How do you interpret operating segments — payments to acquire productive assets?

An increase suggests active investment in growth or infrastructure, while a decrease may signal a focus on cash preservation or reduced capital needs.

How does operating segments — payments to acquire productive assets compare across companies?

Comparable to segment-level capital expenditures reported by industrial and manufacturing firms.

Applied Industrial Technologies AIT Operating Segments — Payments to Acquire Productive Assets

Discontinued — last reported Q1 '21

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IROperating Segments — Payments To Acquire Productive Assets

$6.68M-64.1%

ATIOperating Segments — Payments To Acquire Productive Assets

$30.68M-39.3%

BWAOperating Segments — Payments To Acquire Productive Assets

$118.25M-11.1%

FLSOperating Segments — Payments To Acquire Productive Assets

$10.22M-25.8%

SCIOperating Segments — Payments To Acquire Productive Assets

$59.99M+1.9%

BROperating Segments — Payments To Acquire Productive Assets

$11.2M-3.7%

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$1.3B+7.3%

Gross profit$380.8M+7.2%

Operating income$137.9M+6.6%

Net income$99.8M0.0%

EPS (diluted)$2.65+3.1%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$171.6M-51.4%

Total debt$365.3M-36.2%

Total equity$1.9B+1.8%

Total assets$3.0B-4.1%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$100.1M-18.2%

CapEx$4.7M-37.3%

Free cash flow$95.4M-17.0%

Valuation

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Market cap$12.49B+14.4%

Enterprise value$12.68B+13.8%

P/E30.9×+2.9×

P/S2.6×+0.2×

Profitability

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Gross margin30.4%+0.1pp

Operating margin10.9%-0.3pp

Net margin8.3%-0.3pp

FCF margin9.1%-0.7pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity21.9%-0.3pp

Debt / equity0.2×-0.1×

Current ratio2.9×-0.6×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by Applied Industrial Technologies in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets.

The official record: Applied Industrial Technologies’s 10-Q, filed October 29, 2020, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does operating segments — payments to acquire productive assets mean?: The amount of cash a business segment spends on purchasing long-term assets like machinery or facilities.
How do you interpret operating segments — payments to acquire productive assets?: An increase suggests active investment in growth or infrastructure, while a decrease may signal a focus on cash preservation or reduced capital needs.
How does operating segments — payments to acquire productive assets compare across companies?: Comparable to segment-level capital expenditures reported by industrial and manufacturing firms.