Cardea AS
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Key facts
Is the company run well?
Five key figures against companies in the Morning class Micro in the same sector. Green is better than most, amber about like the industry and red weaker than most.
- Profitability · operating margin 74.0% Better than the industry Industry: 47.7%
- Returns · return on assets 6.5% About like the industry Industry: 7.8%
- Solidity · equity ratio 68.8% Better than the industry Industry: 27.9%
- Liquidity · current ratio 1.93 About like the industry Industry: 1.40
- Growth · revenue growth 3.8% About like the industry Industry: 3.3%
The mark comes from the company's place among comparable companies (percentile): green from 60, amber from 40, red below 40. Negative equity, an operating loss and a current ratio under 1 pull it down regardless. Methodology
Score · fiscal year 2025
59of 100
How to read this: the company is ahead of 71 % of companies in the Morning class Micro in the same sector in 2025. What does this mean?
Rank in the Morning class Micro: 6,979 of 23,905 · What are Morning company classes?
Place in the whole sector: 8,672 of 30,132 · Eiendom
Profile
Lion · Leader
High profitability, high resilience
Position against comparable companies in 2025, not a verdict on the company. Based on profitability 63 and resilience 70 out of 100 among companies in the Morning class Micro in the same sector in 2025. Methodology
Against the sector
Cardea AS is 9 points above the median for companies in the Morning class Micro in the same sector in 2025.
Median score 50 among 23,899 companies.
Against companies in the Morning class Micro in the same sector in 2025: operating margin 74.0% (median 47.7%) and equity ratio 68.8% (median 27.9%).
How it has gone · 2023–2025
Revenue fell by 68 % from 2023 to 2025, to 8.4 MNOK. The operating margin fell from 95.3% in 2023 to 74.0% in 2025. The equity ratio fell from 70.6% in 2023 to 68.8% in 2025.
Amounts in the reporting currency. The full year-by-year table is further down under «Details». See every figure year by year
Accounts in short
| Key figure | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating revenue | 26.2 MNOK | 8.1 MNOK | 8.4 MNOK |
| Operating profit | 24.9 MNOK | 6.8 MNOK | 6.2 MNOK |
| Net profit | 22.9 MNOK | 2.2 MNOK | 1.1 MNOK |
| Total assets | 108.4 MNOK | 104.8 MNOK | 100.2 MNOK |
| Equity | 76.5 MNOK | 72.5 MNOK | 69.0 MNOK |
| Total liabilities | 31.9 MNOK | 32.2 MNOK | 31.3 MNOK |
From the Brønnøysund Register Centre, in the company's reporting currency (NOK). See every figure year by year
From the Central Coordinating Register
- Org. no.
- 980161625
- Legal form
- AS
- Sector
- Eiendom (68.120)
- Purpose
- Handel, konsulentvirksomhet, eiendomsutvikling, investering i aksjer, andeler og andre finans- og realobjekter, finansiell virksomhet, deltagelse i andre virksomheter samt alt hva som står i forbindelse med ovennevnte.
- Morning company class
- Micro
- Employees
- 0–4 (not registered)
- Founded
- 20 August 1998 28 years in operation
- Share capital
- 4.17 MNOK
- Business address
- Indresundåsen 20, 4770 HØVÅG (LILLESAND)
- Municipality
- Lillesand rank 3–17 of 38 in KOSTRA group 7
- Latest accounts filed
- 2025
- VAT registered
- No
- Former names
- Astra Prosjekt AS until 2008
- LEI
- 8945001TW05TFN7DYQ55 renews 20 October 2027
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
Cardea AS has a score of 59 for 2025, rank 8,672 of 30,132 in the sector.
Strongest: Solidity: percentile 79 against peers, equity ratio 68.8% against a median of 27.9%. Profitability: percentile 63 against peers, operating margin 74.0% against a median of 47.7%.
Weakest: Growth: percentile 37 against peers, revenue growth 3.8% against a median of 3.3%.
Worth a closer look
- The operating result covers the financial costs less than one and a half times. How much higher interest or a weaker year can the company take? Based on: interest coverage (times) 1.2 (median 1.8); financial costs as a share of debt 16.6% (median 5.0%).
- What lies behind weak growth, and will it last?
- The change in operating margin in 2025 was 10.4 percentage points weaker than for comparable companies: the company −9.7, the industry +0.7 points. That is the company's own, not something that hit the whole industry.
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
- watch
The operating result covers the financial costs less than one and a half times. How much higher interest or a weaker year can the company take?
Based on: Interest coverage (times) 1.2 (median 1.8); Financial costs as a share of debt 16.6% (median 5.0%).
Indications based on the latest annual accounts from open data. Not investment or financial advice.
Financial costs were 16.6% 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 2022, the sector's weakest year, for this company.
The sector's weakest year was 2022, with a median operating margin of 15.0%. 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 | 63 | weight 40% |
|---|---|---|
| Solidity | 79 | weight 20% |
| Liquidity | 59 | weight 5% |
| Growth | 37 | weight 25% |
| Consistency | 59 | weight 10% |
Three goals: profitability 40%, growth 25%, resilience 35%. Why these weights?
