Margins and profitability in legal activities
481 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 16.5 % of every krone.
7 % 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 0.5 %, and one tenth above 47.7 %. 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 | 240 | 17.2 % |
| 5 to 20 m | 149 | 14.9 % |
| 20 to 100 m | 64 | 13.6 % |
| over 100 m | 28 | 30.9 % |
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.
Geography
Where the companies are based
- Oslo139
- Bergen20
- Trondheim20
- Stavanger19
- Tromsø9
- Skien9
The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
40 of 481 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 8.3 %.
Those that win have median revenue of 100.3 m kr, against 4.7 m kr for those that do not. That is 21.3× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.
The 148 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Statens vegvesen11
- GKI Grenlandskommunenes Innkjøpsenhet10
- The Oslo School of Architecture and Design8
- OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet8
- Sirkula IKS7
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 legal activities
- What is a normal operating margin in legal activities?
- The median company kept 16.5 % of every krone. That means half of the 481 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in legal activities?
- The top third kept 40.3 % of every krone, against 2.3 % for the weakest third. The spread is 38 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in legal activities in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 481 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 legal activities?
- 7 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in legal activities?
- Median revenue is 5 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 3.5 m kr and 14.6 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in legal activities?
- 40 of 481 companies, that is 8.3 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 100.3 m kr, against 4.7 m kr for the rest.
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