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Retail-Grocery Stores: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 5411 · 9 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$9.8B
Operating cash flow$16.9B
Capex / cash flow58%
Capex / revenue10.7%
Top 3 share91%

Analysis

9 companies in Retail-Grocery Stores (SIC 5411) spent $9.8B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 58% of the $16.9B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — KR, Publix Super Markets, ACI — account for 91%.

Capital spending is 10.7% of the industry's $92.1B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (41%); about $656M is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is office and commercial structures ($986M).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: other real estate ($8.7B), electric power generation, transmission, and distribution ($3.1B), warehousing and storage ($2.2B).

Charts

Retail-Grocery Stores: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsRetail-Grocery Stores: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsKR$4.3BPublix Super Markets$2.9BACI$1.8BSFM$356MGO$173MWMK$162MIMKTA$99.5MNGVC$48.0MHOST$335K
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Retail-Grocery Stores: what the capital spending buys (US part)Retail-Grocery Stores: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$1.0BEquipment$1.3BSoftware$642MOther$177M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Retail-Grocery Stores: the industries that build and sell what it buysRetail-Grocery Stores: the industries that build and sell what it buysOffice and commercial structures$986MSoftware publishers$322MMaterial handling equipment manuf…$178MOther commercial and service indu…$175MComputer systems design services$171MAir conditioning, refrigeration, …$165MOffice furniture and custom archi…$143MOther general purpose machinery m…$136MCustom computer programming servi…$120MMeasuring, dispensing, and other …$104M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Retail-Grocery Stores: its first-tier supplying industriesRetail-Grocery Stores: its first-tier supplying industriesOther real estate$8.7BElectric power generation, transm…$3.1BWarehousing and storage$2.2BManagement of companies and enter…$1.8BImports$1.4BTruck transportation$736MAdvertising, public relations, an…$675MInternet publishing and broadcast…$660MNondepository credit intermediati…$611MAccounting, tax preparation, book…$611M
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Retail-Grocery Stores: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Retail-Grocery Stores: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$8.0BCapital spending−$3.8BBuybacks−$2.4BDividends−$1.5BOther investing (out)−$802MCash drawn from the balance s…$448MShares issued$290MCash added to the balance she…−$234MNet debt repaid−$76.7MNet borrowing$50.0MSales of assets & businesses$41.5MOther financing (out)−$27.0MOther investing (in)$15.2MOperating cash outflow−$2.4M
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
KR Kroger$4.3B$6.7B64%TTM to Q2 FY27
Publix Super Markets$2.9B$6.5B45%TTM to Q3 2026
ACI Albertsons Companies$1.8B$2.3B78%TTM to Q2 FY27
SFM Sprouts Farmers Market$356M$694M51%TTM to Q3 2026
GO Grocery Outlet Holding$173M$185M93%TTM to Q2 2026
WMK Weis Markets$162M$239M68%TTM to Q3 2026
IMKTA Ingles Markets$99.5M$249M40%TTM to Q3 FY26
NGVC Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage$48.0M$70.7M68%TTM to Q3 FY26
HOST Host Digital$335K−$2.4M—TTM to Q2 2026

Customers and suppliers named in annual reports

SupplierCustomerShare of supplier revenueEvidenceSource
COKEKR36%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
VITLKR11%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
UNFINGVC69%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
UNFISFM3%Stated in 10-K (sentence)filing
SITCKR—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.