Information agency Credinform represents a ranking of the engineering construction companies in Saint Petersburg. Companies engaged in construction of engineering communications for water supply, sewerage and gas supply with the largest volume of annual revenue (TOP 10 and TOP 100) were selected for the ranking, according to the data from the Statistical Register and the Federal Tax Service for the latest available periods (2018 - 2020). They were ranked by the return on the authorized capital (Table 1). The selection and analysis were based on the data of the Information and Analytical system Globas.

Return on the authorized capital (%) indicates the efficiency of the authorized capital use and shows the amount of net profit accounting for one rouble of the authorized capital.

The higher is the indicator, the more efficient is the usage of capital contributed to the authorized fund. However, it is necessary to consider that too high values, exceeding in several times the average values for economy or sector may indicate low authorized capital at higher net profit.

For the most complete and objective view of the financial condition of the enterprise, it is necessary to pay attention to the complex of indicators and financial ratios of the company.

Table 1. Net profit, revenue, return on the authorized capital and solvency index Globas of the engineering construction companies in Saint Petersburg (TOP 10)

Name, INN	Revenue, billion RUB		Net profit (loss), billion RUB		Return on the authorized capital, %		Solvency index Globas
	2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
OOO ROSSBILDING INN 2130032913	2,11	4,32	0,22	0,86	1 465 327	5 707 780	165 Superior
LLC INTERLINE ENGINEERING INN 7805412169	1,71	3,57	0,36	0,72	2 273 438	4 515 756	150 Superior
LLC STROIGAZKOMPLEKT INN 0601003655	4,78	2,04	0,34	0,06	3 395 940	598 020	216 Strong
LLC PERVIY TREST INN 7816644073	2,38	2,09	0,01	0,02	49 487	53 880	291 Medium
LLC GAZPROM INVESGASIFICATION INN 7810170130	7,49	5,57	-1,75	16,66	-4 475	42 682	267 Medium
JSC STROITRANSNEFTEGZ INN 7714572888	164,18	71,39	5,36	1,60	92 406	27 531	271 Medium
LLC GAZPROM INVEST INN 7810483334	48,41	39,68	-1,38	5,44	-741	2 916	257 Medium
LLC REPAIR AND CONSTRUCTION OF PR AND SS NETWORKS INN 4725006039	2,57	1,93	0,03	0,04	8	9	230 Strong
LLC TONNELGEOSTROI INN 7825665993	1,56	3,03	0,11	0,06	11	6	225 Strong
JSC LRNGAZSPETSTROI INN 7806027191	35,63	23,63	-6,82	-2,70	-13 649 916	-5 391 090	303 Adequate
Average value for TOP 10	27,08	15,73	-0,35	2,27	-637 852	555 749
Average value for TOP 100	2,96	1,83	-0,02	0,24	-88 816	131 083
Average industry value	0,12	0,10	0,001	0,003	14	113

growth of indicator to the previous period, fall of indicator to the previous period

The industry average values of the return on the authorized capital is significantly below the industry average ones of TOP 10 and TOP 100. One company of TOP 10 had negative value of the indicator. Three companies have reduced their figures in 2020. In 2019, the fall was recorded for six companies.

In 2020, three companies included in TOP 10 gained revenue and four legal entities gained net profit. In general, the revenue of TOP 10 fell at average 42%, and a 38% decrease was recorded in TOP 100. Average profit of TOP 10 climbed 7 times, and the 13-time increase was recorded for TOP 100. The industry average profit climbed 3 times.

Over the past five years, the industry average values of the return on the authorized capital have increased over two periods. The highest value was recorded in 2016 and the lowest one was in 2017 (Picture 1).

Picture 1. Change in the industry average values of the return on the authorized capital in 2016 - 2020

The Federal Law No. 156-FZ dated 26.05.2021 amended the Federal Law No. 99-FZ dated 04.05.2011 "On licensing certain types of activity". Service maintenance of weapons and military equipment has been established as a new type of activity that is subjected to mandatory licensing.

The law will come into force on November, 21 this year.

The requirement for mandatory license availability will not apply to legal relations that arose before the date of the law entry into force, in connection to relevant public contracts for maintenance of weapons and military equipment.

The law was developed by the Russian Federation Ministry of Industry and Trade in order to implement the Decree of the Russian Federation President No. 603 dated 07.05.2012 "On implementation of plans (programs) for construction and development of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, other troops, military formations and bodies and modernization of military-industrial complex»

Currently, there are more than 440.000 companies operating in Russia that carry out activities subjected to mandatory licensing. Users of the Information and Analytical system Globas are able to access all the available information about these companies.