Durability: 68 (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 | 8 MNOK | 2 MNOK |
| Operating margin | 74.0% | 47.7% |
| Profit margin | 16.3% | 24.4% |
| Return on assets | 6.5% | 7.8% |
| Equity ratio | 68.8% | 27.9% |
| Debt-to-equity | 0.45 | 2.10 |
| Current ratio | 1.93 | 1.40 |
| Revenue growth | 3.8% | 3.3% |
The median and “ahead of” refer to companies in the Morning class Micro in the same sector in 2025. The bar shows the share of companies the figure is ahead of.
With an index of 59, Cardea AS does better than 71% of companies in the Morning class Micro in the same sector (23,905 companies) in 2025.
Score 2023–2025
- Cardea AS
- Median: companies in the Morning class Micro 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. |
0 days | 40 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. |
883 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. |
96.7% | −12.4% | |
| Cash share of current assets How much of the short-term buffer is bank deposits and cash. |
13.6% | 54.9% | |
| 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. |
1.2 | 1.8 | |
| 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. |
16.6% | 5.0% | |
| Long-term share of debt Long-term debt as a share of all debt. A low share means more falls due within a year. |
60.9% | 87.8% | |
Net working capital (current assets less bank deposits less current liabilities): 8.1 MNOK.
Of the financial costs of 5.2 MNOK, 5.2 MNOK is reported as interest costs in the accounts.
The median and the bar refer to companies in the Morning class Micro 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 Cardea AS fell by 9.7 percentage points. Comparable companies rose by a median 0.7 points. So the company did 10.4 points weaker than the industry, for reasons of its own.
Over 2 year-to-year changes Cardea AS moved the same way as comparable companies 0 times. About 25% 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 | 83.7% | 46.9% | −11.6 percentage points | +9.6 percentage points | −21.1 percentage points |
| 2025 | 74.0% | 47.7% | −9.7 percentage points | +0.7 percentage points | −10.4 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 Cardea AS. The figures stand side by side; we claim no cause.
House prices (existing homes) (indeks (2015 = 100))
House prices (existing homes) rose 5.5% in 2025; the operating margin of Cardea AS fell 9.7 percentage points.
| Measure | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House prices (existing homes), annual average | 134.5 | 141.6 | 140.8 | 144.6 | 152.5 | 158.7 (so far) |
| Change from the year before | +10.5% | +5.2% | −0.5% | +2.7% | +5.5% | +4.1% |
| The company's operating margin | – | – | 95.3% | 83.7% | 74.0% | – |
Source: SSB (07221, CC BY 4.0). Source
Policy rate (prosent)
Policy rate fell 0.20 percentage points in 2025; the operating margin of Cardea AS fell 9.7 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 | – | – | 95.3% | 83.7% | 74.0% | – |
Source: Norges Bank (IR, NLOD 2.0). Source
Construction cost index for dwellings (indeks (2015 = 100))
Construction cost index for dwellings rose 4.3% in 2025; the operating margin of Cardea AS fell 9.7 percentage points.
| Measure | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Construction cost index for dwellings, annual average | 124.2 | 135.1 | 141.1 | 146.4 | 152.7 | 158.4 (so far) |
| Change from the year before | +8.7% | +8.8% | +4.4% | +3.7% | +4.3% | +3.7% |
| The company's operating margin | – | – | 95.3% | 83.7% | 74.0% | – |
Source: SSB (08651, CC BY 4.0). Source
Consumer price index (indeks (2025 = 100))
Consumer price index rose 3.0% in 2025; the operating margin of Cardea AS fell 9.7 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 | – | – | 95.3% | 83.7% | 74.0% | – |
Source: SSB (14710, CC BY 4.0). Source
Wage index: real estate (indeks)
Wage index: real estate rose 5.2% in 2025; the operating margin of Cardea AS fell 9.7 percentage points.
| Measure | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wage index: real estate, annual average | 91.7 | 94.3 | 96.8 | 103.2 | 108.5 | 111.3 (so far) |
| Change from the year before | +5.2% | +2.9% | +2.6% | +6.5% | +5.2% | +2.6% |
| The company's operating margin | – | – | 95.3% | 83.7% | 74.0% | – |
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
Cardea AS had an operating margin of 74.0% and an equity ratio of 68.8% in 2025, and ranks 8,672 of 30,132 in Eiendom.
From 2024 to 2025: the operating margin fell from 83.7% to 74.0%.
This text is generated automatically from the 2025 accounts.
Three simple methods
The methods give between 38 MNOK and 113 MNOK.
| Method | Multiple | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| P/E | 11.3 | 61 MNOK |
| EV/EBIT | 16.6 | 113 MNOK |
| P/B | 0.9 | 38 MNOK |
| EV/EBIT: from enterprise value to equity | NOK |
|---|---|
| Enterprise value (EV) at the listed multiple | 210 MNOK |
| Enterprise value after the size adjustment | 129 MNOK |
| Less net debt (rough figure) | 16 MNOK |
| Equity value | 113 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 multiples are from the listed industry that matches the NACE code (68.1): Real Estate (Development).
