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Teknisk tjenesteyting og forskning

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4 companies ranked against comparable companies in four Morning company classes. Fiscal year 2026. Source: Brønnøysund Register Centre. Methodology

Ranking · 2026 · Morning class Medium

Too few companies in this class (2, at least 10 needed) for a ranking of its own. They are compared with the whole sector.

Morning class Medium · 2026
#CompanyProfileScoreChangeFive years
1 MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS Leader 85 +10
2 ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS Sprinter 52 +8
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The rank is the rank in the class. A class with fewer than ten companies is compared with the whole sector. Full ranking · Press mode

Biggest moves · Morning class Medium

Top lists in the sector · 2026 · Morning class Medium

Combined profit before tax for the 2 ranked companies: 26 MNOK.

Highest revenue

  1. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS 166 MNOK
  2. ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS 132 MNOK

Operating revenue.

Highest operating margin

  1. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS 10.9%
  2. ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS 6.8%

Operating result divided by operating revenue.

Largest profit

  1. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS 17 MNOK
  2. ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS 9 MNOK

Profit before tax.

Largest loss

No company meets the requirement this year.

Profit before tax, the largest negative.

Most solid

  1. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS 76.9%
  2. ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS 23.3%

Equity ratio: equity divided by total assets.

Fastest growth

  1. ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS +13.2%
  2. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS +4.1%

Revenue growth from the year before, only from at least NOK 10 million in revenue.

Largest revenue decline

No company meets the requirement this year.

Revenue decline from the year before, only from at least NOK 10 million in revenue.

Biggest climbers

  1. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS +10.4 points
  2. ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS +7.7 points

Change in index points from the year before.

Biggest fallers

Requires an index for two financial years.

Change in index points from the year before.

Most employees

  1. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS 116
  2. ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS 11

Employees according to the Central Coordinating Register.

Highest revenue per employee

  1. ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS 12.0 MNOK
  2. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS 1.4 MNOK

Only companies with at least 5 employees.

The lists cover ranked companies in the class: operating companies with at least NOK 1m in revenue, without holding companies and excluded ones. Size lists (revenue, profit, employees) count each group once. Source: Brønnøysund Register Centre. Amounts in other currencies are converted at Norges Bank's rates.

Quadrant analysis

Positions in the sector · 2026 · Morning class Medium

Each company is placed by profitability and solidity, measured as a place from 0 to 100 against the others in the same sector and Morning company class. The bubble shows revenue. Hover over or tap a bubble for the figures, filter by profile or search for a company.

Too few ranked companies to draw the map.

The sector in numbers

Summary · fiscal year 2026 · Morning class Medium

The sector's median operating margin is 8.9%. 0 of 2 companies have negative equity. The median equity ratio is 50.1%.

Companies with accounts2
Total revenue297 MNOK
Median operating margin8.9%
Median equity ratio50.1%
Share with a loss0%
Share with negative equity0%

All figures are for fiscal year 2026. Ranked: 2 operating companies. Holding companies, excluded companies and companies without enough data are shown but not ranked. How to read the index

Climbers and fallers · Morning class Medium

Change in rank from 2025 to 2026, for 2 companies ranked in both years.

Climbers

  1. 119ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY ASfrom rank 121 to 252
  2. 10MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY ASfrom rank 11 to 185

Fallers

None.

Awards · 2026 · Morning class Medium

Most profitableMICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS10.9%
Fastest growthASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS13.2%
Strongest balance sheetMICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS76.9%
Largest revenueMICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NORWAY AS166 MNOK
Highest revenue per employeeASCENSIA DIABETES CARE NORWAY AS12.0 MNOK

Needs attention · 2026 · Morning class Medium

No company has negative equity, a loss or weak liquidity.

Sector map · 2026 · Morning class Medium

Too few ranked companies to draw the map.

Scenario analysis: the sector's weakest year

The sector's weakest year was 2021, with a median operating margin of −0.2%.

Based on the 8 fiscal years we have. The analysis grows as more years are fetched or imported.

Fiscal yearMedian operating marginMedian equity ratio
2019––
2020––
2021 · weakest year−0.2%4.0%
20224.6%36.1%
20235.9%39.2%
20246.2%38.4%
20255.6%38.8%
20265.2%43.3%

In 2021, 0 ranked companies did better than the sector, 1 about the same and 0 weaker.

Better than the sector: operating margin at or above the sector median and no loss or negative equity. Weaker: operating margin below the median and a loss or negative equity. Otherwise about the same as the sector. Methodology

The sector in Norway (SSB)

The whole industry as Statistics Norway counts it: every enterprise, not only the limited companies we rank. Use these figures as background for the ranking above.

Enterprises, employment and turnover · 2024

Enterprises
39,300
+1.8% from 2023
Persons employed
104,649
+0.9% from 2023
Turnover
NOK 270.1 bn
+6.7% from 2023
Gross operating margin
9.6%
Gross operating surplus divided by turnover

All enterprises, sole proprietorships included.

Bankruptcies in the industry

216 enterprise bankruptcies in the last four quarters (2025K4–2026K3). Change −17.9% against the four quarters before (263). That is about 5.5 per 1,000 enterprises.

612024K4852025K1652025K2522025K3612025K4502026K1512026K2542026K3

Foreign-controlled enterprises · 2024

Share of enterprises
2.6%
Share of persons employed
19.6%
Share of turnover
25.9%

SSB publishes this for groups of industries only. The figures are for the group “Faglig, vitenskapelig og teknisk tjenesteyting”.

Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 12910, table 10790, table 08085. CC BY 4.0. Our industry codes (SN2025) are linked to SSB’s (SN2007) with SSB’s correspondence table in Klass.

Latest bankruptcies and liquidations

All bankruptcies and liquidations in the sector

Industry codes (NACE)

CodeDescription
71*Hele hovedgruppe 71
71.110Arkitektvirksomhet
71.121Byggeteknisk konsulentvirksomhet
71.122Geologiske undersøkelser
71.123Utarbeidelse av kart og oppmåling
71.129Annen teknisk konsulentvirksomhet
71.200Teknisk prøving og analyse
72*Hele hovedgruppe 72
72.100Forskning og eksperimentell utvikling innenfor naturvitenskap og teknikk
72.200Forskning og eksperimentell utvikling innenfor samfunnsvitenskap og humanistiske fag
73*Hele hovedgruppe 73
73.110Reklamebyråvirksomhet
73.120Medieformidlingstjenester
73.200Markeds- og opinionsundersøkelser
73.300Pr og kommunikasjonstjenester
74*Hele hovedgruppe 74
74.110Industri-, produkt- og motedesignvirksomhet
74.120Grafisk design og visuell kommunikasjonsdesign
74.130Interiørdesignvirksomhet
74.140Annen spesialisert designvirksomhet
74.200Fotografvirksomhet
74.300Oversettelses- og tolkevirksomhet
74.910Patentmeglervirksomhet og markedsføringstjenester
74.990All annen faglig, vitenskapelig og teknisk virksomhet ikke nevnt annet sted
75*Hele hovedgruppe 75
75.000Veterinærtjenester