Margins and profitability in wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery

Wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machineryNACE 46.630

59 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 5.7 % of every krone.

8 % 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 0.9 %, and one tenth above 12.7 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.

Top against weakest third

Top third
11.1 %
Weakest third
1.8 %
Spread
9 percentage points
Equity ratio
33.4 %median of 59

Size

Profitability by size

Profitability by size
RevenueCompaniesMedian operating margin
20 to 100 m115.7 %
over 100 m475.7 %

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.

Public contracts

Who in the industry wins public contracts

17 of 59 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 28.8 %.

Those that win have median revenue of 223.7 m kr, against 184.6 m kr for those that do not. That is 1.2× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.

The 51 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.

  • Sarpsborg kommune4
  • Ullensvang kommune3
  • Ntnu3
  • Ofa Iks2
  • Moss kommune2

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 wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery

What is a normal operating margin in wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery?
The median company kept 5.7 % of every krone. That means half of the 59 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
What separates the best from the weakest in wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery?
The top third kept 11.1 % of every krone, against 1.8 % for the weakest third. The spread is 9 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
How many companies are there in wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery in Norway?
We hold filed accounts for 59 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 wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery?
8 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
How large is a typical company in wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery?
Median revenue is 189.6 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 116.7 m kr and 467.2 m kr.
How much do public contracts matter in wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery?
17 of 59 companies, that is 28.8 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 223.7 m kr, against 184.6 m kr for the rest.

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Method. 59 companies registered on industry code 46.630 (Wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery) 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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