Margins and profitability in other specialised construction activities n.e.c.

Other specialised construction activities n.e.c.NACE 43.990

571 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 3.7 % of every krone.

30 % 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 -9.1 %, and one tenth above 18.5 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.

Top against weakest third

Top third
13.8 %
Weakest third
-4.6 %
Spread
18 percentage points

Size

Profitability by size

Profitability by size
RevenueCompaniesMedian operating margin
1 to 5 m2142.9 %
5 to 20 m1823.7 %
20 to 100 m1274.1 %
over 100 m484.4 %

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

  • Oslo41
  • Skien11
  • Verdal10
  • Sandefjord9
  • Gressvik8
  • Skedsmokorset7

The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.

Public contracts

Who in the industry wins public contracts

27 of 571 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 4.7 %.

Those that win have median revenue of 204.2 m kr, against 7.9 m kr for those that do not. That is 25.8× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.

The 94 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.

  • Bane NOR SF6
  • Statsbygg6
  • Statens vegvesen5
  • Rogaland fylkeskommune5
  • Universitetet i Oslo4

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 other specialised construction activities n.e.c.

What is a normal operating margin in other specialised construction activities n.e.c.?
The median company kept 3.7 % of every krone. That means half of the 571 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
What separates the best from the weakest in other specialised construction activities n.e.c.?
The top third kept 13.8 % of every krone, against -4.6 % for the weakest third. The spread is 18 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
How many companies are there in other specialised construction activities n.e.c. in Norway?
We hold filed accounts for 571 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 other specialised construction activities n.e.c.?
30 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
How large is a typical company in other specialised construction activities n.e.c.?
Median revenue is 8.6 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 2.9 m kr and 27.7 m kr.
How much do public contracts matter in other specialised construction activities n.e.c.?
27 of 571 companies, that is 4.7 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 204.2 m kr, against 7.9 m kr for the rest.

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Method. 571 companies registered on industry code 43.990 (Other specialised construction activities n.e.c.) 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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