Margins and profitability in painting and glazing
983 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 4.0 % of every krone.
27 % 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 -7.8 %, and one tenth above 17.8 %. 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 | 523 | 2.7 % |
| 5 to 20 m | 325 | 5.3 % |
| 20 to 100 m | 124 | 5.6 % |
| over 100 m | 11 | 6.7 % |
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
- Oslo127
- Trondheim27
- Stavanger22
- Kristiansand S16
- Skien16
- Drammen15
The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
59 of 983 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 6.0 %.
Those that win have median revenue of 30.4 m kr, against 4.1 m kr for those that do not. That is 7.4× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.
The 90 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Vestby kommune7
- Sarpsborg kommune5
- Drammen Eiendom KF5
- Haugesund kommune4
- Oslo kommune v/ Utviklings- og kompetanseetaten4
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 painting and glazing
- What is a normal operating margin in painting and glazing?
- The median company kept 4.0 % of every krone. That means half of the 983 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in painting and glazing?
- The top third kept 13.5 % of every krone, against -3.4 % for the weakest third. The spread is 17 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in painting and glazing in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 983 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 painting and glazing?
- 27 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in painting and glazing?
- Median revenue is 4.6 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 2.1 m kr and 10.7 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in painting and glazing?
- 59 of 983 companies, that is 6.0 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 30.4 m kr, against 4.1 m kr for the rest.
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