NACE 49.320

Margins and profitability in non-scheduled passenger transport by road

50 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median operating margin was 4.0 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid.

26 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.

In kroner

Revenue and operating profit

Revenue and operating profit
Median companyTop third
RevenueNOK 26,788,789NOK 40,958,129
Operating profitNOK 1,022,198NOK 5,317,039
Revenue per employeeNOK 866,882NOK 927,211

Revenue per employee is calculated on the 49 of 50 companies that report an employee count, as the median of the ratio within each company.

Median, not mean. A mean would be pulled up by the largest companies in the industry, and would say little about a typical one.

The distribution

What companies in the industry earned

One tenth of companies fell below -4.4 %, and one tenth above 15.4 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.

Top against weakest third

Top third
12.8 %
Weakest third
-2.9 %
Spread
16 percentage points
Equity ratio
23.5 %median of 50

Size

Profitability by size

Profitability by size
RevenueCompaniesMedian operating margin
5 to 20 m132.0 %
20 to 100 m264.2 %
over 100 m106.1 %

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

Where the companies are based
Oslo8
Rolvsøy2
Åmotsdal1
Fjellhamar1
Evje1
Tomasjord1

The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.

Public contracts

Who in the industry wins public contracts

29 of 50 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 58.0 %.

Those that win have median revenue of NOK 52m, against NOK 21.5m for those that do not. That is 2.4× as much. It describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.

Who puts them out to tender

The 99 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.

Who puts them out to tender
Ruter As18
Oslo kommune v/ Utdanningsetaten10
Tromsø kommune6
Asker kommune4
Stavanger kommune4

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 non-scheduled passenger transport by road

What is a normal operating margin in non-scheduled passenger transport by road?
The median operating margin was 4.0 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid. Half of the 50 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
What separates the best from the weakest in non-scheduled passenger transport by road?
The top third had an operating margin of 12.8 %, against -2.9 % for the weakest. The spread is 16 percentage points, within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
How many companies are there in non-scheduled passenger transport by road in Norway?
We hold filed accounts for 50 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 much revenue does a company in Non-scheduled passenger transport by road generate per employee?
The median company in Non-scheduled passenger transport by road turns over NOK 867,000 per employee. The figure is calculated on the 49 of 50 companies that report an employee count.
How many are loss-making in non-scheduled passenger transport by road?
26 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
How large is a typical company in non-scheduled passenger transport by road?
Median revenue is NOK 26.8m. Half of the companies fall between NOK 19.4m and NOK 68m.
How much do public contracts matter in non-scheduled passenger transport by road?
29 of 50 companies, that is 58.0 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of NOK 52m, against NOK 21.5m for the rest.

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Method. 50 companies registered on industry code 49.320 (Non-scheduled passenger transport by road) with filed accounts and at least one million kroner in revenue. The figures come from the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises and are public. Operating margin is operating profit divided by operating revenue.

All figures are from the 2025 accounts as filed with the Brønnøysund Register Centre. The year comes from the accounting period, not from the filing date, so every company appears with the year its figures actually cover.

We show one cross-section and no trend line. Our database has broad coverage for 2024 and 2025, but only a small and non-random sample for the years before. A curve over a longer period would therefore measure who we happened to collect, not what happened in the industry.

Companies with under one million in revenue are excluded, because dormant limited companies would otherwise pull the median down. We do not publish an industry page until we hold at least 30 companies.

This is a description of an industry, not a ranking of companies. We name no individual company here.

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