HERNES AS
Score · fiscal year 2025
66of 100
How to read this: the company is ahead of 81 % of small companies in the same sector in 2025. What does this mean?
Rank: 6,200 of 32,581 · Bygg og anlegg
Profile
Lion · Leader
High profitability, high solidity
Position against comparable companies in 2025, not a verdict on the company. Based on profitability 59 and solidity 89 out of 100 among small companies in the same sector in 2025. Methodology
Against the sector
HERNES AS is 16 points above the median for small companies in the same sector in 2025.
Median score 50 among 31,471 companies.
The numbers behind the score
| Measure | Company | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | – | 3.7% |
| Profit margin | – | 3.4% |
| Return on assets | 9.8% | 5.7% |
| Equity ratio | 90.5% | 36.5% |
| Debt-to-equity | 0.11 | 1.20 |
| Current ratio | 1.18 | 1.45 |
| Revenue growth | – | 3.0% |
The median and “ahead of” refer to small companies in the same sector in 2025. The bar shows the share of companies the figure is ahead of.
With an index of 66, HERNES AS does better than 81% of small companies in the same sector (31,719 companies) in 2025.
Score 2023–2025
- HERNES AS
- Median: small companies in the same sector
HERNES AS has a score of 66 for 2025, rank 6,200 of 32,581 in the sector.
Strongest: Solidity: percentile 89 against peers, equity ratio 90.5% against a median of 36.5%. Consistency: percentile 70 against peers.
Weakest: Liquidity: percentile 38 against peers, current ratio 1.18 against a median of 1.45.
Worth a closer look
- What lies behind weak liquidity, 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
What the numbers say
HERNES AS had an operating margin of – and an equity ratio of 90.5% in 2025, and ranks 6,200 of 32,581 in Bygg og anlegg.
No large changes in the key figures from 2024 to 2025.
This text is generated automatically from the 2025 accounts.
Three simple methods
The methods give between 1 MNOK and 81 MNOK.
| Method | Multiple | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| P/E | 10.0 | 1 MNOK |
| EV/EBIT | 8.0 | not meaningful |
| P/B | 1.0 | 81 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 93.8% 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
- watch Revenue not reported
- watch No revenue but large assets
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 2.4%. 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 | 59 | weight 30% |
|---|---|---|
| Solidity | 89 | weight 25% |
| Liquidity | 38 | weight 15% |
| Growth | – | no data, left out |
| Consistency | 70 | weight 15% |
Durability: 65 (average over 3 years)
Index version 2. Data completeness 85%: the share of the weights that had data.
Questions and answers
How profitable is HERNES AS?
The operating margin was – in 2025, against a median of 3.7% among small companies in the same sector. Return on assets was 9.8%.
How solid is HERNES AS?
The equity ratio was 90.5% in 2025 (median 36.5%). Debt-to-equity was 0.11 (median 1.20).
What is the liquidity of HERNES AS like?
The current ratio was 1.18 in 2025 (median 1.45).
How does HERNES AS compare in Bygg og anlegg?
HERNES AS ranks 6,200 of 32,581 in Bygg og anlegg for 2025. Among companies of the same size (small companies) it ranks 6,018 of 31,719.
Group accounts · 2023
65 of 100
Rank 467 of 1810 groups with group accounts. Groups are ranked only against each other, not against single companies.
- Operating revenue, group
- 106 MNOK
- Operating profit, group
- −4 MNOK
- Profit before tax, group
- −5 MNOK
- Total assets, group
- 169 MNOK
- Equity, group
- 142 MNOK
| Key figure | The group | The company alone (2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | −4.2% | – |
| Return on assets | −1.2% | – |
| Equity ratio | 84.3% | – |
| Current ratio | 3.58 | – |
| Revenue growth | – | – |
Same formulas and weights as the company index. Group and company are never added together, and the group accounts are not part of sector averages or company rankings.
Source: Brønnøysund Register Centre, group accounts 2023 (open data, NLOD 2.0).
We do not show the group structure, because open data does not say who owns whom.
From the Central Coordinating Register
- Org. no.
- 988662658
- Legal form
- AS
- Sector
- Bygg og anlegg (43.120)
- Size tier
- small
- Employees
- 0–4 (not registered)
- Founded
- 2 September 2005 21 years in operation
- Share capital
- 2.00 MNOK
- Business address
- Sutterøygata 16, 7502 STJØRDAL
- Municipality
- Stjørdal rank 11–20 of 27 in KOSTRA group 9
- Latest accounts filed
- 2025
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
- Inger Åse Brandal Hernes
- Chair of the board
- Jon Petter Hernes
- Deputy member
- Lillian Hernes
- Auditor
- BDO AS
Source: Central Coordinating Register, fetched 29 October 2026. Only names are shown.
Owners and shareholdings will appear here once the shareholder data extract is in place.
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Figures last fetched 29 October 2026.
Year by year · 2023–2025
| Key figure | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index | 67 | 61 | 66 | |
| Rank | 6,479 | 8,619 | 6,200 | |
| Operating margin | – | – | – | |
| Return on assets | 0.5% | 9.5% | 9.8% | |
| Equity ratio | 95.9% | 87.0% | 90.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.63 | 0.84 | 1.18 | |
| Revenue growth | – | – | – |
Accounts
From the Brønnøysund Register Centre, in the company's reporting currency (NOK).
| Key figure | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating revenue | – | – | – |
| Operating profit | −0.2 MNOK | −0.1 MNOK | −0.6 MNOK |
| Profit before tax | 0.4 MNOK | 9.2 MNOK | 0.7 MNOK |
| Net profit | 0.3 MNOK | 7.1 MNOK | 0.1 MNOK |
| Financial expenses | 0.0 MNOK | – | 8.0 MNOK |
| Total assets | 82.9 MNOK | 96.1 MNOK | 89.5 MNOK |
| Current assets | 5.5 MNOK | 10.5 MNOK | 10.1 MNOK |
| Equity | 79.5 MNOK | 83.6 MNOK | 81.0 MNOK |
| Retained earnings | 69.6 MNOK | 73.7 MNOK | 71.1 MNOK |
| Total liabilities | 3.4 MNOK | 12.5 MNOK | 8.5 MNOK |
| Current liabilities | 3.4 MNOK | 12.5 MNOK | 8.5 MNOK |
Source: Brønnøysund Register Centre (Register of Company Accounts), fetched 29 October 2026, accounts id 7108907.
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