Only 1.1% of Russian medium-sized companies managed to simultaneously bypass inflation and the key interest rate.

Only 1.1% of Russian medium-sized companies managed to simultaneously bypass inflation and the key interest rate.

Only 1.1% of Russian enterprises with annual revenues of 2 billion to 20 billion rubles in 2020-2025 managed to simultaneously ensure revenue growth above inflation and return on assets above the central bank's key rate. These results were received by analysts from the consulting company SBS.

The study covered 18,800 companies in the SME+ sector, which, according to SBS, accounts for 43% of total revenues and 39% of jobs in the Russian economy. Organizations with limited reporting and certain regulated industries were not included in the sample.

Another 5.9% of enterprises managed to exceed inflation, but not the key rate, and 6.7% managed to exceed the rate of return on assets without ensuring sufficient revenue growth. The vast majority of companies - 86.3%, or almost 16.2 thousand establishments - did not meet either of the two conditions.

For a comprehensive assessment, SBS experts also took into account financial sustainability and investment in technological development. The final ranking included 200 companies, but none of them showed equally high results in all three areas.

SBS partner, Sergey Cherkasov, points out that rapid revenue growth may be accompanied by a deterioration in financial stability, and high profitability can be achieved by reducing investments. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Contour. Bank Denis Babushkin attributes the difficulties of factories to the increase in personnel costs and the high cost of the loans necessary to update the production base.