Ocean Return AS
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Score · fiscal year 2025
55of 100
How to read this: the company is ahead of 60 % of companies in the Morning class Small in the same sector in 2025. What does this mean?
Rank in the Morning class Small: 589 of 1,478 · What are Morning company classes?
Place in the whole sector: 2,551 of 6,320 · Forretningsmessig tjenesteyting
Profile
Cheetah · Sprinter
High profitability, lower resilience
Position against comparable companies in 2025, not a verdict on the company. Based on profitability 57 and resilience 42 out of 100 among companies in the Morning class Small in the same sector in 2025. Methodology
Against the sector
Ocean Return AS is 4 points above the median for companies in the Morning class Small in the same sector in 2025.
Median score 51 among 1,478 companies.
Against companies in the Morning class Small in the same sector in 2025: operating margin 21.6% (median 5.0%) and equity ratio 30.8% (median 27.3%).
How it has gone · 2023–2025
Revenue rose by 36 % from 2023 to 2025, to 10.1 MNOK. The operating margin rose from −0.7% in 2023 to 21.6% in 2025. The equity ratio rose from 22.9% in 2023 to 30.8% in 2025.
Amounts in the reporting currency. The full year-by-year table is further down under «Details». See every figure year by year
Ocean Return AS has a score of 55 for 2025, rank 2,551 of 6,320 in the sector.
Strongest: Growth: percentile 71 against peers, revenue growth 10.9% against a median of 7.1%.
Weakest: Consistency: percentile 28 against peers. Liquidity: percentile 29 against peers, current ratio 1.02 against a median of 1.27.
Worth a closer look
- The operating result does not cover the financial costs. How will the debt be serviced, and what do the lenders say? Based on: interest coverage (times) 0.6 (median 8.8); financial costs as a share of debt 8.4% (median 1.2%).
- The company made a loss before tax. Are these one-off items or a pattern? Based on: profit margin −14.0% (median 5.0%).
- Receivables equal far more days of revenue than at comparable companies. Do customers pay late, or are these loans to companies in the same group? Based on: receivable days 117 days (median 54 days).
- What lies behind weak consistency, and will it last?
Written by fixed rules from the figures. Describes the figures, does not explain causes. Not investment or financial advice. How the summary is made
Worth a closer look
- critical
The operating result does not cover the financial costs. How will the debt be serviced, and what do the lenders say?
Based on: Interest coverage (times) 0.6 (median 8.8); Financial costs as a share of debt 8.4% (median 1.2%).
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The company made a loss before tax. Are these one-off items or a pattern?
Based on: Profit margin −14.0% (median 5.0%).
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Receivables equal far more days of revenue than at comparable companies. Do customers pay late, or are these loans to companies in the same group?
Based on: Receivable days 117 days (median 54 days).
Indications based on the latest annual accounts from open data. Not investment or financial advice.
Financial costs were 8.4% of the debt in 2025. The policy rate averaged 4.30 % the same year. This is a plain description of what the debt cost, not a model of interest sensitivity.
See interest rates, prices and exchange rates for the sector
Data quality
No anomalies found in the figures.
Scenario analysis: the sector's weakest year
We have no accounts for 2021, the sector's weakest year, for this company.
The sector's weakest year was 2021, with a median operating margin of 0.4%. Based on the 10 fiscal years we have. The analysis grows as more years are fetched or imported. Methodology
What the score is made of
| Profitability | 57 | weight 40% |
|---|---|---|
| Solidity | 52 | weight 20% |
| Liquidity | 29 | weight 5% |
| Growth | 71 | weight 25% |
| Consistency | 28 | weight 10% |
Three goals: profitability 40%, growth 25%, resilience 35%. Why these weights?
Durability: 46 (average over 3 years)
Index version 3. Data completeness 100%: the share of the weights that had data.
The numbers behind the score
| Measure | Company | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Operating revenue | 10 MNOK | 19 MNOK |
| Operating margin | 21.6% | 5.0% |
| Profit margin | −14.0% | 5.0% |
| Return on assets | 3.5% | 11.8% |
| Equity ratio | 30.8% | 27.3% |
| Debt-to-equity | 2.25 | 2.22 |
| Current ratio | 1.02 | 1.27 |
| Revenue growth | 10.9% | 7.1% |
The median and “ahead of” refer to companies in the Morning class Small in the same sector in 2025. The bar shows the share of companies the figure is ahead of.
With an index of 55, Ocean Return AS does better than 60% of companies in the Morning class Small in the same sector (1,478 companies) in 2025.
