TOOLS AS
Score · fiscal year 2025
66of 100
How to read this: the company is ahead of 85 % of large companies in the same sector in 2025. What does this mean?
Rank: 7,576 of 38,671 · Handel
Profile
Lion · Leader
High profitability, high solidity
Position against comparable companies in 2025, not a verdict on the company. Based on profitability 53 and solidity 76 out of 100 among large companies in the same sector in 2025. Methodology
Against the sector
TOOLS AS is 16 points above the median for large companies in the same sector in 2025.
Median score 50 among 362 companies.
Against large companies in the same sector in 2025: operating margin 2.7% (median 2.1%) and equity ratio 52.9% (median 34.6%).
The numbers behind the score
| Measure | Company | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Operating revenue | 2,638 MNOK | 2,073 MNOK |
| Operating margin | 2.7% | 2.1% |
| Profit margin | 2.2% | 2.1% |
| Return on assets | 7.6% | 8.4% |
| Equity ratio | 52.9% | 34.6% |
| Debt-to-equity | 0.89 | 1.85 |
| Current ratio | 2.12 | 1.27 |
| Revenue growth | 9.7% | 6.5% |
| Revenue per employee | 4.27 MNOK | 15.47 MNOK |
The median and “ahead of” refer to large companies in the same sector in 2025. The bar shows the share of companies the figure is ahead of.
With an index of 66, TOOLS AS does better than 85% of large companies in the same sector (362 companies) in 2025.
Score 2023–2025
- TOOLS AS
- Median: large companies in the same sector
TOOLS AS has a score of 66 for 2025, rank 7,576 of 38,671 in the sector.
Strongest: Liquidity: percentile 85 against peers, current ratio 2.12 against a median of 1.27. Solidity: percentile 76 against peers, equity ratio 52.9% against a median of 34.6%.
No area is clearly below its peers.
Written by fixed rules from the figures. Describes the figures, does not explain causes. Not investment or financial advice. How the summary is made
What the numbers say
TOOLS AS had an operating margin of 2.7% and an equity ratio of 52.9% in 2025, and ranks 7,576 of 38,671 in Handel.
From 2024 to 2025: went from a loss to a profit before tax and the equity ratio rose from 32.6% to 52.9%.
This text is generated automatically from the 2025 accounts.
Three simple methods
The methods give between 440 MNOK and 665 MNOK.
| Method | Multiple | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| P/E | 10.0 | 440 MNOK |
| EV/EBIT | 8.0 | 504 MNOK |
| P/B | 1.0 | 665 MNOK |
A mechanical estimate from public accounts, not advice. Mechanical estimate from public accounts with fixed multiples. Not a valuation and not advice to buy or sell. The multiples are provisional default values and must be adjusted per sector before the figures are used for anything. See the calculation
Worth a closer look
No rules were triggered for this year.
Indications based on the latest annual accounts from open data. Not investment or financial advice.
Financial costs were 6.4% 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.
Data quality
No anomalies found in the figures.
Scenario analysis: the sector's weakest year
We have no accounts for 2017, the sector's weakest year, for this company.
The sector's weakest year was 2017, with a median operating margin of −65.6%. Based on the 11 fiscal years we have. The analysis grows as more years are fetched or imported. Methodology
What the score is made of
| Profitability | 53 | weight 30% |
|---|---|---|
| Solidity | 76 | weight 25% |
| Liquidity | 85 | weight 15% |
| Growth | 65 | weight 15% |
| Consistency | 55 | weight 15% |
Durability: 61 (average over 3 years)
Index version 2. Data completeness 100%: the share of the weights that had data.
Questions and answers
How profitable is TOOLS AS?
The operating margin was 2.7% in 2025, against a median of 2.1% among large companies in the same sector. Return on assets was 7.6%.
How solid is TOOLS AS?
The equity ratio was 52.9% in 2025 (median 34.6%). Debt-to-equity was 0.89 (median 1.85).
What is the liquidity of TOOLS AS like?
The current ratio was 2.12 in 2025 (median 1.27).
How does TOOLS AS compare in Handel?
TOOLS AS ranks 7,576 of 38,671 in Handel for 2025. Among companies of the same size (large companies) it ranks 55 of 362. Revenue changed by 9.7% from the year before.
Public contracts
- Contracts awarded since 2024
- 13
- in 11 notices (lots counted separately)
- Total awarded value since 2024
- value not stated
- 1 contracts without a stated value are not in the total.
