Compare key figures with the industry

Compares the company’s key figures with its industry (Statistics Sweden’s industry key figures, branschnyckeltal), fiscal year by fiscal year. For each year and key figure you get the company’s value, the industry’s lower quartile, median and upper quartile, and where the company falls among them.

years sets how many fiscal years are returned, newest first (1-10, default 5). With an API key, names (name, group.sniName) are in Swedish.

Key figures

The company’s figures are calculated from its annual report with Statistics Sweden’s definitions and closing balances, so they are comparable with the industry’s quartiles. They can differ from the key figures in the annual report financials, which follow other definitions.

• Adjusted equity is equity plus untaxed reserves after corporate tax. Net result is the result after financial items, after corporate tax.
• value is null when the annual report lacks an item or a denominator is zero or negative.
• higherIsBetter is false only for DebtEquityRatio, where a lower value is stronger.

Position and group

• position is BelowLowerQuartile, LowerQuartileToMedian, MedianToUpperQuartile or AboveUpperQuartile. It is null when the company has no value or the industry has no figure.
• group (per key figure) describes the companies compared with:
  • the SNI version and code;
  • the size class by employees (minEmployees and maxEmployees; both null means all sizes, and maxEmployees null means at least minEmployees);
  • the year and the number of companies.
• The code is the company’s main industry code when the fiscal year ended. A figure the industry key figures do not have for the 5-digit code is compared with its 4, 3 or 2-digit group, so sniDigits can differ between key figures. The size class is the narrowest one holding the year’s employees, otherwise all sizes.

Years

• A fiscal year is compared with the industry figures for the calendar year it ended in (scbYear).
• A fiscal year newer than the latest published year (latestScbYear) is compared with that latest year, and scbYearIsFiscalYear is false.
• The industry figures describe companies with net sales. A year without net sales has comparable false: its figures are returned, without positions.
• covered is false, with notCoveredReason, for legal forms without industry key figures, such as sole traders and partnerships.