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Commercial Printing: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 2750 · 3 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$158M
Operating cash flow$468M
Capex / cash flow34%
Capex / revenue2.3%
Top 3 share100%

Analysis

3 companies in Commercial Printing (SIC 2750) spent $158M on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 34% of the $468M their operations generated.

Capital spending is 2.3% of the industry's $6.8B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (41%); about $33.1M is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($34.8M).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($472M), paper bag and coated and treated paper manufacturing ($229M), paper mills ($226M).

Charts

Commercial Printing: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsCommercial Printing: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsCMPR$96.7MQUAD$46.3MPMTS$15.5M
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Commercial Printing: what the capital spending buys (US part)Commercial Printing: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$35.8MEquipment$51.9MSoftware$29.6MOther$8.1M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Commercial Printing: the industries that build and sell what it buysCommercial Printing: the industries that build and sell what it buysManufacturing structures$34.8MOther industrial machinery manufa…$18.8MSoftware publishers$15.0MComputer systems design services$7.7MCustom computer programming servi…$5.6MSemiconductor machinery manufactu…$5.1MMaterial handling equipment manuf…$3.5MAir conditioning, refrigeration, …$3.2MOther general purpose machinery m…$2.8MMachine tool manufacturing$2.2M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Commercial Printing: its first-tier supplying industriesCommercial Printing: its first-tier supplying industriesImports$472MPaper bag and coated and treated …$229MPaper mills$226MOther nondurable goods merchant w…$165MPrinting ink manufacturing$160MOther real estate$147MPaperboard container manufacturing$132MPlastics packaging materials and …$114MEmployment services$107MElectric power generation, transm…$96.9M
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Commercial Printing: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Commercial Printing: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$468MAcquisitions−$174MCapital spending−$158MNet debt repaid−$98.6MCash drawn from the balance s…$81.2MOther investing (out)−$70.0MBuybacks−$56.0MSales of assets & businesses$48.6MNet borrowing$40.0MTaxes paid on employees' shar…−$33.0MPaid to partners−$24.8MDividends−$18.4MOther financing (in)$17.6MCash added to the balance she…−$16.6M
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
CMPR Cimpress$96.7M$288M34%TTM to Q1 FY27
QUAD Quad/Graphics$46.3M$83.5M55%TTM to Q3 2026
PMTS CPI Card Group$15.5M$96.8M16%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.