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Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 3711 · 11 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$37.7B
Operating cash flow$55.4B
Capex / cash flow68%
Capex / revenue7.1%
Top 3 share91%

Analysis

11 companies in Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies (SIC 3711) spent $37.7B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 68% of the $55.4B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — TSLA, F, GM — account for 91%.

Capital spending is 7.1% of the industry's $528.0B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (53%); about $7.2B is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($9.2B).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($76.5B), motor vehicle metal stamping ($51.4B), motor vehicle seating and interior trim manufacturing ($36.6B).

Charts

Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsMotor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsTSLA$15.4BF$9.8BGM$9.0BRIVN$1.6BLCID$1.0BPCAR$619MOSK$160MFSS$37.7MFFAI$4.3MWKHS$603K
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: what the capital spending buys (US part)Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$9.4BEquipment$14.7BSoftware$2.0BOther$1.9B
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: the industries that build and sell what it buysMotor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: the industries that build and sell what it buysManufacturing structures$9.2BMachine tool manufacturing$2.4BCutting and machine tool accessor…$1.6BSpecial tool, die, jig, and fixtu…$1.6BMaterial handling equipment manuf…$1.3BAir conditioning, refrigeration, …$1.2BSoftware publishers$1.1BOther commercial and service indu…$921MOther general purpose machinery m…$894MMeasuring, dispensing, and other …$754M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: its first-tier supplying industriesMotor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: its first-tier supplying industriesImports$76.5BMotor vehicle metal stamping$51.4BMotor vehicle seating and interio…$36.6BMotor vehicle and motor vehicle p…$36.4BMotor vehicle transmission and po…$24.0BMotor vehicle gasoline engine and…$23.3BOther motor vehicle parts manufac…$12.0BMotor vehicle steering, suspensio…$8.3BOther engine equipment manufactur…$8.0BMotor vehicle body manufacturing$6.9B
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$62.3BCapital spending−$37.7BOther investing (out)−$14.7BBuybacks−$8.5BCash drawn from the balance s…$7.2BOperating cash outflow−$6.9BNet debt repaid−$5.5BDividends−$5.2BOther financing (in)$3.8BShares issued$3.7BOther investing (in)$2.3BNet borrowing$1.4BCash added to the balance she…−$1.2BOther financing (out)−$749M
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
TSLA Tesla$15.4B$18.7B82%TTM to Q3 2026
F Ford Motor$9.8B$15.0B66%TTM to Q3 2026
GM General Motors$9.0B$23.4B39%TTM to Q3 2026
RIVN Rivian Automotive$1.6B−$2.6B—TTM to Q3 2026
LCID Lucid Group$1.0B−$4.1B—TTM to Q2 2026
PCAR Paccar$619M$3.7B17%TTM to Q3 2026
OSK Oshkosh$160M$1.1B14%TTM to Q3 2026
FSS Federal Signal$37.7M$403M9%TTM to Q3 2026
FFAI Faraday Future Intelligent Electric$4.3M−$120M—TTM to Q2 2026
WKHS Workhorse Group$603K−$54.4M—TTM to Q2 2026
FLYE Fly-E Group−$65K−$8.8M—TTM to Q1 FY27

Customers and suppliers named in annual reports

SupplierCustomerShare of supplier revenueEvidenceSource
LEAGM22%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
CMIPCAR13%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
LEAF12%Stated in 10-K (customer table)filing
DCHGM44%Stated in 10-K (XBRL)filing
DANF—Stated in 10-K (10% or more of revenue)filing
RIVNJPM36%Stated in 10-K (XBRL)filing
BWAF12%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
ADNTF11%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
OSKU.S. government20%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
VCF26%Stated in 10-K (customer table)filing
DCHF15%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
CPSF27%Stated in 10-K (customer table)filing
CPSGM19%Stated in 10-K (customer table)filing
VCGM12%Stated in 10-K (customer table)filing
GTXF11%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
ULHGM25%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
ALSNPCAR11%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
ULHF20%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
GNTXGM10%Stated in 10-K (XBRL)filing
FOXFF12%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
THRMGM11%Stated in 10-K (name in text, share from XBRL)filing
ASPNGM59%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
STRTGM27%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
SRIF18%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
STRTF21%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
PAMTGM14%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
MECPCAR10%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
PAMTF9%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
VENUF94%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
LVOTSLA7%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
FRUSHA—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
FFord Motor Credit Co LLC—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
FWGO—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
FMCHB—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
FAN—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
NDAQFLYE—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
AMZNRIVN—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
TSLALVO—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
GMCSPI59%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
GMASPN—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.