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Food and Kindred Products: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 2000 · 10 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$2.0B
Operating cash flow$6.8B
Capex / cash flow29%
Capex / revenue2.9%
Top 3 share93%

Analysis

10 companies in Food and Kindred Products (SIC 2000) spent $2.0B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 29% of the $6.8B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — MDLZ, CAG, FLO — account for 93%.

Capital spending is 2.9% of the industry's $68.9B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (49%); about $245M is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($346M).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($2.4B), beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots and dual-purpose ranching and farming ($2.2B), dairy cattle and milk production ($1.7B).

Charts

Food and Kindred Products: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsFood and Kindred Products: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsMDLZ$1.3BCAG$400MFLO$115MVITL$89.7MBGS$24.9MBYND$9.9MBRBR$9.1MBOF$976KUCFI$268KLSF$42K
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Food and Kindred Products: what the capital spending buys (US part)Food and Kindred Products: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$360MEquipment$512MSoftware$98.5MOther$72.1M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Food and Kindred Products: the industries that build and sell what it buysFood and Kindred Products: the industries that build and sell what it buysManufacturing structures$346MOther industrial machinery manufa…$77.0MMaterial handling equipment manuf…$73.5MAir conditioning, refrigeration, …$68.0MSoftware publishers$53.5MOther general purpose machinery m…$52.3MMeasuring, dispensing, and other …$42.9MAir and gas compressor manufactur…$40.1MPlate work and fabricated structu…$26.4MComputer systems design services$22.2M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Food and Kindred Products: its first-tier supplying industriesFood and Kindred Products: its first-tier supplying industriesImports$2.4BBeef cattle ranching and farming,…$2.2BDairy cattle and milk production$1.7BGrocery and related product whole…$1.7BPoultry and egg production$1.3BOther nondurable goods merchant w…$1.3BAnimal (except poultry) slaughter…$1.3BTruck transportation$1.3BGrain farming$1.1BManagement of companies and enter…$949M
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Food and Kindred Products: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Food and Kindred Products: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$7.9BDividends−$3.8BCapital spending−$2.3BBuybacks−$1.6BOther financing (in)$1.5BCash added to the balance she…−$1.1BNet debt repaid−$1.1BNet borrowing$659MOther financing (out)−$469MCash drawn from the balance s…$356MOperating cash outflow−$189MOther investing (out)−$180MSales of assets & businesses$165MShares issued$96.8M
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
MDLZ Mondelez International$1.3B$5.0B27%TTM to Q3 2026
CAG Conagra Brands$400M$1.3B31%TTM to Q1 FY27
FLO Flowers Foods$115M$421M27%TTM to Q2 2026
VITL Vital Farms$89.7M−$48.7M—TTM to Q3 2026
BGS B&G Foods$24.9M$88.8M28%TTM to Q2 2026
BYND Beyond Meat$9.9M−$110M—TTM to Q2 2026
BRBR Bellring Brands$9.1M$234M4%TTM to Q3 FY26
BOF BranchOut Food$976K−$7.9M—TTM to Q2 2026
UCFI CN Healthy Food Tech Group$268K−$16.1M—TTM to Q3 2026
LSF Laird Superfood$42K−$1.1M—TTM to Q2 2026

Customers and suppliers named in annual reports

SupplierCustomerShare of supplier revenueEvidenceSource
CAGWMT29%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
CPBWMT22%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
FLOWMT22%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
VITLSHEL95%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
BGSWMT31%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
SMPLWMT30%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
SMPLAMZN20%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
HAINWMT13%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
VITLKR11%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing

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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.