The paper deals with measuring the competitiveness of the Czech enterprises. It proceeds from the assumption that company competitiveness is reflected in its performance and financial success which is possible to measure with standard ratio indicators, and also from the assumption that competitiveness results from certain characteristic factors. The aim of the paper is to divide the companies into a number of groups using selected ratio indicators and to search for characteristics typical of them. Partially, the aim is also to find out whether there are different factor characteristics for particular groups, i.e. whether it is possible to consider the selected factors to be the factors of competitiveness.