Margins and profitability in building of civilian ships and floating structures
64 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 5.7 % 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 -3.0 %, and one tenth above 12.2 %. 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 | 4.7 % |
| over 100 m | 48 | 6.1 % |
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
- Sunde I Sunnhordland1
- Rissa1
- Stavanger1
The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
7 of 64 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 10.9 %.
Only 7 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.
The 10 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Ålesund kommune2
- Ålesundregionens Havnevesen2
- Haram kommune1
- Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency1
- Ntnu1
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 building of civilian ships and floating structures
- What is a normal operating margin in building of civilian ships and floating structures?
- The median company kept 5.7 % of every krone. That means half of the 64 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in building of civilian ships and floating structures?
- The top third kept 11.6 % of every krone, against 0.6 % for the weakest third. The spread is 11 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in building of civilian ships and floating structures in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 64 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 building of civilian ships and floating structures?
- 14 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in building of civilian ships and floating structures?
- Median revenue is 165.6 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 101.7 m kr and 475.9 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in building of civilian ships and floating structures?
- We find almost no public contracts in this industry since 2022, so public procurement appears to play little role here.
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