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Private Company Data
Filed financials, not estimates. P&L statements, balance sheets and ownership for millions of private businesses, sourced from official trade registers in 200+ markets.
376M+
Businesses covered
200+
Markets covered
2005
Earliest filed accounts
22
Pre-calculated ratios
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The definition
What is private company data?
Private company data is information on businesses without a stock-exchange listing. The listed world is tiny: fewer than 50,000 businesses worldwide carry a ticker (World Federation of Exchanges, 2024). Everything else is private. In our records, that is 376 million registered businesses, minus a rounding error.
Most providers stop there. Subtract the listed few from the total and sell the rest as private market data. That lump includes market stalls, holding shells and foundations. Serious private company research needs a sharper cut.
We read the registers the way an analyst would. Start with all 376 million businesses. Set aside 118 million sole proprietorships, natural persons trading under a name. Set aside 20.3 million partnerships. Leave out foundations, associations and the other structures that exist for something else than profit. What remains is 174 million private corporations: incorporated businesses with equity, ownership and, across Europe, filed accounts.
Every number in this definition is live. It refreshes against our records monthly, so the privately held company information you buy matches the counts you read here.
Why registers win
Private company financials, filed at the source
In the US, private businesses file almost nothing. So most private company data on the market is modeled: revenue ranges, guessed EBITDA, self-reported employee counts. Useful for a hunch, useless for a decision.
Europe works differently. Trade registers require private businesses to deposit annual accounts. We ingest those filings directly, normalize them across jurisdictions and pre-calculate 22 ratios. What you see is what the business filed, down to the register and filing date.
Real example
IKEA is private. Its numbers are still on file.
Ingka Holding B.V., the largest IKEA retailer, has never sold a share on a stock exchange. Yet its full annual accounts sit in the Dutch trade register, because Dutch law requires it. That is the difference between private and invisible.
The same goes for LEGO in the Danish register, and for Bosch and Aldi in the German one. Famous names without a stock ticker, with their filed numbers on record.
Owner
Stichting INGKA Foundation
Global parent · Private
Ingka Holding B.V.
Leiden, Netherlands · Accounts filed at KVK
Subsidiary
IKEA Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
Hofheim-Wallau, Germany
✓ Accounts filed · Handelsregister
Subsidiary
Ikea Limited
London, United Kingdom
✓ Accounts filed · Companies House
Subsidiary
IKEA Belgium N.V.
Zaventem, Belgium
✓ Accounts filed · KBO/BCE
LIVE DATA STREAM • 2026 Audit
IKEA (Ingka Group)
Company Hierarchy
Total Subsidiaries250
Countries13
Total Revenue (est)$10.6B
Founded–
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API
Private company data, straight from your code
Revenue, firmographics and ownership per business. REST endpoints, JSON out, from EUR 25 per month.
What you get
Private company information, in full
One payload per business. Financial statements, ratios, ownership and firmographics, normalized across every jurisdiction.
Profit & loss
19 line items per year, from 2005 onward. Turnover, gross profit, EBITDA, profit after tax, dividends, cash flow.
Balance sheet
23 fields, audited and registry-sourced. Assets, equity, debt, working capital, provisions.
22 pre-calculated ratios
Profitability, liquidity, solvency and transfer pricing ratios. One methodology across all markets.
Ownership and structure
Shareholders, parents, subsidiaries and the global ultimate owner. See corporate hierarchy data.
Management and directors
Active directors and executives per entity, as registered.
Firmographics
Industry codes, employees, legal form, registration numbers, addresses and websites.
Full field list and per-country coverage on the financial data page.
Request a Free SampleThe practical part
How to find private company financials
Skip the news archives and modeled guesses. If the business operates in a market with mandatory filing, the numbers exist. Here is the short route.
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Identify the legal entity
Trading names hide the filer. Find the registered entity and its registration number first. Our free company lookup resolves a name to the entity in seconds.
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Pull the filed accounts
Every market has its register: Companies House, Handelsregister, KVK, INSEE and 200+ more. We deliver the filings from all of them, normalized into one structure.
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Compare across years
One year is a snapshot. Our records go back to 2005, so you can read the trend: growth, margin pressure, leverage, cash position.
Historical data
Years of filed history, not a snapshot
A single year tells you where a business is. The history tells you where it is going. Our private company revenue data runs back to 2005: filed turnover, results and employee counts, so you can read growth, margin pressure and leverage across full economic cycles.
Analysts, investors and compliance teams use this history to build models, backtest assumptions and document how a counterparty performed before they ever met it.
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Trend over cycles
Compare a business against itself through 2008, 2020 and everything in between.
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Year-by-year statements
Filed P&L and balance sheet per year, in one standardized structure across markets.
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Custom windows
Scoped by country, industry, size and the exact years you need. Delivered in 24 hours.
Coverage
Our three biggest markets
Private market data looks different per market, because filing rules differ. Here is what to expect where.
Europe
The deepest filed financials anywhere. Deposit requirements mean full P&L and balance sheets for millions of private businesses, from Handelsregister to INSEE, in one schema.
Explore Europe →
United Kingdom
Straight from Companies House, refreshed monthly. Filed accounts, directors, registration numbers and SIC codes for every limited business.
Explore the UK →
USA
Legal entities from the IRS, SEC and state registries across all 50 states. No filed statements for private businesses, so records carry firmographics, ownership and contacts.
Explore the USA →Use cases
Private company research you can defend
When a number ends up in a model, a memo or a credit decision, it needs a source. Filed accounts give you one.
M&A and deal sourcing
Screen private market targets on real turnover and EBITDA, not modeled ranges. Three to five years of statements per target, with the group structure in the same payload.
Credit and supplier risk
Solvency, liquidity and their trend over time, straight from the balance sheet. Spot deterioration before it reaches the payment terms.
Sales and market sizing
Filter your addressable market by filed turnover, employees and growth. Ship a clean list of qualified private businesses to your CRM.
Customer stories
Decisions made on filed numbers
Deal teams, risk models and research desks that swapped estimates for register filings.
Finquest · M&A deal sourcing
Deal research on filed revenue history
Historical revenue for growth-trajectory analysis across 200+ markets, integrated straight into Finquest's deal-sourcing systems. Research per deal got 65% faster.
Read the story
Everstream Analytics · Supply chain AI
Risk models trained on verified records
Predictive supply chain models run on registry-sourced business data instead of scraped noise, sourced and managed at global scale.
Read the story
CEIS · Economic intelligence
One view of the businesses behind trade
Xinhua's economic intelligence arm tracks global trade flows with importers and exporters normalised across 200+ markets, refreshed against the source.
Read the storyDelivery
Bulk file or API, your choice
Full statements ship as bulk files. Revenue and firmographics are also available in real time.
Bulk file
P&L and balance sheets as CSV or Parquet. One-off or scheduled drops, scoped to your countries and segments.
Request a bulk quote →Company Data API
Revenue, firmographics and ownership per business, in real time. REST endpoints with JSON responses.
Explore the Company Data API →Private company data FAQs
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