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Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 3663 · 15 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$509M
Operating cash flow$3.7B
Capex / cash flow14%
Capex / revenue0.8%
Top 3 share84%

Analysis

15 companies in Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment (SIC 3663) spent $509M on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 14% of the $3.7B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — MSI, PL, VISN — account for 84%.

Capital spending is 0.8% of the industry's $62.9B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (44%); about $657M is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($642M).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($4.9B), household appliances and electrical and electronic goods ($2.0B), printed circuit assembly (electronic assembly) manufacturing ($1.4B).

Charts

Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsRadio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsMSI$304MPL$93.0MVISN$30.2MUI$20.9MSATL$15.9MBKSY$15.0MONDS$10.9MHLIT$8.5MUMAC$7.0MVUZI$1.9MBKTI$1.3MWATT$318K
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: what the capital spending buys (US part)Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$681MEquipment$1.0BSoftware$494MOther$149M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: the industries that build and sell what it buysRadio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: the industries that build and sell what it buysManufacturing structures$642MSoftware publishers$247MOther industrial machinery manufa…$238MComputer systems design services$130MElectromedical and electrotherape…$94.9MCustom computer programming servi…$92.3MSemiconductor machinery manufactu…$64.5MMaterial handling equipment manuf…$54.6MAir conditioning, refrigeration, …$49.9MIndustrial process variable instr…$45.5M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: its first-tier supplying industriesRadio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: its first-tier supplying industriesImports$4.9BHousehold appliances and electric…$2.0BPrinted circuit assembly (electro…$1.4BElectricity and signal testing in…$927MLegal services$686MOther electronic component manufa…$530MBroadcast and wireless communicat…$527MOther real estate$485MManagement of companies and enter…$411MMachine shops$387M
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$15.3BSales of assets & businesses$12.4BBuybacks−$8.9BNet debt repaid−$7.4BOther financing (out)−$5.9BDividends−$4.8BOther investing (out)−$3.5BCash drawn from the balance s…$3.4BCapital spending−$3.0BShares issued$2.3BNet borrowing$1.8BCash added to the balance she…−$1.5BTaxes paid on employees' shar…−$1.3BOther financing (in)$1.2B
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
MSI Motorola Solutions$304M$2.8B11%TTM to Q3 2026
PL Planet Labs PBC$93.0M$118M79%TTM to Q2 FY27
VISN Vistance Networks$30.2M−$75.6M—TTM to Q3 2026
UI Ubiquiti$20.9M$1.0B2%TTM to Q1 FY27
SATL Satellogic$15.9M−$26.3M—TTM to Q2 2026
BKSY BlackSky Technology$15.0M−$11.6M—TTM to Q3 2026
ONDS Ondas$10.9M−$161M—TTM to Q2 2026
HLIT Harmonic$8.5M$36.2M23%TTM to Q3 2026
UMAC Unusual Machines$7.0M−$83.3M—TTM to Q3 2026
VUZI Vuzix$1.9M−$22.7M—TTM to Q2 2026
BKTI BK Technologies$1.3M$20.9M6%TTM to Q2 2026
WATT Energous$318K−$15.7M—TTM to Q2 2026
KUST Kustom Entertainment$222K−$6.0M—TTM to Q2 2026
AIRG Airgain$198K−$2.8M—TTM to Q2 2026
CRVW CareView Communications$35K$201K17%TTM to Q2 2026

Customers and suppliers named in annual reports

SupplierCustomerShare of supplier revenueEvidenceSource
MSIU.S. government8%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
VISNCMCSA35%Stated in 10-K (XBRL)filing
ARMQCOM9%Stated in 20-F (sentence)filing
BKTIU.S. government29%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
CMTLU.S. government9%Stated in 10-K (customer table)filing
MSFTBKSY—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
VISNCHTR—Stated in 10-K (10% or more of revenue)filing
VISNSNX—Stated in 10-K (10% or more of revenue)filing
AMZNBKSY—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
MSIBKTI—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
AAPLBKTI—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
GOOGLBKTI—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
AMKRQCOM—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
PLusgov—
BKSYusgov—

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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.