SEC annual filings · the largest capital spenders
Which SEC filers paid the most for property and equipment in 2017?
In 2017, AT&T Inc. paid $20.6 billion for property, plant and equipment, the most of the 4,687 SEC filers in the sum (the newest fiscal year end among the rows is ).
Right now
AT&T Inc. paid $20.6 billion for property, plant and equipment in 2017, the most of the 4,687 SEC filers in the sum.
Together the filers paid $801.9 billion. AT&T Inc. is 2.6% of it.
What is counted
Capital spending here is what a company paid for buildings, equipment and similar assets in its fiscal year, as its cash flow statement reports it, in US dollars.
It leaves out finance leases and similar additions that pay no cash, which many published figures include, and every forecast or plan: only what a filing reports as paid.
The companies file no line for artificial intelligence. These pages show all of their capital spending, whatever it was for, and make no claim about how much of it was for any one purpose. The pages give no reason for a rise or a fall: a reason is told only where a filing says it, and none is quoted here.
As filed
Facts as filed with the SEC, and our arithmetic on them. Not investment advice.
Each company's figure is for its own fiscal year, placed in the calendar year the fiscal year ends in, so the figures of the four companies do not end on the same day: the table gives the day each one ends. A year ending in the first week of January is placed in the year before.
Some large spenders report it in a way these pages do not read, so they can be missing. A parent and a subsidiary that both file are both counted unless the subsidiary is on a reviewed list, so a subsidiary not on it is counted again inside its parent's figure. A company is counted once when two filing numbers give the same figure for the same period under the same name apart from its legal form (Inc, Corp, plc).
2017 is not final: some filers have not filed that year yet and some have stopped filing, and a year is shown only when it holds at least four fifths as many filers as the year before. The newest fiscal year end among the rows is .
Understanding the ranking
Where it stands today
AT&T Inc. paid $20.6 billion, the most in 2017.
How is the ranking made?
The ranking lists the filers by the cash they paid for property, plant and equipment in the fiscal years placed in 2017, the largest first.
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It is the same sum as the one on the capital spending page, after the same checks, taken company by company.
The numbers behind the chart
Which filers paid the most for property and equipment?25 filers
| Company | Paid | Share of the sum | Rank | Fiscal year end |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T Inc. | $20.6B | 2.6% | 1 | |
| Verizon Communications Inc | $17.2B | 2.2% | 2 | |
| Exxon Mobil Corp | $15.4B | 1.9% | 3 | |
| Chevron Corp | $13.4B | 1.7% | 4 | |
| Alphabet Inc. | $13.2B | 1.6% | 5 | |
| Apple Inc. | $12.5B | 1.6% | 6 | |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | $12.0B | 1.5% | 7 | |
| Intel Corp | $11.8B | 1.5% | 8 | |
| Berkshire Hathaway Inc | $11.7B | 1.5% | 9 | |
| Walmart Inc. | $10.6B | 1.3% | 10 | |
| Comcast Corp | $9.55B | 1.2% | 11 | |
| Charter Communications, Inc. | $8.68B | 1.1% | 12 | |
| General Motors Co | $8.45B | 1.1% | 13 | |
| Energy Transfer LP | $8.44B | 1.1% | 14 | |
| Energy Transfer Operating, L.P. | $8.44B | 1.1% | 14 | |
| Microsoft Corp | $8.13B | 1.0% | 16 | |
| Duke Energy Corp | $8.05B | 1.0% | 17 | |
| Exelon Corp | $7.58B | 0.9% | 18 | |
| Southern Co | $7.42B | 0.9% | 19 | |
| Ford Motor Co | $7.05B | 0.9% | 20 | |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. | $6.73B | 0.8% | 21 | |
| General Electric Co | $6.64B | 0.8% | 22 | |
| American Airlines Group Inc. | $5.97B | 0.7% | 23 | |
| PG&E Corp | $5.64B | 0.7% | 24 | |
| Dominion Energy, Inc | $5.50B | 0.7% | 25 |
The table scrolls sideways; the first column stays in place.
Which filers paid the most in other years?10 rankings
What does the ranking leave out, and where is it from?Limits and source
What this number cannot tell you
- Only values above zero are ranked, the largest first; equal values share a rank. The sum of 2017 holds 4,687 SEC filers that give a value in US dollars, foreign filers that report in US dollars included.
- A name that is a link is a company of the set that has had revenue of 100 million dollars or more in the SEC data we read, and has a page here. Any other name is text: the filer is outside that set.
- Capital spending here is the cash a company paid for property, plant and equipment in its fiscal year, the line of its cash flow statement that the SEC data labels payments to acquire property, plant and equipment, in US dollars as the company filed it.
- It leaves out finance leases and similar additions that pay no cash, which many published figures include, and every forecast or plan: only what a filing reports as paid.
- The companies file no line for artificial intelligence. These pages show all of their capital spending, whatever it was for, and make no claim about how much of it was for any one purpose.
- The SEC data holds this figure under two labels. A company is read under the label for property, plant and equipment, and in a year in which it has none under that label, under the label for productive assets (Amazon files its line under that one). The two are never added.
- A company that files this figure under a label we do not read is not counted, so some large spenders are missing.
- A parent and a subsidiary that both file are both counted unless the subsidiary is on a reviewed list, so a subsidiary not on it is counted again inside its parent's figure. A company is counted once when two filing numbers give the same figure for the same period under the same name apart from its legal form (Inc, Corp, plc).
- A reviewed list of 72 trusts and funds whose shares trade like stocks is left out. A reviewed list of 31 filers whose capital spending is part of another filer's is left out of the years in which that filer has a value.
- Each company's figure is for its own fiscal year, placed in the calendar year the fiscal year ends in, so the figures of the four companies do not end on the same day: the table gives the day each one ends. A year ending in the first week of January is placed in the year before. The fiscal year end shown can be any day from 8 January 2017 to 7 January 2018. A company's own page can name a year otherwise: a year shown here under one name can carry another name on its company page, and its capital spending there is read under the property label alone.
- 2017 is not final: some filers have not filed that year yet and some have stopped filing, and a year is shown only when it holds at least four fifths as many filers as the year before.
- The number of filers differs from year to year (see the Filers column), so the sum of all filers can move because of the filers counted as well as the amounts.
Observed .
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