Score 2023–2025
- Ocean Return AS
- Median: companies in the Morning class Small in the same sector
Working capital and debt
| Measure | Company | Median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital | |||
| Receivable days All current receivables, including those on group companies, in days of revenue. |
117 days | 54 days | |
| Inventory and other current assets, days Current assets other than receivables and bank deposits, that is inventory and short-term investments, in days of revenue. |
0 days | 0 days | |
| Net working capital to revenue Current assets less bank deposits less current liabilities, divided by revenue. Negative: short-term debt funds the operations. |
0.4% | −6.1% | |
| Cash share of current assets How much of the short-term buffer is bank deposits and cash. |
0.7% | 40.8% | |
| Debt and interest burden | |||
| Interest coverage (times) Operating result divided by all financial costs. Below 1: operations do not cover the cost of the debt. |
0.6 | 8.8 | |
| Financial costs as a share of debt All financial costs (interest, currency losses and other) divided by all debt, interest-free debt included. Not an interest rate. |
8.4% | 1.2% | |
| Long-term share of debt Long-term debt as a share of all debt. A low share means more falls due within a year. |
– | 19.7% | |
Net working capital (current assets less bank deposits less current liabilities): 0.0 MNOK.
Of the financial costs of 3.6 MNOK, 3.6 MNOK is reported as interest costs in the accounts.
The median and the bar refer to companies in the Morning class Small in the same sector in 2025. The bar shows the share of the group with a lower figure: higher is not always better, long receivable days tie up capital, for example. These figures do not count in the score.
The industry or the company: what drove the result?
In 2025 the operating margin of Ocean Return AS rose by 8.5 percentage points. Comparable companies rose by a median 0.5 points. So the company did 8.0 points better than the industry, for reasons of its own.
Over 2 year-to-year changes Ocean Return AS moved the same way as comparable companies 1 times. About 4% of the changes in operating margin were common to the industry; the rest was the company's own.
| Year | The company | Comparable (median) | Change, company | Change, industry | The company's own |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13.1% | 4.5% | +13.8 percentage points | −0.3 percentage points | +14.1 percentage points |
| 2025 | 21.6% | 5.0% | +8.5 percentage points | +0.5 percentage points | +8.0 percentage points |
Comparable companies are those in the same industry and Morning company class. Their change shows what hit the whole industry, the sector drivers below included. The rest is the company's own: contracts, costs, one-off items or operations. The share is approximate, and we claim no cause.
The company and its sector's drivers
Prices, rate and currency that shape the sector's year, year by year beside the operating margin of Ocean Return AS. The figures stand side by side; we claim no cause.
Service prices: business support services (indeks (2021 = 100))
Service prices: business support services rose 3.8% in 2025; the operating margin of Ocean Return AS rose 8.5 percentage points.
| Measure | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service prices: business support services, annual average | 100.0 | 104.9 | 111.1 | 116.9 | 121.3 | 122.3 (so far) |
| Change from the year before | – | +4.9% | +5.9% | +5.2% | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| The company's operating margin | – | – | −0.7% | 13.1% | 21.6% | – |
Source: SSB (14335, CC BY 4.0). Source
Turnover index: administrative and support services (indeks (2021 = 100))
Turnover index: administrative and support services rose 5.8% in 2025; the operating margin of Ocean Return AS rose 8.5 percentage points.
| Measure | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover index: administrative and support services, annual average | 99.5 | 117.4 | 126.0 | 130.8 | 138.4 | 141.3 (so far) |
| Change from the year before | +5.3% | +17.9% | +7.4% | +3.8% | +5.8% | +2.1% |
| The company's operating margin | – | – | −0.7% | 13.1% | 21.6% | – |
Source: SSB (13863, CC BY 4.0). Source
Consumer price index (indeks (2025 = 100))
Consumer price index rose 3.0% in 2025; the operating margin of Ocean Return AS rose 8.5 percentage points.
| Measure | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer price index, annual average | 84.3 | 89.2 | 94.1 | 97.0 | 100.0 | 103.0 (so far) |
| Change from the year before | +3.5% | +5.8% | +5.5% | +3.2% | +3.0% | +3.0% |
| The company's operating margin | – | – | −0.7% | 13.1% | 21.6% | – |
Source: SSB (14710, CC BY 4.0). Source
Policy rate (prosent)
Policy rate fell 0.20 percentage points in 2025; the operating margin of Ocean Return AS rose 8.5 percentage points.
| Measure | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Policy rate, annual average | 0.08 | 1.32 | 3.54 | 4.50 | 4.30 | 4.17 (so far) |
| Change from the year before | −0.28 percentage points | +1.24 percentage points | +2.22 percentage points | +0.96 percentage points | −0.20 percentage points | −0.12 percentage points |
| The company's operating margin | – | – | −0.7% | 13.1% | 21.6% | – |
Source: Norges Bank (IR, NLOD 2.0). Source
Wage index: business support services (indeks)
Wage index: business support services rose 5.7% in 2025; the operating margin of Ocean Return AS rose 8.5 percentage points.
| Measure | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wage index: business support services, annual average | 81.5 | 85.5 | 89.7 | 94.8 | 100.3 | 106.3 (so far) |
| Change from the year before | +3.5% | +4.9% | +4.9% | +5.7% | +5.7% | +6.0% |
| The company's operating margin | – | – | −0.7% | 13.1% | 21.6% | – |
Source: SSB (12314, CC BY 4.0). Source
We show the drivers and the margin side by side and claim no cause. Sensitivity per company is not computed until we have at least 10 years of accounts per company: with three years such figures are false precision.
