Margins and profitability in funeral and related activities
33 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 9.7 % of every krone.
12 % 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 29.1 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
24 of 33 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 72.7 %.
Those that win have median revenue of 12.6 m kr, against 15.9 m kr for those that do not. That is 0.8× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.
The 33 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Politiets fellestjenester32
- Oslo kommune v/ Gravferdsetaten1
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 funeral and related activities
- What is a normal operating margin in funeral and related activities?
- The median company kept 9.7 % of every krone. That means half of the 33 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in funeral and related activities?
- The top third kept 23.4 % of every krone, against 4.1 % for the weakest third. The spread is 19 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in funeral and related activities in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 33 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 funeral and related activities?
- 12 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in funeral and related activities?
- Median revenue is 13.9 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 9.3 m kr and 17.4 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in funeral and related activities?
- 24 of 33 companies, that is 72.7 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 12.6 m kr, against 15.9 m kr for the rest.
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