Margins and profitability in other technical consultancy
247 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 5.9 % of every krone.
23 % 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 -16.0 %, and one tenth above 20.7 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 m | 13 | 6.3 % |
| 5 to 20 m | 37 | 5.2 % |
| 20 to 100 m | 123 | 4.5 % |
| over 100 m | 74 | 7.0 % |
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.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
94 of 247 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 38.1 %.
Those that win have median revenue of 35.4 m kr, against 75.7 m kr for those that do not. That is 0.5× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.
The 255 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Bane NOR SF11
- Universitetet I Bergen8
- Ålesund kommune7
- Asker kommune7
- Øvre Romerike Innkjøpssamarbeid7
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 technical consultancy
- What is a normal operating margin in other technical consultancy?
- The median company kept 5.9 % of every krone. That means half of the 247 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in other technical consultancy?
- The top third kept 15.9 % of every krone, against -4.7 % for the weakest third. The spread is 21 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in other technical consultancy in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 247 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 technical consultancy?
- 23 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in other technical consultancy?
- Median revenue is 61 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 26 m kr and 133.2 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in other technical consultancy?
- 94 of 247 companies, that is 38.1 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 35.4 m kr, against 75.7 m kr for the rest.
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