Industry overview
The Repair of computers and personal and household goods sector across EU27 average comprises approximately 187,023 enterprises employing about 176,871 people and generating €21.5 bn in net turnover in 2020. The average enterprise size is – employees per firm. This is a useful yardstick when assessing whether your own operation sits within the typical scale band of the sector.
Profitability
With a healthy operating margin of 13.6% of revenue in 2020, the sector reports €2.9 bn of gross operating surplus (Eurostat's EBITDA-equivalent, before depreciation). This figure provides the headline benchmark against which an individual operator can sanity-check their own bottom line, values significantly below indicate cost or pricing pressure, those above suggest competitive advantage worth defending.
Cost structure
The Repair of computers and personal and household goods cost mix is reasonably balanced: cost of revenue at 64.3%, personnel at 22.7% and energy at – of turnover. Without a single dominant cost driver, margin management requires attention across the full operating envelope rather than focus on any one line.
Trend & trajectory
Over the period 2012 to 2020 the operating margin moved from 13.5% to 13.6% (+0.1 percentage points), broadly stable performance. Sectors with stable or improving margins tend to reflect successful pass-through of input costs and disciplined capacity management; declining margins typically point to either over-supply or a structural cost squeeze that warrants strategic review.