Croatian economy from 1994. to 2008. had high rates of economic growth. In a line with whole economy growth, construction industry followed this growth with its strong ascent in the period between the year 2000 and the year 2008 after which it is faced with economic crisis. Previous experiences show that economic crisis periods in construction industry usually have long term and strong negative financial effects what was the case in Croatia as well. Construction industry went throw financial crisis along with chosen companies: Konstruktor inženjering plc., Dalekovod plc., Viadukt plc., Tehnika plc. and Osijek-Koteks plc. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the crisis on the construction sector and the selected companies, the purpose of this paper is to confirm that the construction sector is linked to the movement of the entire Croatian economy. This paper analyzes the influence of crisis on following companies: Konstruktor-inţenjering plc., Dalekovod plc., Viadukt plc., Tehnika plc. and Osijek-Koteks plc. in order to compare them with construction industry in general by using chosen financial indicators like total revenue, net income, number of employees, net export, current liquidity ratio and debt ratio (data for Viadukt plc. for the year 2016 is not available). The outcome of this paper is comparative view on the influence of crisis on construction industry in general and chosen sample of companies in particularby using chosen financial indicators and in addition final confirmation that construction industry is strongly influenced by economic cycles.