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Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 2844 · 12 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Analysis
12 companies in Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations (SIC 2844) spent $1.7B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 16% of the $10.3B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — CL, EL, KVUE — account for 84%.
Capital spending is 2.6% of the industry's $63.5B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (44%); about $287M is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($475M).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($3.9B), management of companies and enterprises ($3.4B), soap and cleaning compound manufacturing ($3.2B).
Charts
Capital spending by company
| Company | Capital spending | Operating cash flow | Capex / OCF | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Colgate Palmolive | $577M | $4.4B | 13% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| EL Estee Lauder Companies | $430M | $1.9B | 22% | TTM to Q1 FY27 |
| KVUE Kenvue | $393M | $2.7B | 14% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| COTY Coty | $181M | $603M | 30% | TTM to Q1 FY27 |
| EPC Edgewell Personal Care | $68.8M | $121M | 57% | TTM to Q3 FY26 |
| ELF e.l.f. Beauty | $12.5M | $288M | 4% | TTM to Q2 FY27 |
| IPAR Interparfums | $5.5M | $249M | 2% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| AXIL Axil Brands | $281K | $4.5M | 6% | TTM to Q1 FY27 |
| YCBD cbdMD | $191K | −$2.2M | — | TTM to Q3 FY26 |
| UG United Guardian | $67K | $3.5M | 2% | TTM to Q2 2026 |
| DQWS DSwiss | $39K | −$248K | — | TTM to Q2 2026 |
| KARX Karbon-X | $5K | −$6.4M | — | TTM to Q1 FY27 |
Customers and suppliers named in annual reports
| Supplier | Customer | Share of supplier revenue | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL | WMT | 11% | Stated in 10-K (sentence) | filing |
| EPC | WMT | 17% | Stated in 10-K (sentence) | filing |
| ELF | TGT | 18% | Stated in 10-K (customer table) | filing |
| ELF | WMT | 13% | Stated in 10-K (customer table) | filing |
| EPC | TGT | 9% | Stated in 10-K (sentence) | filing |
| ELF | ULTA | 12% | Stated in 10-K (customer table) | filing |
| ELF | AMZN | 11% | Stated in 10-K (XBRL) | filing |
| IPAR | M | 10% | 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.