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Retail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 5211 · 5 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$6.5B
Operating cash flow$29.1B
Capex / cash flow22%
Capex / revenue2.3%
Top 3 share96%

Analysis

5 companies in Retail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers (SIC 5211) spent $6.5B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 22% of the $29.1B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — HD, LOW, FND — account for 96%.

Capital spending is 2.3% of the industry's $278.8B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (37%); about $1.3B is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is office and commercial structures ($1.3B).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: other real estate ($16.7B), electric power generation, transmission, and distribution ($3.5B), lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets ($3.4B).

Charts

Retail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsRetail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsHD$3.7BLOW$2.3BFND$267MBLDR$246MJCTC$22K
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Retail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: what the capital spending buys (US part)Retail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$1.7BEquipment$1.9BSoftware$1.2BOther$327M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Retail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: the industries that build and sell what it buysRetail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: the industries that build and sell what it buysOffice and commercial structures$1.3BSoftware publishers$753MOffice furniture and custom archi…$385MManufacturing structures$285MComputer systems design services$254MOther commercial and service indu…$192MLight truck and utility vehicle m…$175MCustom computer programming servi…$161MAll other miscellaneous manufactu…$139MOther general purpose machinery m…$116M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Retail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: its first-tier supplying industriesRetail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: its first-tier supplying industriesOther real estate$16.7BElectric power generation, transm…$3.5BLessors of nonfinancial intangibl…$3.4BImports$2.4BAdvertising, public relations, an…$2.0BEmployment services$2.0BWarehousing and storage$1.9BInternet publishing and broadcast…$1.8BMonetary authorities and deposito…$1.5BNondepository credit intermediati…$1.5B
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Retail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Retail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$29.1BAcquisitions−$15.6BDividends−$11.9BOther financing (in)$9.0BNet debt repaid−$7.0BCapital spending−$6.5BCash drawn from the balance s…$2.6BBuybacks−$768MShares issued$504MOther investing (in)$368MCash added to the balance she…−$188MNet borrowing$187MSales of assets & businesses$91.6MExchange-rate gains on cash$36.0M
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
HD Home Depot$3.7B$18.8B20%TTM to Q2 FY27
LOW Lowe's Companies$2.3B$9.3B24%TTM to Q2 FY27
FND Floor & Decor Holdings$267M$609M44%TTM to Q3 2026
BLDR Builders FirstSource$246M$497M49%TTM to Q3 2026
JCTC Jewett Cameron Trading$22K$975K2%TTM to Q3 FY26

Customers and suppliers named in annual reports

SupplierCustomerShare of supplier revenueEvidenceSource
WHRLOW15%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
SWKHD15%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
SWKLOW14%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
SMGLOW52%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
SMGHD34%Stated in 10-K (XBRL)filing
UFPILOW17%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
FBINLOW16%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
UFPIHD11%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
MBCLOW20%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
JELDHD17%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
CENTHD16%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
FBINHD11%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
JELDLOW13%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
MBCHD13%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
HLMNHD22%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
HLMNLOW21%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
GFFHD12%Stated in 10-K (XBRL)filing
PINELOW10%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
CENTLOW—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
LOWWHR—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
SPBHD—Stated in 10-K (10% or more of revenue)filing
SPBLOW—Stated in 10-K (10% or more of revenue)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.