The Assembly Top 50 devoted $110.6 billion to capital expenditures in 2010. That’s 9 percent more than they spent in 2009, but it’s 21 percent less than they spent in 2008. Only 15 of the Top 50 spent more on property, plants and equipment in 2010 than they spent in 2008.

Capital Expenditure ($ millions)
Company

2008

2009

2010

08 vs 10

Toyota 23,688 15,452 20,339 -14%
General Electric 10,954 6,478 7,208 -34%
General Motors 7,530 5,379 4,200 -44%
Daimler 4,954 3,491 4,881 -1%
Ford 6,492 4,059 4,092 -37%
Hewlett-Packard 2,990 3,695 4,133 38%
Honda 6,453 3,751 3,928 -39%
Nissan 13,507 11,241 9,358 -31%
Siemens 5,179 3,544 3,121 -40%
IBM  4,887 4,077 4,754 -3%
Apple 1,199 1,213 2,121 77%
Boeing 1,074 1,186 1,125 5%
Robert Bosch 4,560 2,726 3,179 -30%
Johnson & Johnson 3,066 2,365 2,384 -22%
Dell 440 367 444 1%
United Technologies 1,216 826 865 -29%
Fiat 6,922 4,872 4,960 -28%
Lockheed 926 852 820 -11%
Mitsubishi Electric 1,443 1,173 1,297 -10%
Cisco Systems 1,005 1,008 1,174 17%
Caterpillar  3,886 2,472 2,586 -33%
Volvo 1,677 1,481 1,531 -9%
Abbott Laboratories 1,288 1,089 1,015 -21%
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 2,002 1,904 1,524 -24%
Continental 2,220 1,239 1,732 -22%
BAE Systems 807 847 678 -16%
Northrop Grumman 681 654 770 13%
Johnson Controls 807 647 777 -4%
Philips Electronics 1,072 755 872 -19%
Honeywell 884 609 651 -26%
General Dynamics  490 385 370 -24%
ABB 1,171 967 840 -28%
Flextronics Intl 462 176 471 2%
Schneider Electric 579 485 502 -13%
Deere & Co. 1,112 907 762 -31%
Raytheon 378 347 386 2%
Magna Int'l 739 629 784 6%
Mitsubishi Motors 913 591 811 -11%
Xerox 335 193 519 55%
Alcatel-Lucent 1,254 990 918 -27%
Emerson Electric 714 531 524 -27%
Research in Motion 1,521 1,431 1,596 5%
Motorola Solutions 408 204 335 -18%
Faurecia 458 243 406 -11%
Whirlpool 547 541 620 13%
ZF Friedrichshafen 1,307 743 778 -40%
Rolls-Royce 414 472 560 35%
Tyco Int'l 1,098 1,245 1,277 16%
EMC 991 716 1,108 12%
Medtronic Inc. 663 635 548 -17%
Total 139,363 101,883 110,634 -21%