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Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 2731 · 2 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$103M
Operating cash flow$328M
Capex / cash flow31%
Capex / revenue3.2%
Top 3 share100%

Analysis

2 companies in Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing (SIC 2731) spent $103M on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 31% of the $328M their operations generated.

Capital spending is 3.2% of the industry's $3.2B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to software (62%); about $23.2M is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is software publishers ($24.8M).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: sound recording industries ($165M), printing ($111M), imports ($106M).

Charts

Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsBooks: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsSCHL$52.5MWLY$50.4M
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: what the capital spending buys (US part)Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$8.7MEquipment$13.9MSoftware$49.3MOther$7.9M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: the industries that build and sell what it buysBooks: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: the industries that build and sell what it buysSoftware publishers$24.8MComputer systems design services$12.8MCustom computer programming servi…$9.3MOffice and commercial structures$4.4MOther nonresidential structures$4.1MOffice furniture and custom archi…$3.0MOther communications equipment ma…$1.9MData processing, hosting, and rel…$1.7MOther commercial and service indu…$1.5MBroadcast and wireless communicat…$1.4M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: its first-tier supplying industriesBooks: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: its first-tier supplying industriesSound recording industries$165MPrinting$111MImports$106MAll other miscellaneous professio…$101MOther real estate$96.9MCustom computer programming servi…$85.7MManagement of companies and enter…$77.1MComputer systems design services$73.0MSupport activities for printing$68.3MEmployment services$65.6M
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Net borrowing$458MOther investing (in)$456MAcquisitions−$451MBuybacks−$393MOperating cash flow$328MOther financing (out)−$147MCapital spending−$103MDividends−$92.1MCash added to the balance she…−$37.1MOther investing (out)−$35.2MShares issued$25.7MTaxes paid on employees' shar…−$9.5MExchange-rate losses on cash−$1.1M
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
SCHL Scholastic$52.5M$38.1M138%TTM to Q1 FY27
WLY John Wiley & Sons$50.4M$290M17%TTM to Q1 FY27

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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.