added to the balance she…−$3.1BOther financing (in)$1.9BCapital spending−$1.8BBuybacks−$1.1BNet debt repaid−$766MOther investing (in)$257MDividends−$236MTaxes paid on employees' shar…−$231MOther investing (out)−$119MOther financing (out)−$94.2MCash drawn from the balance s…$31.2MExchange-rate gains on cash$17.6M
The companies’ cash-flow statements, latest four quarters or fiscal year: every figure filed (grade A).

Capital spending by company

CompanyCapital spendingOperating cash flowCapex / OCFPeriod
PWR Quanta Services$913M$4.1B22%TTM to Q3 2026
FIX Comfort Systems USA$566M$3.0B19%TTM to Q3 2026
IESC IES Holdings$143M$371M39%TTM to Q3 FY26
EME EMCOR Group$129M$1.6B8%TTM to Q3 2026

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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.