I am looking for the asset replacement value for the U.S. Chemical
Manufacutring Indsutry, the Pulp and Paper Industry, Petrochemical
Refineries, Food Processing, Primary Metals and Electric Power
Generation.
For instance, in the Refinery industry there are 160 or so U.S.
refineries. Each facility has an asset replacement value. What is that
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
20 Feb 2003 13:40 PST
I'm pretty familiar with the literature and data systems having to do
with the chemical industry, and I've never seen numbers along the
lines of what you're requesting. Do you have reason to believe there
are such data out there? Would another measure of valuation be of any
use to you?
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Clarification of Question by
blucken-ga
on
20 Feb 2003 14:32 PST
We need to get the asset base of each of those industries as one input
to a larger cost model looking at maintenance expense. The data should
be out there somewhere. If you find similar applicable data that cuts
across the same industries let me know what it is and perhaps it would
suffice
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
20 Feb 2003 15:58 PST
Corporate annual reports generally have an "assets" section that
includes info that looks like this:
Property, plant and equipment:
Land.............................14,422
Buildings.......................299,528
Machinery and equipment..........884,389
Construction-in-progress..........27,750
TOTAL............................1,226,089
Less allowance for depreciation
and amortization..................(763,619)
___________
462,470
Which of these data (if any) would suit your purposes if summed for a
whole industry segment.
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Clarification of Question by
blucken-ga
on
20 Feb 2003 17:56 PST
The machinery and equipment category
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
21 Feb 2003 12:09 PST
The data are out there (at least for public companies) but it's just
too big a task to round it all up for so many industries. Even doing
it for a single industry would be a major undertaking.
Have you considered a statistical (i.e. "guesstimation") approach?
Pull out the assets data for a single large company in each industry,
compare the company's sales to overall industry sales, and scale up
the assets accordingly.
For example, if DuPont's assets are $125 million dollars, and DuPont's
sales are 10% of the entire chem industry, then scaling up gives total
industry assets of $1,250,000.
Just a thought!
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
21 Feb 2003 19:25 PST
Make that $1,250,000,000
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