Industry benchmark · SIC 24

Manufacture of basic metals

A benchmark view of the available 4-digit SIC sub-industries, activity, score and financial-health signals. Calculated 2 Jul 2026.

Companies3,3542,825 active
New this year1320 dissolved
Active share84%Active companies as a share of total
Avg insolvency risk26Benchmark average
Avg profitability score41Derived 0–100 cohort signal
Avg gross margin24.4%Benchmark average
Avg revenue growth200.6%Benchmark average
Avg current ratio5.00Benchmark average

Sub-industry ranking

Largest sub-industries by active companies

Active company counts for the available 4-digit SIC sub-industries. The complete table below is the crawlable fallback.

Sub-industry benchmark rows
Sub-industryCompaniesActiveAvg score
Manufacture of tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, of steel SIC 24200 · detailed benchmark90276467
Manufacture of basic iron and steel and of ferro-alloys SIC 24100 · detailed benchmark89475767
Precious metals production SIC 24410 · detailed benchmark38632864
Other non-ferrous metal production SIC 24450 · detailed benchmark34929369
Aluminium production SIC 24420 · detailed benchmark27321566
Casting of other non-ferrous metals SIC 24540 · detailed benchmark25522269
Casting of steel SIC 24520 · detailed benchmark22018768
Casting of light metals SIC 24530 · detailed benchmark18016571
Cold forming or folding SIC 24330 · detailed benchmark16115073
Casting of iron SIC 24510 · detailed benchmark14812770
Copper production SIC 24440 · detailed benchmark716370
Cold drawing of wire SIC 24340484172
Cold rolling of narrow strip SIC 24320423773
Cold drawing of bars SIC 24310322566
Lead, zinc and tin production SIC 24430302870
Processing of nuclear fuel SIC 24460211463
SIC 2466 SIC 246618152
SIC 2416 SIC 241616852
SIC 2413 SIC 241310254
Casting of iron SIC 2451 · detailed benchmark9052
SIC 2430 SIC 24308054
Casting of steel SIC 2452 · detailed benchmark5152
SIC 2470 SIC 24705151
Precious metals production SIC 2441 · detailed benchmark4250
SIC 2415 SIC 24153156
SIC 2412 SIC 24123050
SIC 2414 SIC 24143152
SIC 2463 SIC 24632052
SIC 2464 SIC 24641045
SIC 2465 SIC 24651050
SIC 2417 SIC 24171150
SIC 2411 SIC 24111150