Services-Testing Laboratories: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 8734 · 2 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Capital spending, 12 months$290M
Operating cash flow$742M
Capex / cash flow39%
Capex / revenue7.3%
Top 3 share100%
Analysis
2 companies in Services-Testing Laboratories (SIC 8734) spent $290M on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 39% of the $742M their operations generated.
Capital spending is 7.3% of the industry's $4.0B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to software (37%); about $43.5M is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($45.9M).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: architectural, engineering, and related services ($155M), other real estate ($114M), imports ($99.5M).
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.