Margins and profitability in rental and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment

Rental and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipmentNACE 77.320

32 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 5.9 % of every krone.

19 % 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 -9.2 %, and one tenth above 19.8 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.

Top against weakest third

Top third
18.4 %
Weakest third
-7.1 %
Spread
25 percentage points
Equity ratio
24.1 %median of 32

Size

Profitability by size

Profitability by size
RevenueCompaniesMedian operating margin
20 to 100 m102.5 %
over 100 m1710.3 %

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

14 of 32 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 43.8 %.

Those that win have median revenue of 238.2 m kr, against 55.2 m kr for those that do not. That is 4.3× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.

The 35 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.

  • Sarpsborg kommune4
  • Ntnu4
  • Lunner Kommune4
  • Kristiansand Kommune3
  • Lillestrøm Kommune3

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 rental and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment

What is a normal operating margin in rental and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment?
The median company kept 5.9 % of every krone. That means half of the 32 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
What separates the best from the weakest in rental and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment?
The top third kept 18.4 % of every krone, against -7.1 % for the weakest third. The spread is 25 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
How many companies are there in rental and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment in Norway?
We hold filed accounts for 32 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 rental and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment?
19 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
How large is a typical company in rental and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment?
Median revenue is 108.4 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 33.3 m kr and 235.4 m kr.
How much do public contracts matter in rental and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment?
14 of 32 companies, that is 43.8 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 238.2 m kr, against 55.2 m kr for the rest.

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Method. 32 companies registered on industry code 77.320 (Rental and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment) 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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