CARL ZEISS AS
Score · fiscal year 2025
35of 100
How to read this: the company is ahead of 19 % of medium-sized companies in the same sector in 2025. What does this mean?
Rank: 28,815 of 38,669 · Handel
Profile
Cheetah · Sprinter
High profitability, lower solidity
Position against comparable companies in 2025, not a verdict on the company. Based on profitability 73 and solidity 13 out of 100 among medium-sized companies in the same sector in 2025. Methodology
Against the sector
CARL ZEISS AS is 14 points below the median for medium-sized companies in the same sector in 2025.
Median score 49 among 2,198 companies.
Against medium-sized companies in the same sector in 2025: operating margin 8.3% (median 3.2%) and equity ratio 12.6% (median 32.6%).
The numbers behind the score
| Measure | Company | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Operating revenue | 164 MNOK | 173 MNOK |
| Operating margin | 8.3% | 3.2% |
| Profit margin | 8.7% | 3.2% |
| Return on assets | 14.9% | 11.6% |
| Equity ratio | 12.6% | 32.6% |
| Debt-to-equity | 6.92 | 2.03 |
| Current ratio | 1.12 | 1.38 |
| Revenue growth | −15.0% | 6.8% |
| Revenue per employee | 9.08 MNOK | 6.45 MNOK |
The median and “ahead of” refer to medium-sized companies in the same sector in 2025. The bar shows the share of companies the figure is ahead of.
With an index of 35, CARL ZEISS AS does better than 19% of medium-sized companies in the same sector (2,203 companies) in 2025.
Score 2023–2025
- CARL ZEISS AS
- Median: medium-sized companies in the same sector
CARL ZEISS AS has a score of 35 for 2025, rank 28,815 of 38,669 in the sector.
Strongest: Profitability: percentile 73 against peers, operating margin 8.3% against a median of 3.2%.
Weakest: Growth: percentile 6 against peers, revenue growth −15.0% against a median of 6.8%. Solidity: percentile 13 against peers, equity ratio 12.6% against a median of 32.6%.
Worth a closer look
- What lies behind weak growth, and will it last?
- What lies behind weak solidity, 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
CARL ZEISS AS had an operating margin of 8.3% and an equity ratio of 12.6% in 2025, and ranks 28,815 of 38,669 in Handel.
From 2024 to 2025: the operating margin rose from 4.8% to 8.3% and revenue fell by 15%.
This text is generated automatically from the 2025 accounts.
Three simple methods
The methods give between 13 MNOK and 110 MNOK.
| Method | Multiple | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| P/E | 10.0 | 110 MNOK |
| EV/EBIT | 8.0 | 110 MNOK |
| P/B | 1.0 | 13 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 1.0% 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 | 73 | weight 30% |
|---|---|---|
| Solidity | 13 | weight 25% |
| Liquidity | 27 | weight 15% |
| Growth | 6 | weight 15% |
| Consistency | 36 | weight 15% |
Durability: 43 (average over 3 years)
Index version 2. Data completeness 100%: the share of the weights that had data.
Questions and answers
How profitable is CARL ZEISS AS?
The operating margin was 8.3% in 2025, against a median of 3.2% among medium-sized companies in the same sector. Return on assets was 14.9%.
How solid is CARL ZEISS AS?
The equity ratio was 12.6% in 2025 (median 32.6%). Debt-to-equity was 6.92 (median 2.03).
What is the liquidity of CARL ZEISS AS like?
The current ratio was 1.12 in 2025 (median 1.38).
How does CARL ZEISS AS compare in Handel?
CARL ZEISS AS ranks 28,815 of 38,669 in Handel for 2025. Among companies of the same size (medium-sized companies) it ranks 1,776 of 2,203. Revenue changed by −15.0% from the year before.
Public contracts
- Contracts awarded since 2024
- 4
- Total awarded value since 2024
- 2.8 MNOK
- 1 contracts without a stated value are not in the total.
- Framework agreements
- 1
- Left out of the total: the value is a ceiling, not actual spend.
| Date | Buyer | Notice | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 October 2026 | Universitetet i Oslo | Snittskannersystem | 2.8 MNOK |
| 30 March 2026 | UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN | ANSK-25-0606 Felt-emisjons skanningelektronmikroskop (FESEM) | 0.0 MNOK |
| 2 June 2025 | NTNU | (25069) Konfokal mikroskop | 0.5 MEUR |
| 12 December 2024 | SYKEHUSINNKJØP HF | Sterile trekk til medisinsk utstyr til foretakene i Helse Vest | value not stated |
| 21 September 2023 | Universitetet i Oslo | Feltemisjon (FE) skanningelektronmikroskop | 0.0 MNOK |
| 31 August 2023 | UiT Norges arktiske universitet | Konfokalmikroskop | 4.6 MNOK |
| 14 August 2023 | Universitetet i Oslo | Lysmikroskop | 0.0 MNOK |
| 15 March 2023 | Universitetet i Oslo | Digital scanner for geological material | 1.5 MNOK |
| 10 December 2020 | Norges geologiske undersøkelse (NGU) | Procurement of a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) | 9.0 MNOK |
| 30 July 2020 | UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN | ANSK-0042-20 Felt Emisjons Skanningelektronmikroskop (FeSEM) | 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.
- 991011552
- Legal form
- AS
- Sector
- Handel (46.430)
- Size tier
- medium
- Employees
- 18 registered 10 August 2026
- Founded
- 23 February 2007 19 years in operation
- Share capital
- 0.10 MNOK
- Business address
- Sørumsgata 5, 2000 LILLESTRØM
- Municipality
- Lillestrøm rank 7 of 11 in KOSTRA group 12
- Latest accounts filed
- 2025
- Website
- www.zeiss.no
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
- Lena Edlund
- Chair of the board
- Lena Edlund
- Board member
- Eva Elisabeth Bromels Callmar
- Auditor
- PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS 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 | 44 | 49 | 35 | |
| Rank | 20,747 | 19,154 | 28,815 | |
| Operating margin | 4.1% | 4.8% | 8.3% | |
| Return on assets | 8.7% | 11.0% | 14.9% | |
| Equity ratio | 23.0% | 19.9% | 12.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.28 | 1.23 | 1.12 | |
| Revenue growth | – | 31.7% | −15.0% |
Accounts
From the Brønnøysund Register Centre, in the company's reporting currency (NOK).
| Key figure | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating revenue | 146.2 MNOK | 192.5 MNOK | 163.5 MNOK |
| Operating profit | 5.9 MNOK | 9.3 MNOK | 13.6 MNOK |
| Profit before tax | 6.0 MNOK | 9.6 MNOK | 14.2 MNOK |
| Net profit | 4.6 MNOK | 7.4 MNOK | 11.0 MNOK |
| Financial expenses | 1.3 MNOK | 0.9 MNOK | 0.8 MNOK |
| Total assets | 84.5 MNOK | 95.2 MNOK | 101.0 MNOK |
| Current assets | 83.2 MNOK | 93.6 MNOK | 99.0 MNOK |
| Equity | 19.4 MNOK | 19.0 MNOK | 12.8 MNOK |
| Retained earnings | 18.7 MNOK | 18.3 MNOK | 12.1 MNOK |
| Total liabilities | 65.1 MNOK | 76.2 MNOK | 88.2 MNOK |
| Current liabilities | 65.1 MNOK | 76.2 MNOK | 88.2 MNOK |
Source: Brønnøysund Register Centre (Register of Company Accounts), fetched 29 October 2026, accounts id 6871248.
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