European Growth Leaders 2026

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Croatia · Industrials

Koncar Group

Provides generators, transformers, trams, hydropower plants, transformer substations and related products, services and solutions.

+88%revenue growth
FY2022–FY2025
+325%net-income growth
FY2022–FY2025
+527%stock return
FY2022–FY2025
+47%2026 stock return
current context only

Company profile

Energy systems, electric mobility and digital infrastructure

KONČAR is a Croatian industrial group whose four operating areas connect power generation, transmission and distribution, urban mobility and digital infrastructure. Its member companies design and manufacture generators, transformers, switchgear, trams, trains, power electronics and control software, then combine those building blocks in complete plants and transport systems. The result is an unusual portfolio that reaches from a hydro generator or 420 kV substation to a battery train and the software supervising a city's services.

Energy systems

From generators and solar plants to 420 kV substations

KONČAR designs, builds, revitalises and services power plants, manufacturing generators, excitation and control systems, transformers and switchgear inside the group. Donja Dubrava pairs 23,114 panels and 44 inverters with PROZA NET control; the Ernestinovo and Žerjavinec substations show the same model at 400 kV grid scale.

Electric mobility

Trams, trains and charging infrastructure are developed together

The rail portfolio spans low-floor trams, EMUs, DMUs, battery multiple units and the traction, signalling and charging systems around them. Croatia's first domestically produced battery train entered service in 2025: a 42-metre vehicle reaching 120 km/h, with an optimal range near 100 km and a 27-minute charge from KONČAR's 1 MW station.

Digital layer

PROZA software turns equipment into managed infrastructure

PROZA Station supervises power and gas plants; PowerCIM connects grid-management systems; MARS meters and analyses energy, water and city services. In Karlovac, MARS became a common layer for parking, school energy use, air quality, weather, water meters, waste containers and thermal substations.

Group architecture

Independent specialists combine around complex assignments

KONČAR reports 16 subsidiaries and one associate, a transformer-tank venture with Siemens Energy. Members retain their own management while contributing products to shared solutions; the group says its products, services and solutions are installed in 140 countries worldwide. The lineage began with Elektra in 1921. D&ST and Dalekovod are separately listed issuers in this ranking, so their standalone activities remain in their own profiles.

Current 2026 update

What has changed in 2026?

Contracts signed 16 July 2026 · 16 July 2026

Contracts signed 16 July 2026latest official update
4company-specific highlights
+47%2026 stock return · context only

First-quarter sales

Sales revenue reached EUR 330.5 million, 8.0% above the comparable quarter.

First quarter ended 31 March 2026 · EUR 330.5m · +8.0%

First-quarter profit and EBITDA

Net profit was EUR 72.7 million, EUR 7.6 million above the prior year; EBITDA was EUR 79.1 million, up EUR 9.5 million, with a 23.9% margin.

First quarter ended 31 March 2026

New contracts and order backlog

New contracts totalled EUR 585.0 million in the quarter; backlog exceeded EUR 2.9 billion, EUR 759.5 million above March 2025.

First quarter ended 31 March 2026

Battery-train project

Contracts were signed for six battery-electric multiple units and a hybrid charging station; the total project value is EUR 53.6 million.

Contracts signed 16 July 2026 · EUR 53.6m total project value

Annual record

Ranking history

Future editions add rows; they do not rewrite the 2026 record.

EditionMeasurement periodRankRevenue growthNet-income growthStock return
2026FY2022–FY202513+88%+325%+527%