- Framework agreements
- 12
- Left out of the total: the value is a ceiling, not actual spend.
| Date | Buyer | Notice | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2026 | GJØVIK KOMMUNE FELLESENHET ANSKAFFELSER | RA-26-012-ALLE Rammeavtale for arbeidstøy, fottøy og verneutstyr Gjøvikregionen | 10.0 MNOK (framework) |
| 1 July 2026 | Vestfold fylkeskommune | Arbeidstøy, sko og verneutstyr | 4.0 MNOK (framework) |
| 19 June 2026 | Den Norske Opera & Ballett | 23045 - Anskaffelse Feste Material og Håndverktøy | 2.0 MNOK (framework) |
| 7 May 2026 | Stiftelsen Tradebroker | Kjøp av drifts- og vedlikeholdsmateriell (DVH) | 2,500.0 MNOK (framework) |
| 26 February 2026 | GKI Grenlandskommunenes Innkjøpsenhet | Arbeidstøy og fottøy - Helse og Oppvekst | 20.0 MNOK (framework) |
| 29 September 2025 | Vestland fylkeskommune | Arbeidstøy - rammeavtale for VLFK | 1.4 MNOK (framework) |
| 4 July 2025 | Norsk nukleær dekommisjonering (NND) | Arbeidsklær | 3.0 MNOK (framework) (2 lots) |
| 1 July 2025 | NIBIO, Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi | 24/01368 Rammeavtale for kjøp av arbeidsklær og verneutstyr til NIBIO | 5.0 MNOK (framework) |
| 19 December 2024 | Ålesund brannvesen KF | Anskaffelse - Vernebekledning og feierbekledning til brannvesenet, 2023 | value not stated (2 lots) |
| 22 January 2024 | FREVAR KF | Jernvarer | value not stated |
Based on notices in Doffin. Does not show call-offs under framework agreements or purchases below the publication threshold. Values are as stated by the buyer.
Source: Doffin (DFØ), fetched 28 October 2026. Winners are matched on organisation number.
Contains data under the Norwegian licence for public data (NLOD 2.0) made available by Doffin/the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ). NLOD 2.0
From the Central Coordinating Register
- Org. no.
- 980341097
- Legal form
- AS
- Sector
- Handel (46.900)
- Size tier
- large
- Employees
- 618 registered 10 October 2026
- Founded
- 5 November 1998 27 years in operation
- Share capital
- 0.25 MNOK
- Business address
- Trollåsveien 6, 1414 TROLLÅSEN (NORDRE FOLLO)
- Municipality
- Nordre Follo rank 1 of 10 in KOSTRA group 11
- Latest accounts filed
- 2025
- Website
- www.tools.no
- LEI
- 5493002495ZT1GBPPJ97 not renewed (lapsed)
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
- Chief executive
- Kjell Vidar Dokken
- Chair of the board
- Johan Samuel Christer Alteborg
- Board member
- Håkan Olof Wanselius
- Board member
- Irene Christina Wisenborn Bellander
- Auditor
- KPMG AS
Source: Central Coordinating Register, fetched 29 October 2026. Only names are shown.
- Parent company
- Alligo Holding AB (Sweden)
Foreign-owned according to GLEIF.
Source: GLEIF (Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation), fetched 29 October 2026. The parent is the one the company itself reported to GLEIF.
Owners and shareholdings will appear here once the shareholder data extract is in place.
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Figures last fetched 28 October 2026.
Year by year · 2023–2025
| Key figure | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index | 71 | 47 | 66 | |
| Rank | 5,669 | 21,097 | 7,576 | |
| Operating margin | 3.7% | 0.4% | 2.7% | |
| Return on assets | 26.5% | 12.7% | 7.6% | |
| Equity ratio | 36.0% | 32.6% | 52.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.53 | 1.41 | 2.12 | |
| Revenue growth | – | 3.9% | 9.7% |
Accounts
From the Brønnøysund Register Centre, in the company's reporting currency (NOK).
| Key figure | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating revenue | 2,315.6 MNOK | 2,405.1 MNOK | 2,638.4 MNOK |
| Operating profit | 84.7 MNOK | 8.5 MNOK | 71.4 MNOK |
| Profit before tax | 65.2 MNOK | −9.3 MNOK | 57.4 MNOK |
| Net profit | 49.5 MNOK | −7.2 MNOK | 44.0 MNOK |
| Financial expenses | 217.9 MNOK | 157.2 MNOK | 38.2 MNOK |
| Total assets | 1,069.7 MNOK | 1,163.2 MNOK | 1,258.4 MNOK |
| Current assets | 906.4 MNOK | 975.3 MNOK | 1,064.8 MNOK |
| Equity | 385.2 MNOK | 379.6 MNOK | 665.4 MNOK |
| Retained earnings | 291.5 MNOK | 284.3 MNOK | 447.3 MNOK |
| Total liabilities | 684.4 MNOK | 783.6 MNOK | 593.0 MNOK |
| Current liabilities | 592.3 MNOK | 693.6 MNOK | 503.0 MNOK |
Source: Brønnøysund Register Centre (Register of Company Accounts), fetched 28 October 2026, accounts id 6663724.
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