Aker
Oslo-listed holding company, tracing its history to 1841, with net asset value of NOK 67.3 billion at end-2025. Holdings include Aker BP, Aker Solutions, Aker BioMarine, Cognite and Nscale.
Industry: Industrial investment | Location: Fornebu, Norway | Founded: 1841
About Aker
Aker ASA is a Norwegian industrial investment company that holds stakes in listed and unlisted businesses and exercises what it calls active ownership. Its annual report says Aker is a holding company with 46 employees, headquartered at Fornebu outside Oslo. The shares trade on Euronext Oslo under the ticker AKER and are in the OSEBX benchmark index. Its investments are concentrated in energy, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, real estate and marine biotechnology.\n\nAker dates its history to 1841. According to Wikipedia, Kjell Inge Røkke's Resource Group International merged with Aker in 1996 to form Aker RGI, and the company was relisted in 2004. Røkke chairs the board and owns 68.2 percent of the shares through his TRG holding companies. Øyvind Eriksen, who joined in 2009 after a career as a partner at the law firm BAHR, is president and chief executive, and Svein Oskar Stoknes has been chief financial officer since 2019.\n\nAt the end of 2025 the listed holdings included Aker BP at 21.2 percent, Aker Solutions at 39.4 percent, Aker BioMarine at 77.7 percent, and Solstad Maritime at 51.8 percent. Unlisted holdings included Cognite at 50.5 percent, Aker Property Group at 100 percent and Aker Qrill Company at 40 percent. In 2025 Aker set up Aker Nscale, a 50/50 joint venture with the AI infrastructure company Nscale, and took a 9.3 percent fully diluted stake in Nscale.\n\nAker reported net asset value of NOK 67.3 billion at the end of 2025, or NOK 905 per share, and gross asset value of NOK 79.4 billion. The consolidated group had operating revenue of NOK 18.4 billion, which included a NOK 4.8 billion gain from deconsolidating the Aker Nscale joint venture, and profit from continuing operations of NOK 2.5 billion.\n\nOn 30 June 2026 Aker and the other shareholders agreed to sell Cognite to Schneider Electric at an enterprise value of $3.1 billion. Aker expects about $1.48 billion in cash. In its second-quarter report of 16 July 2026, Aker put net asset value at NOK 106.1 billion, or NOK 1,429 per share, and announced an offer to take Aker BioMarine private.
Leadership
- Kjell Inge Røkke, Chair of the Board
- Øyvind Eriksen, President and Chief Executive Officer
- Svein Oskar Stoknes, Chief Financial Officer
- Frank O. Reite, Deputy Chair of the Board
- Richard Silén, Chief Investment Officer