Top 75 contractors by contracting operating margin | Features

Top 75 contractors by contracting operating margin
		%
1	First Engineering†	12.4
2	Rydon Holdings	8.0
3	Kennedy Construction Group†	7.4
4	Severfield-Rowen Group	6.4
5	Keller Group	6.2
6	Henry Boot	5.6
7	Mitie Group†	5.5
8	ARM Group†	5.3
9	Ringway Group†	4.6
10	Pipeline Constructors†	4.4
11	RG Carter Holdings	4.4
12	Balfour Beatty	4.2
13	Seddon Group	3.8
14	R O‘Rourke	3.6
15	Bowmer & Kirkland	3.4
16	Wrekin Group	3.0
17	HBG/Edmund Nuttall	2.8
18	Planned Maintenance†	2.7
19	Styles & Wood†	2.7
20	Staveley Industries†	2.6
21	McNicholas†	2.5
22	May Gurney Group	2.4
23	Christiani & Nielsen	2.4
24	Morrison Construction	2.1
25	Osborne	2.1
26	Jarvis	2.0
27	McNicholas Construction	2.0
28	Shepherd Building Group	1.9
29	Dew Pitchmastic	1.9
30	NG Bailey†	1.6
31	Norwest Holst	1.6
32	Fitzpatrick	1.6
33	Interior Services Group†	1.5
34	Alfred McAlpine	1.5
35	Wates Construction	1.5
36	Willmott Dixon†	1.4
37	R Mansell	1.4
38	Peterhouse	1.4
39	Lorne Stewart†	1.2
40	Tilbury Douglas	1.2
41	Carillion	1.1
42	Kvaerner Construction	1.1
43	YJL	1.1
44	Simons Group	1.1
45	Biwater	1.1
46	Amec	1.0
47	SDC Holdings	1.0
48	Bovis Construction Group	0.9
49	Mowlem	0.9
50	Galliford	0.8
51	EBC Group	0.7
52	Allen	0.6
53	Try Group	0.6
54	Morgan Sindall	0.6
55	J Murphy & Sons	0.6
56	Miller Group	0.6
57	Ballast Wiltshier	0.6
58	Birse Group	0.5
59	Dean & Dyball	0.5
60	MJ Gleeson Group	0.5
61	Clugston Group	0.5
62	Taylor Woodrow	0.3
63	Crest Nicholson	0.3
64	Drake & Scull Group†	0.3
65	Kier Group	0.3
66	Bryant Group	0.2
67	Haymills	0.2
68	Sisk	0.1
69	Costain Group	0.0
70	Amey	0.0
71	Llewellyn Management Services	0.0
72	John Laing	-0.3
73	Newarthill	-0.3
74	Sunley Turriff Holdings	-1.4
75	Barr	-1.7
	Average	2.0
	Weighted average	1.8
	Weighted average 1998	1.3
Key Full split of activities not provided in reports and accounts, therefore turnover and/or profits assigned to contracting Total profit refers to pre-tax profit. Splits refer in most cases to operating profit before exceptional items. Total of splits plus non-interest = pre-tax profit **Net interest payments/receipts, exceptional, and other non-trading income or losses †Contracting is primarily in M&E, FM, repair and maintenance and/or planned maintenance ††Turnover figures estimated/company estimate †††Profit figures estimated §Housing profit is pre-tax