Private-sector profitability increased in Sweden in the third quarter of 2025, new data from Statistics Sweden has shown.
According to the data, both the average operating margin and the profit share of value added were up on the corresponding period a year ago, while gross fixed capital formation and investment in inventories also increased, at current prices.
Total value added increased by 4.7% at current prices and by 4.3% at constant prices, the data showed, while production volume increased by 2.9%, and intermediate consumption increased by 2.2%.
The profit share of value added amounted to 29.3%, marking an increase of 1.8 percentage points. Gross operating surplus grew by 11.7% and compensation of employees rose by 2.1%, again at current prices.
Operating profit up
Operating profit rose by 12.0%, with operating margin amounting to 7.6%, an increase of 0.6 percentage points compared to the same quarter the previous year. Gross fixed capital formation increased by 9.1% at current prices, with the largest contribution coming from investments in buildings and construction other than dwellings.
Elsewhere, Statistics Sweden data showed that inventories increased by SEK 5.6 billion (€510 million) compared with the previous quarter. This indicates that the speed of stock building is decelerating, as the increase in inventories in the same quarter of the previous year amounted to SEK 9.8 billion at constant prices.
‘Quarterly economic statistics covers private sector profitability, value added, gross fixed capital formation and changes in inventories,’ Statistics Sweden noted. ‘The statistics are used as input to the quarterly GDP, and can also be used as individual business cycle indicators.’
Statistics Sweden plans to publish its next quarterly economic statistics bulletin in February 2026.
Inflation rate
Separate recent data from Statistics Sweden indicates that the inflation rate stood at 0.9% in October 2025, on a par with the previous month. The inflation rate according to the CPIF (consumer price index with fixed interest rate) stood at 3.1% in October, again identical to the previous month.
“Food prices rose in October after falling for two consecutive months” commented Filip Hellberg, statistician at Statistics Sweden. Read more here and here.