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 Cardea AS?
The operating margin was 74.0% in 2025, against a median of 47.7% among companies in the Morning class Micro in the same sector. Return on assets was 6.5%.
How solid is Cardea AS?
The equity ratio was 68.8% in 2025 (median 27.9%). Debt-to-equity was 0.45 (median 2.10).
What is the liquidity of Cardea AS like?
The current ratio was 1.93 in 2025 (median 1.40).
How does Cardea AS compare in Eiendom?
Cardea AS ranks 8,672 of 30,132 in Eiendom for 2025. Among companies in the Morning class Micro it is number 6,979 of 23,905. Revenue changed by 3.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cora Invest AS |  Beaver |
8 MNOK | −167.6% | 3 |
| Fræna Kysteiendom AS | Beaver |
8 MNOK | 41.7% | 43 |
| Prosjektgruppen Eiendom AS |  Elephant |
8 MNOK | −9.3% | 50 |
| Cardea AS (this company) |  Lion |
8 MNOK | 74.0% | 59 |
| Re-Eiendom AS | Elephant |
8 MNOK | −7.0% | 25 |
| K2 Stavanger AS | Elephant |
8 MNOK | −172.9% | 49 |
| Bjørn Lund AS | Elephant |
8 MNOK | −9.2% | 32 |
| Vanadis AS | Elephant |
8 MNOK | −9.5% | 58 |
| Eiklia AS | Beaver |
8 MNOK | −2.1% | 4 |
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
3 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 Cardea AS.
Cardea 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
- Eiendom (3 companies) 3 of 3 companies in the tree have accounts with us. Sectors are sorted by the companies' own revenue, which includes sales between the group's companies.
- Negative equity
- 2 companies: Vindmøllegangen Eiendom AS, Cardea Invest AS
- Loss
- 2 companies: Vindmøllegangen Eiendom AS, Cardea Invest 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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Cardea AS you are here
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.
Ownership and roles
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Source: Central Coordinating Register, fetched 7 November 2026. Only names are shown.
- Parent company
- No parent company: owned by persons
Source: GLEIF (Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation), fetched 31 October 2026. The parent is the one the company itself reported to GLEIF.
Shareholders (2025)
- Number of shareholders
- 5
- Largest owner
- 25.0% · top three 37.5%
- Split
- companies 50% · private persons 0% · foreign 0%
- Owned from the same municipality
- 88%
- Cardea Eiendom AS · 50.0%
- Lund Foto AS · 12.5%
- Petter Lund AS · 12.5%
- Eivind Lund AS · 12.5%
- Marianne-Lund AS · 12.5%
Change 2007–2025:
25% of the shares changed owner (1 new and 1 departed owners).
New owners (companies): Cardea Eiendom AS
Departed (companies): Øystein-Lund AS
Majority owner of: Vindmøllegangen Eiendom AS (100%), Cardea Invest AS (100%)
The portfolio: 4 of the companies it owns shares in have accounts with us, 2 of them as majority owner. The average index is –. 3 have negative equity and 4 made a loss in the latest year.
Holds shares in: K37 Holding AS (8%), Cardea Invest AS (100%), Dronningens Kvarter Holding AS (32%), Vindmøllegangen Eiendom AS (100%)
The owners' shares do not add up to the company's total number of shares in the source.
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 | 88 | 55 | 59 | |
| Rank | 539 | 10,803 | 8,672 | |
| Operating margin | 95.3% | 83.7% | 74.0% | |
| Return on assets | 23.2% | 6.6% | 6.5% | |
| Equity ratio | 70.6% | 69.2% | 68.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.96 | 2.50 | 1.93 | |
| Revenue growth | – | −69.0% | 3.8% |
Accounts
From the Brønnøysund Register Centre, in the company's reporting currency (NOK).
| Key figure | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating revenue | 26.2 MNOK | 8.1 MNOK | 8.4 MNOK |
| Operating profit | 24.9 MNOK | 6.8 MNOK | 6.2 MNOK |
| Profit before tax | 23.6 MNOK | 2.5 MNOK | 1.4 MNOK |
| Tax expense | 0.8 MNOK | 0.3 MNOK | 0.3 MNOK |
| Net profit | 22.9 MNOK | 2.2 MNOK | 1.1 MNOK |
| Financial expenses | 1.5 MNOK | 4.4 MNOK | 5.2 MNOK |
| Total assets | 108.4 MNOK | 104.8 MNOK | 100.2 MNOK |
| Current assets | 37.7 MNOK | 31.1 MNOK | 23.6 MNOK |
| Equity | 76.5 MNOK | 72.5 MNOK | 69.0 MNOK |
| Retained earnings | 67.9 MNOK | 63.9 MNOK | 60.3 MNOK |
| Total liabilities | 31.9 MNOK | 32.2 MNOK | 31.3 MNOK |
| Current liabilities | 12.7 MNOK | 12.4 MNOK | 12.2 MNOK |
Source: Brønnøysund Register Centre (Register of Company Accounts), fetched 9 November 2026, accounts id 7127579.
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