Margins and profitability in wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products
30 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 1.3 % of every krone.
13 % 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 -1.2 %, and one tenth above 7.3 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
19 of 30 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 63.3 %.
Those that win have median revenue of 275 m kr, against 679.5 m kr for those that do not. That is 0.4× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.
The 40 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Forsvarsbygg5
- Anskaffelser i Akershus, Buskerud og Østfold KO4
- Sykehusinnkjøp HF3
- Politiets fellestjenester2
- Ullensvang 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 solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products
- What is a normal operating margin in wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products?
- The median company kept 1.3 % of every krone. That means half of the 30 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products?
- The top third kept 5.4 % of every krone, against 0.2 % for the weakest third. The spread is 5 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 30 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 solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products?
- 13 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products?
- Median revenue is 330.5 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 199.9 m kr and 1.2 bn kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products?
- 19 of 30 companies, that is 63.3 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 275 m kr, against 679.5 m kr for the rest.
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