Soap, Detergents, Cleang Preparations, Perfumes, Cosmetics: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 2840 · 4 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Capital spending, 12 months$6.1B
Operating cash flow$24.3B
Capex / cash flow25%
Capex / revenue5.3%
Top 3 share98%
Analysis
4 companies in Soap, Detergents, Cleang Preparations, Perfumes, Cosmetics (SIC 2840) spent $6.1B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 25% of the $24.3B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — PG, ECL, CHD — account for 98%.
Capital spending is 5.3% of the industry's $114.1B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (45%); about $1.0B is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($1.7B).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($6.2B), management of companies and enterprises ($5.2B), soap and cleaning compound manufacturing ($5.0B).
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.