At the same time, 19% of the companies expect their turnover to fall in 2017.
Thus, 54% of companies in the trade sector expect turnover growth of 1-10% this year, as well as 46% of the companies in industry/manufacturing, 41% in services sector and only 33% in the IT sector.
Companies that expect stagnation or decline in revenue this year operate in the industrial sector (16%), services sector (13%), trade sector (8%), IT sector (11%) and construction sector (17%).
Profit forecasts for 2017 are slightly more optimistic. Thus, 32% of the companies expect a profit rate growth of 1%-5%, 18% expect the profit of the company to increase between 5% -10%, 21% between 10%-20%, and 17% of the companies expect to get profit rates from 20% to over 30%. Only 12% of the companies have negative expectations about their profit for 2017.
According to the survey, 16% of companies say they will increase investments by 1% -5% in 2017, 39% want to increase investments by 5%-20% compared to the previous year, and 24% say they will increase investments by 20%-30%. At the same time, 10% of companies say their investments will stagnate this year, while the investments will decrease in 2017 for 11% of the companies.
The survey was carried out between February 1- March 20, 2017 and was based on the answers of 314 top executives from companies in various industries. 57% of the respondents are CEOs/Presidents/General Managers.