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Cutlery, Handtools & General Hardware: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 3420 · 8 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Analysis
8 companies in Cutlery, Handtools & General Hardware (SIC 3420) spent $528M on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 13% of the $4.0B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — SWK, SNA, SSD — account for 82%.
Capital spending is 2.0% of the industry's $25.9B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (55%); about $80.2M is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($102M).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($1.8B), iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing ($650M), other durable goods merchant wholesalers ($611M).
Charts
Capital spending by company
| Company | Capital spending | Operating cash flow | Capex / OCF | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWK Stanley Black & Decker | $270M | $2.0B | 14% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| SNA Snap-on | $82.5M | $1.2B | 7% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| SSD Simpson Manufacturing | $81.4M | $577M | 14% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| HLMN Hillman Solutions | $66.1M | $169M | 39% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| ACU Acme United | $10.6M | $26.1M | 41% | TTM to Q2 2026 |
| LCUT Lifetime Brands | $9.8M | $60.5M | 16% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| EML Eastern | $3.9M | $19.0M | 20% | TTM to Q2 2026 |
| CIX Compx International | $3.7M | $27.3M | 13% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
Customers and suppliers named in annual reports
| Supplier | Customer | Share of supplier revenue | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWK | HD | 15% | Stated in 10-K (sentence) | filing |
| SWK | LOW | 14% | Stated in 10-K (sentence) | filing |
| HLMN | HD | 22% | Stated in 10-K (sentence) | filing |
| HLMN | LOW | 21% | Stated in 10-K (sentence) | filing |
| LCUT | WMT | 17% | Stated in 10-K (sentence) | filing |
| LCUT | AMZN | 12% | Stated in 10-K (sentence) | filing |
| LCUT | COST | 11% | Stated in 10-K (sentence) | filing |
| LCUT | TJX | 11% | 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.