About Super Companies
To achieve Super Company status you not only have to excel in one particular business area but also meet several other demanding criteria. A super company should have long-term sales growth and sustainable profitability, be strategically sound financially while being efficient in resource management.
Bisnode identifies and ranks Sweden’s Super Companies based on the financial performance of Swedish limited companies. The model takes into account a company's growth, profit, yield, efficiency, capital structure and financing over a four-year period. Of all the limited companies, only 728 made it to the 2018 top list.
Six parameters are used to assess the financial performance of each company, which is then is compared with reference values based on the performance of all other similar sized companies companies with similar business activities. The assessment is relative, so that the best companies can be identified regardless of economic upturn or downturn. Size is of no consequence either, the best performing companies are found among both large and small companies. The assessment is based on the latest four-year period for all companies that have existed since 2007. So the list includes companies that have not only shown better growth during a four-year period than other comparable companies, but also greater profit and yield, and better efficiency and capital structure than other comparable companies. On top of this, the companies also have to show sales of at least SEK 10 million in the past year.
The list is compiled by Per Weidenman, analyst at Bisnode, who has presented the Super Company of the Year for 14 years together with business magazine Veckans Affärer.
This year's newcomers include not only Axelent but other strong brands like Volvo Trucks and FLX TV (Felix Herngren’s production company).
*Source: Bisnode
