Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Products: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 3490 · 4 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Capital spending, 12 months$631M
Operating cash flow$5.2B
Capex / cash flow12%
Capex / revenue2.0%
Top 3 share95%
Analysis
4 companies in Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Products (SIC 3490) spent $631M on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 12% of the $5.2B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — PH, WTS, MWA — account for 95%.
Capital spending is 2.0% of the industry's $32.2B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (53%); about $145M is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($186M).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($2.6B), iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing ($1.1B), motor vehicle seating and interior trim manufacturing ($792M).
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.