Patent Owners & Lessors: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 6794 · 5 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Capital spending, 12 months$98.8M
Operating cash flow$526M
Capex / cash flow19%
Capex / revenue3.2%
Top 3 share99%
Analysis
5 companies in Patent Owners & Lessors (SIC 6794) spent $98.8M on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 19% of the $526M their operations generated; the three largest spenders — DLB, APPS, ACTG — account for 99%.
Capital spending is 3.2% of the industry's $3.1B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (83%); about $14.5M is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is light truck and utility vehicle manufacturing ($8.0M).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: business support services ($198M), nondepository credit intermediation and related activities ($140M), monetary authorities and depository credit intermediation ($129M).
Charts
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.The companies’ cash-flow statements, latest four quarters or fiscal year: every figure filed (grade A).
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.