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Margins and profitability in masonry and bricklaying activities

Masonry and bricklaying activitiesNACE 43.910

31 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 4.0 % of every krone.

16 % 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 -1.0 %, and one tenth above 9.9 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.

Top against weakest third

Top third
9.1 %
Weakest third
0.3 %
Spread
9 percentage points
Equity ratio
29.4 %median of 31

Public contracts

Who in the industry wins public contracts

5 of 31 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 16.1 %.

Only 5 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 8 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.

  • Rogaland fylkeskommune3
  • Haugesund kommune1
  • Moss kommune1
  • Oslo kommune v/ Oslobygg KF1
  • Sarpsborg kommune1

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 masonry and bricklaying activities

What is a normal operating margin in masonry and bricklaying activities?
The median company kept 4.0 % of every krone. That means half of the 31 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
What separates the best from the weakest in masonry and bricklaying activities?
The top third kept 9.1 % of every krone, against 0.3 % for the weakest third. The spread is 9 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
How many companies are there in masonry and bricklaying activities in Norway?
We hold filed accounts for 31 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 masonry and bricklaying activities?
16 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
How large is a typical company in masonry and bricklaying activities?
Median revenue is 46.9 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 31.5 m kr and 77.5 m kr.
How much do public contracts matter in masonry and bricklaying activities?
We find almost no public contracts in this industry since 2022, so public procurement appears to play little role here.

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Method. 31 companies registered on industry code 43.910 (Masonry and bricklaying activities) 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.

Each company appears with the most recent accounts we hold for it. For the great majority that is the 2024 filing. Around eight per cent had already filed for 2025 when we collected, and for those the 2025 figures apply. We therefore write "latest accounts" rather than naming a single year.

We show one cross-section and no trend line. Our database has broad coverage for the most recent accounting year, but only a small and non-random sample for earlier years. A curve over time 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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