What the numbers say
Ocean Return AS had an operating margin of 21.6% and an equity ratio of 30.8% in 2025, and ranks 2,551 of 6,320 in Forretningsmessig tjenesteyting.
From 2024 to 2025: the operating margin rose from 13.1% to 21.6% and revenue grew by 11%.
This text is generated automatically from the 2025 accounts.
Three simple methods
The methods give between 10 MNOK and 32 MNOK.
| Method | Multiple | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| P/E | 17.3 | not meaningful |
| EV/EBIT | 14.1 | 10 MNOK |
| P/B | 2.7 | 32 MNOK |
| EV/EBIT: from enterprise value to equity | NOK |
|---|---|
| Enterprise value (EV) at the listed multiple | 16 MNOK |
| Enterprise value after the size adjustment | 10 MNOK |
| Less net debt (rough figure) | 0 MNOK |
| Equity value | 10 MNOK |
Net debt is a rough figure: long-term liabilities minus cash. The accounts do not split interest-bearing debt from other liabilities, and short-term borrowings are not included. The size adjustment applies to the enterprise value, not to the debt.
The listed basis is the value at listed multiples. The estimate is lowered for size: a small-company premium of 4% on the cost of equity gives a value 38% lower. No separate marketability discount is applied, because the premium already allows for the company being small and unlisted.
The NACE code has no listed industry of its own in the table, so the multiples are the sector median: Business & Consumer Services, Office Equipment & Services.
Not financial advice. The value range is a rough model estimate from listed-company multiples, not a valuation, a price target or a price offer. The actual value may differ greatly. Read more
A mechanical estimate from public accounts, not advice. A mechanical estimate from public accounts with listed multiples and fixed adjustments. Not a valuation and not advice to buy or sell. See the calculation
Questions and answers
How profitable is Ocean Return AS?
The operating margin was 21.6% in 2025, against a median of 5.0% among companies in the Morning class Small in the same sector. Return on assets was 3.5%. The company made a loss before tax.
How solid is Ocean Return AS?
The equity ratio was 30.8% in 2025 (median 27.3%). Debt-to-equity was 2.25 (median 2.22).
What is the liquidity of Ocean Return AS like?
The current ratio was 1.02 in 2025 (median 1.27).
How does Ocean Return AS compare in Forretningsmessig tjenesteyting?
Ocean Return AS ranks 2,551 of 6,320 in Forretningsmessig tjenesteyting for 2025. Among companies in the Morning class Small it is number 589 of 1,478. Revenue changed by 10.9% from the year before.
Competitors
The 8 closest competitors in the same line of business, placed in the same matrix as the sector page: profitability up, resilience to the right. These are the companies the competitor analysis and the strategy report compare with.
Each bubble is a company: this company and its closest competitors in the same line of business and size, the same ones the competitor analysis uses. Placement is 0–100 against the whole sector and Morning company class: further right is more robust, higher up is more profitable. Bubble size is revenue. The light bubble and arrow show where the company stood the year before. Pick a profile to see fewer at a time.
| Company | Profile | Operating revenue | Operating margin | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Containerservice Ringerike AS |  Beaver |
11 MNOK | 4.7% | 41 |
| Rakkestad Containerservice AS |  Lion |
11 MNOK | 10.4% | 78 |
| Empire Media AS | Lion |
11 MNOK | 25.5% | 77 |
| M Løvaas Maskinutleie AS |  Elephant |
10 MNOK | −4.3% | 32 |
| Ocean Return AS (this company) |  Cheetah |
10 MNOK | 21.6% | 55 |
| XL Rental AS | Cheetah |
10 MNOK | 30.1% | 63 |
| Modulselskapet AS | Cheetah |
10 MNOK | 53.5% | 51 |
| Container Solutions AS | Beaver |
10 MNOK | −1.7% | 24 |
| Eosh Utleie AS | Lion |
10 MNOK | 22.1% | 69 |
The selection is the closest in revenue within the same industry code. When you order, you can swap competitors. Order competitor analysis
Group structure · 2025
6 companies in the group according to the shareholder register for 2025. A company counts as a subsidiary when a Norwegian company owns more than half of its shares.
No owner holds more than half of the shares in Salt Holding AS.
