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Computer & office Equipment: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 3570 · 3 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$4.5B
Operating cash flow$27.2B
Capex / cash flow17%
Capex / revenue2.6%
Top 3 share100%

Analysis

3 companies in Computer & office Equipment (SIC 3570) spent $4.5B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 17% of the $27.2B their operations generated.

Capital spending is 2.6% of the industry's $170.9B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (38%); about $1.0B is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($766M).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($9.3B), other real estate ($7.6B), legal services ($7.5B).

Charts

Computer & office Equipment: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsComputer & office Equipment: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsHPE$2.5BIBM$1.2BHPQ$787M
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Computer & office Equipment: what the capital spending buys (US part)Computer & office Equipment: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$845MEquipment$1.3BSoftware$1.1BOther$254M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Computer & office Equipment: the industries that build and sell what it buysComputer & office Equipment: the industries that build and sell what it buysManufacturing structures$766MSoftware publishers$573MOther industrial machinery manufa…$284MComputer systems design services$237MCustom computer programming servi…$211MElectromedical and electrotherape…$114MOffice and commercial structures$78.7MSemiconductor machinery manufactu…$77.1MMaterial handling equipment manuf…$65.0MAir conditioning, refrigeration, …$59.5M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Computer & office Equipment: its first-tier supplying industriesComputer & office Equipment: its first-tier supplying industriesImports$9.3BOther real estate$7.6BLegal services$7.5BManagement of companies and enter…$4.7BArchitectural, engineering, and r…$3.9BManagement consulting services$3.9BEmployment services$3.3BProfessional and commercial equip…$1.8BAll other miscellaneous professio…$1.8BPrinted circuit assembly (electro…$1.6B
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Computer & office Equipment: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Computer & office Equipment: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$27.2BAcquisitions−$11.8BDividends−$8.2BCapital spending−$4.5BNet debt repaid−$3.5BOther investing (in)$3.2BCash added to the balance she…−$2.9BCash drawn from the balance s…$2.3BBuybacks−$1.8BTaxes paid on employees' shar…−$1.4BOther financing (out)−$1.1BNet borrowing$775MShares issued$737MSales of assets & businesses$599M
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
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise$2.5B$6.7B38%TTM to Q3 FY26
IBM International Business Machines$1.2B$15.8B7%TTM to Q3 2026
HPQ HP$787M$4.7B17%TTM to Q3 FY26

Customers and suppliers named in annual reports

SupplierCustomerShare of supplier revenueEvidenceSource
INGMHPQ19%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
INTCHPQ12%Stated in 10-K (XBRL)filing
HPQCNXN13%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
HPQSNX—Stated in 10-K (receivables)filing
HPQBBY—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
AMDHPQ—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
NVDAHPQ—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
STLYHPQ—Stated in 10-K (10% or more of revenue)filing
IBMDVLT—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
IBMDOCN—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
PLUSHPE—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.