NACE 85.320
Margins and profitability in vocational secondary education
30 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median operating margin was 5.9 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid.
33 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.
In kroner
Revenue and operating profit
| Median company | Top third | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | NOK 40,071,984 | NOK 31,618,107 |
| Operating profit | NOK 2,234,563 | NOK 2,942,284 |
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 -9.1 %, and one tenth above 12.1 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
- Top third
- 11.3 %
- Weakest third
- -5.0 %
- Spread
- 16 percentage points
- Equity ratio
- 46.5 %median of 30
Geography
Where the companies are based
| Ålesund | 3 | |
| Oslo | 2 | |
| Lillehammer | 1 | |
| Øvrebø | 1 | |
| Moelv | 1 | |
| Kråkerøy | 1 |
The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
2 of 30 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 6.7 %.
Only 2 companies in the industry have won a public contract since 2022. That is too few for us to say how large they are compared with the rest.
Who puts them out to tender
The 4 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
| Forsvarsmateriell | 3 | |
| Politiets fellestjenester | 1 |
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 vocational secondary education
- What is a normal operating margin in vocational secondary education?
- The median operating margin was 5.9 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid. Half of the 30 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in vocational secondary education?
- The top third had an operating margin of 11.3 %, against -5.0 % 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 vocational secondary education in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 30 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 vocational secondary education?
- 33 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in vocational secondary education?
- Median revenue is NOK 40.1m. Half of the companies fall between NOK 26.7m and NOK 56.6m.
- How much do public contracts matter in vocational secondary education?
- We find almost no public contracts in this industry since 2022, so public procurement appears to play little role here.
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