Margins and profitability in technical testing and analysis
49 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 6.6 % of every krone.
14 % 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 -4.5 %, and one tenth above 18.6 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 20 to 100 m | 16 | 7.7 % |
| over 100 m | 22 | 5.5 % |
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
19 of 49 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 38.8 %.
Those that win have median revenue of 113.2 m kr, against 71.7 m kr for those that do not. That is 1.6× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.
The 67 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Glitrevannverket IKS4
- Øvre Romerike Innkjøpssamarbeid4
- Ringerike Kommune3
- Ålesund kommune3
- Statens vegvesen3
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 technical testing and analysis
- What is a normal operating margin in technical testing and analysis?
- The median company kept 6.6 % of every krone. That means half of the 49 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in technical testing and analysis?
- The top third kept 16.3 % of every krone, against 1.1 % for the weakest third. The spread is 15 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in technical testing and analysis in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 49 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 technical testing and analysis?
- 14 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in technical testing and analysis?
- Median revenue is 78.7 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 27.3 m kr and 182.4 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in technical testing and analysis?
- 19 of 49 companies, that is 38.8 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 113.2 m kr, against 71.7 m kr for the rest.
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