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Cable & Other Pay Television Services: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 4841 · 11 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Analysis
11 companies in Cable & Other Pay Television Services (SIC 4841) spent $29.4B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 52% of the $56.6B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — CHTR, CMCSA, LBTYA — account for 88%.
Capital spending is 12.0% of the industry's $243.9B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (46%); about $12.9B is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is software publishers ($2.6B).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: motion picture and video industries ($23.6B), employment services ($13.2B), wired telecommunications carriers ($12.5B).
Charts
Capital spending by company
| Company | Capital spending | Operating cash flow | Capex / OCF | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHTR Charter Communications | $12.1B | $16.0B | 75% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| CMCSA Comcast | $12.1B | $31.7B | 38% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| LBTYA Liberty Global | $1.6B | $1.6B | 102% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| OPTU Optimum Communications | $1.3B | $959M | 131% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| WBD Warner Bros. Discovery | $1.2B | $3.4B | 36% | TTM to Q2 2026 |
| LILA Liberty Latin America | $503M | $906M | 55% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| CABO Cable One | $294M | $477M | 62% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| GLIBA Liberty Capital | $281M | $311M | 90% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| AMCX AMC Global Media | $28.2M | $219M | 13% | TTM to Q2 2026 |
| ROKU Roku | $9.4M | $811M | 1% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
| ADEA Adeia | $2.7M | $178M | 2% | TTM to Q3 2026 |
Customers and suppliers named in annual reports
| Supplier | Customer | Share of supplier revenue | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DY | CHTR | 14% | Stated in 10-K (customer table) | filing |
| VSNT | CMCSA | 11% | Stated in 10-K (XBRL) | filing |
| VISN | CMCSA | 35% | Stated in 10-K (XBRL) | filing |
| DY | CMCSA | 7% | Stated in 10-K (customer table) | filing |
| UEIC | CMCSA | 12% | Stated in 10-K (customer table) | filing |
| CMCSA | SCSC | — | Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated) | filing |
| VISN | CHTR | — | Stated in 10-K (10% or more of revenue) | filing |
| ROKU | AMZN | — | Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated) | filing |
| ROKU | BBY | — | Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated) | filing |
| ROKU | WMT | — | Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated) | filing |
| ROKU | TGT | — | 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.