Which contractors are most profitable?

Which contractors have turned in the best results so far this year? Our league table will tell you. It ranks contractors according to profit before tax, and also includes figures for turnover, and performance in the previous financial year.

Click on the company name for more detailed information about the company and its latest results.

We'll be updating this league table throughout the results season, so keep coming back to check the latest position of your company.

	Company	PBT £m 2007	PBT £m 2006	T/O £m 2007	T/O £m 2007
1	Balfour Beatty	157	109	7,488	5,506
2	Keller	103	84	955	858
3	Carillion	94	48	3,952	3,512
4	Interserve	69	15	1,738	1,408
5	Morgan Sindall	62	48	2,115	1,497
6	HBG UK	49	42	1,000	880
7	Vinci UK	40	32	770	630
8	Severfield Rowen	38	30	300	300
7	Bowmer & Kirkland	37	28	830	710
9	Skanska UK*	33	36	1,309	910
10	Rok	31	22	950	689
11	Sir Robert McAlpine	27	36	1,300	880
12	Costain	20	(62)	878	886
13	Edmund Nuttall	19	20	590	470
14	Mears	15	12	305	241
15	Styles & Wood	12	8	320	270

Notes
All results are the most recent full-year results available.
The table only contains companies with turnovers in excess of £250m where construction operations account for at least half of turnover.
Skanska UK's PBT figure is Earnings Before Tax, the profitability easure submitted to the Swedish stock exchange, where Skanska's parent is listed. It is almost identical to PBT.

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