Salt Holding AS has not filed group accounts in open data, so the group has no index of its own. Each company has its own accounts.
The group in figures
- Sectors
- Industri (2 companies), Forretningsmessig tjenesteyting (1 company), Olje og gass (1 company), Revisjon, regnskap og rådgivning (1 company), Teknisk tjenesteyting og forskning (1 company) 6 of 6 companies in the tree have accounts with us. Sectors are sorted by the companies' own revenue, which includes sales between the group's companies.
- Employees in Norway
- 18 in all. Kristiansund 18 Registered employees in the Central Coordinating Register, by the municipality of the business address. Employees may work elsewhere.
- Negative equity
- 3 companies: Jett Technologies AS, Salt Management AS, Renocean Subsea Mining AS
- Loss
- 5 companies: Renocean AS, Ocean Return AS, Jett Technologies AS, Salt Management AS, Renocean Subsea Mining AS
A subsidiary with negative equity or a loss may be backed by the group, for example with group contributions or guarantees. It is an indication of what is worth asking about, not an assessment.
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Salt Holding AS
- Ocean Return AS you are here
- Renocean AS
- Jett Technologies AS
- Renocean Subsea Mining AS
- Salt Management AS
Read the figures with care: a company in a group can look strong because of group contributions, or weak because dividends go up to the parent. The figures are indications, not the full picture.
Source: the Norwegian Tax Administration's shareholder register 2025 (majority owner with more than 50 % of the shares). Voting agreements and ownership through other countries are not included.
From the Central Coordinating Register
- Org. no.
- 922993548
- Legal form
- AS
- Sector
- Forretningsmessig tjenesteyting (77.390)
- Purpose
- Leie ut diverse mekanisk utstyr.
- Morning company class
- Small
- Employees
- 0–4 (not registered)
- Founded
- 5 June 2019 7 years in operation
- Share capital
- 15.00 MNOK
- Business address
- Dalegata 137, 6518 KRISTIANSUND N
- Municipality
- Kristiansund rank 17–26 of 27 in KOSTRA group 9
- Latest accounts filed
- 2025
- VAT registered
- Yes
Source: Central Coordinating Register, Brønnøysund Register Centre. The employee count is reported by the company and may be older than the accounts. See the company at the Brønnøysund Register Centre
Ownership and roles
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Source: Central Coordinating Register, fetched 3 November 2026. Only names are shown.
Shareholders (2025)
- Number of shareholders
- 1 (one owner)
- Largest owner
- 100.0%
- Split
- companies 100% · private persons 0% · foreign 0%
- Owned from the same municipality
- 100%
- Group chain
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Owned by: Salt Holding AS (100%)
Ultimate owner: Salt Holding AS
- Salt Holding AS · 100.0%
The company is new in the shareholder register in 2025.
Source: the Norwegian Tax Administration's shareholder register as of 2025. Figures may be older than today's ownership. Private persons are not shown by name.
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Figures last fetched 9 November 2026.
Year by year · 2023–2025
| Key figure | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index | 29 | 52 | 55 | |
| Rank | 4,376 | 2,765 | 2,551 | |
| Operating margin | −0.7% | 13.1% | 21.6% | |
| Return on assets | −0.1% | 1.8% | 3.5% | |
| Equity ratio | 22.9% | 29.2% | 30.8% | |
| Current ratio | 0.71 | 0.76 | 1.02 | |
| Revenue growth | – | 22.5% | 10.9% |
Accounts
From the Brønnøysund Register Centre, in the company's reporting currency (NOK).
| Key figure | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating revenue | 7.5 MNOK | 9.1 MNOK | 10.1 MNOK |
| Operating profit | −0.1 MNOK | 1.2 MNOK | 2.2 MNOK |
| Profit before tax | −3.9 MNOK | −2.8 MNOK | −1.4 MNOK |
| Tax expense | −0.9 MNOK | −0.6 MNOK | −0.3 MNOK |
| Net profit | −3.0 MNOK | −2.2 MNOK | −1.1 MNOK |
| Financial expenses | 3.8 MNOK | 4.1 MNOK | 3.6 MNOK |
| Total assets | 77.6 MNOK | 69.0 MNOK | 61.9 MNOK |
| Current assets | 14.2 MNOK | 6.1 MNOK | 3.3 MNOK |
| Equity | 17.7 MNOK | 20.2 MNOK | 19.1 MNOK |
| Retained earnings | 0.0 MNOK | 2.4 MNOK | 1.3 MNOK |
| Total liabilities | 59.8 MNOK | 48.8 MNOK | 42.8 MNOK |
| Current liabilities | 20.1 MNOK | 8.1 MNOK | 3.2 MNOK |
Source: Brønnøysund Register Centre (Register of Company Accounts), fetched 9 November 2026, accounts id 7240474.
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