Miscellaneous Chemical Products: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 2890 · 5 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Capital spending, 12 months$363M
Operating cash flow$602M
Capex / cash flow60%
Capex / revenue3.5%
Top 3 share97%
Analysis
5 companies in Miscellaneous Chemical Products (SIC 2890) spent $363M on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 60% of the $602M their operations generated; the three largest spenders — CBT, OEC, ASPI — account for 97%.
Capital spending is 3.5% of the industry's $10.3B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (45%); about $68.1M is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($112M).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($537M), other nondurable goods merchant wholesalers ($381M), other basic organic chemical manufacturing ($374M).
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.