Margins and profitability in roofing activities
60 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 4.2 % of every krone.
22 % 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 -2.9 %, and one tenth above 10.9 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 20 to 100 m | 44 | 3.8 % |
| over 100 m | 13 | 5.3 % |
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
15 of 60 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 25.0 %.
Those that win have median revenue of 83.8 m kr, against 46 m kr for those that do not. That is 1.8× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.
The 31 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Universitetet I Bergen4
- Frogn kommune2
- Hadeland og Ringerike Avfallsselskap AS2
- Lørenskog kommune2
- Oslo kommune v/ Oslobygg KF2
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 roofing activities
- What is a normal operating margin in roofing activities?
- The median company kept 4.2 % of every krone. That means half of the 60 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in roofing activities?
- The top third kept 10.2 % of every krone, against -0.7 % for the weakest third. The spread is 11 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in roofing activities in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 60 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 roofing activities?
- 22 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in roofing activities?
- Median revenue is 48.3 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 34 m kr and 86 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in roofing activities?
- 15 of 60 companies, that is 25.0 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 83.8 m kr, against 46 m kr for the rest.
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