General Industrial Machinery & Equipment: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 3560 · 7 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Capital spending, 12 months$699M
Operating cash flow$6.5B
Capex / cash flow11%
Capex / revenue1.9%
Top 3 share86%
Analysis
7 companies in General Industrial Machinery & Equipment (SIC 3560) spent $699M on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 11% of the $6.5B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — ITW, IR, ZBRA — account for 86%.
Capital spending is 1.9% of the industry's $37.0B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (47%); about $135M is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($201M).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($3.4B), management of companies and enterprises ($1.2B), iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing ($865M).
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.