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Laboratory Analytical Instruments: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 3826 · 20 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$1.3B
Operating cash flow$5.9B
Capex / cash flow21%
Capex / revenue3.3%
Top 3 share53%

Analysis

20 companies in Laboratory Analytical Instruments (SIC 3826) spent $1.3B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 21% of the $5.9B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — A, ILMN, WAT — account for 53%.

Capital spending is 3.3% of the industry's $38.8B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (44%); about $207M is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($202M).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($2.3B), household appliances and electrical and electronic goods ($918M), printed circuit assembly (electronic assembly) manufacturing ($819M).

Charts

Laboratory Analytical Instruments: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsLaboratory Analytical Instruments: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsA$342MILMN$173MWAT$151MAVTR$146MBIO$139MMTD$114MBRKR$97.1MRVTY$69.5MCTKB$6.9MPACB$6.4MTXG$5.9MEYPT$4.0M
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Laboratory Analytical Instruments: what the capital spending buys (US part)Laboratory Analytical Instruments: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$214MEquipment$326MSoftware$155MOther$47.0M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Laboratory Analytical Instruments: the industries that build and sell what it buysLaboratory Analytical Instruments: the industries that build and sell what it buysManufacturing structures$202MSoftware publishers$77.9MOther industrial machinery manufa…$74.9MComputer systems design services$40.8MElectromedical and electrotherape…$30.0MCustom computer programming servi…$29.1MSemiconductor machinery manufactu…$20.3MMaterial handling equipment manuf…$17.2MAir conditioning, refrigeration, …$15.7MIndustrial process variable instr…$14.3M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Laboratory Analytical Instruments: its first-tier supplying industriesLaboratory Analytical Instruments: its first-tier supplying industriesImports$2.3BHousehold appliances and electric…$918MPrinted circuit assembly (electro…$819MManagement of companies and enter…$525MElectricity and signal testing in…$480MAll other chemical product and pr…$394MOther plastics product manufactur…$290MMachine shops$261MTurned product and screw, nut, an…$253MCopper rolling, drawing, extrudin…$224M
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Laboratory Analytical Instruments: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Laboratory Analytical Instruments: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$6.5BBuybacks−$2.2BAcquisitions−$1.6BOther financing (out)−$1.5BNet borrowing$1.3BCapital spending−$1.3BCash added to the balance she…−$1.1BOther investing (in)$911MNet debt repaid−$743MOperating cash outflow−$618MShares issued$430MDividends−$348MCash drawn from the balance s…$322MOther investing (out)−$264M
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
A Agilent Technologies$342M$1.6B21%TTM to Q3 FY26
ILMN Illumina$173M$1.2B14%TTM to Q3 2026
WAT Waters$151M$550M27%TTM to Q2 2026
AVTR Avantor$146M$585M25%TTM to Q3 2026
BIO Bio-Rad Laboratories$139M$468M30%TTM to Q3 2026
MTD Mettler Toledo International$114M$984M12%TTM to Q3 2026
BRKR Bruker$97.1M$342M28%TTM to Q3 2026
RVTY Revvity$69.5M$628M11%TTM to Q2 2026
CTKB Cytek Biosciences$6.9M−$6.6M—TTM to Q3 2026
PACB Pacific Biosciences of California$6.4M−$137M—TTM to Q3 2026
TXG 10x Genomics$5.9M$99.7M6%TTM to Q3 2026
EYPT EyePoint$4.0M−$267M—TTM to Q2 2026
NAUT Nautilus Biotechnology$2.7M−$52.5M—TTM to Q3 2026
HBIO Harvard Bioscience$1.8M$651K272%TTM to Q2 2026
MASS 908 Devices$876K$1.5M59%TTM to Q2 2026
SEER Seer$854K−$43.4M—TTM to Q2 2026
QTRX Quanterix$762K−$80.9M—TTM to Q2 2026
LCTC Lifeloc Technologies$463K−$372K—TTM to Q2 2026
RPID Rapid Micro Biosystems$336K−$40.1M—TTM to Q2 2026
PRPO Precipio$311K$1.1M28%TTM to Q2 2026

Customers and suppliers named in annual reports

SupplierCustomerShare of supplier revenueEvidenceSource
EYPTANIP40%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
PRPOMedicare & Medicaid40%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
ILMNTEM—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
ILMNNTRA—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
ILMNWGS—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
ILMNGH—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
ILMNFLGT—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
ILMNGRAL—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
ILMNCAI—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
AVTRESTA—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
BIOIMDX—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.