Margins and profitability in civil engineering activities
120 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 6.5 % of every krone.
17 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.
The distribution
What companies in the industry earned
One tenth of companies fell below -4.9 %, and one tenth above 19.4 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 m | 10 | 7.0 % |
| 5 to 20 m | 27 | 6.3 % |
| 20 to 100 m | 65 | 8.3 % |
| over 100 m | 18 | 5.3 % |
Companies are split into revenue bands, with the median margin in each. Bands with fewer than ten companies are omitted, because the median becomes too unstable to show.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
88 of 120 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 73.3 %.
Those that win have median revenue of 27.1 m kr, against 37 m kr for those that do not. That is 0.7× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.
The 705 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Statsbygg41
- Øvre Romerike Innkjøpssamarbeid41
- Bane NOR SF28
- Statens vegvesen27
- Rogaland fylkeskommune24
Contracts come from Doffin and TED. Our collection is not complete, and TED covers only contracts above the EEA threshold, so the figures are a floor and not a full count. We say what we find, not what exists.
Questions and answers
Common questions about civil engineering activities
- What is a normal operating margin in civil engineering activities?
- The median company kept 6.5 % of every krone. That means half of the 120 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in civil engineering activities?
- The top third kept 15.8 % of every krone, against 0.0 % for the weakest third. The spread is 16 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in civil engineering activities in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 120 Norwegian companies on this industry code with at least one million kroner in revenue. The real number is higher, since dormant and very small companies are excluded.
- How many are loss-making in civil engineering activities?
- 17 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in civil engineering activities?
- Median revenue is 32.1 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 17 m kr and 62.3 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in civil engineering activities?
- 88 of 120 companies, that is 73.3 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 27.1 m kr, against 37 m kr for the rest.
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