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Agricultural Chemicals: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 2870 · 7 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$2.5B
Operating cash flow$4.1B
Capex / cash flow61%
Capex / revenue10.2%
Top 3 share96%

Analysis

7 companies in Agricultural Chemicals (SIC 2870) spent $2.5B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 61% of the $4.1B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — MOS, CF, SMG — account for 96%.

Capital spending is 10.2% of the industry's $24.5B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (44%); about $430M is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($715M).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: other basic organic chemical manufacturing ($2.6B), imports ($2.0B), other nondurable goods merchant wholesalers ($1.6B).

Charts

Agricultural Chemicals: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsAgricultural Chemicals: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsMOS$1.3BCF$1.0BSMG$106MUAN$88.1MAVD$5.2MCBUS$267KSNES$55K
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Agricultural Chemicals: what the capital spending buys (US part)Agricultural Chemicals: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$734MEquipment$919MSoftware$276MOther$151M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Agricultural Chemicals: the industries that build and sell what it buysAgricultural Chemicals: the industries that build and sell what it buysManufacturing structures$715MSoftware publishers$155MMaterial handling equipment manuf…$115MOther industrial machinery manufa…$113MAir conditioning, refrigeration, …$107MOther general purpose machinery m…$74.7MMeasuring, dispensing, and other …$67.3MAir and gas compressor manufactur…$62.9MPlate work and fabricated structu…$57.6MCustom computer programming servi…$56.5M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Agricultural Chemicals: its first-tier supplying industriesAgricultural Chemicals: its first-tier supplying industriesOther basic organic chemical manu…$2.6BImports$2.0BOther nondurable goods merchant w…$1.6BFertilizer manufacturing$1.5BPetroleum refineries$937MManagement of companies and enter…$694MOther nonmetallic mineral mining …$554MOther basic inorganic chemical ma…$550MNatural gas distribution$477MElectric power generation, transm…$399M
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Agricultural Chemicals: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Agricultural Chemicals: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$4.2BCapital spending−$2.5BCash added to the balance she…−$1.1BNet borrowing$1.0BBuybacks−$967MDividends−$759MOther financing (in)$610MNet debt repaid−$210MOther financing (out)−$153MSales of assets & businesses$109MOperating cash outflow−$94.5MOther investing (out)−$89.1MPaid to partners−$70.2MCash drawn from the balance s…$40.4M
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
MOS Mosaic$1.3B$500M262%TTM to Q3 2026
CF CF Industries Holdings$1.0B$3.1B33%TTM to Q3 2026
SMG Scotts Miracle-Gro$106M$369M29%TTM to Q3 FY26
UAN CVR Partners, LP$88.1M$237M37%TTM to Q3 2026
AVD American Vanguard$5.2M−$41.8M—TTM to Q2 2026
CBUS Cibus$267K−$46.1M—TTM to Q2 2026
SNES SenesTech$55K−$6.7M—TTM to Q2 2026

Customers and suppliers named in annual reports

SupplierCustomerShare of supplier revenueEvidenceSource
IEPUAN28%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
SMGLOW52%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
SMGHD34%Stated in 10-K (XBRL)filing
UANIEP—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
CVIUAN—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
DUKMOS—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)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.