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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 190+ countries.

374M+
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 374 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 374 million businesses. Set aside 114 million sole proprietorships, natural persons trading under a name. Set aside 20.6 million partnerships. Leave out foundations, associations and the other structures that exist for something else than profit. What remains is 176 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.

The private market, counted
Registered businesses worldwide374,878,426
Stock-exchange listedfewer than 50,000
Private, broad definition374,828,426
of which sole proprietorships− 114,393,272
of which partnerships− 20,654,211
of which non-profit and other structures− 63,130,787
Private corporations, our strict cut176,700,156

Live counts from our records, October 2026. Listed figure: World Federation of Exchanges, end of 2024.

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.

Estimated data
Filed data
Revenue
Modeled range
Exact, from filed P&L
Balance sheet
Rarely available
23 fields, audited
History
Snapshot only
From 2005 onward
Verifiable
No source given
Register + 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
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IKEA (Ingka Group)

Company Hierarchy

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Total Subsidiaries500
Countries24
Total Revenue (est)$29.1B
Founded1982
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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.

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The 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.

1

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.

2

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.

3

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

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.

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United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Straight from Companies House, refreshed monthly. Filed accounts, directors, registration numbers and SIC codes for every limited business.

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USA

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.

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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.

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Deal research on filed revenue history

Historical revenue for growth-trajectory analysis across 190+ countries, integrated straight into Finquest's deal-sourcing systems. Research per deal got 65% faster.

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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.

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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 190+ countries, refreshed against the source.

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Delivery

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.

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Company Data API

Revenue, firmographics and ownership per business, in real time. REST endpoints with JSON responses.

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KYB API

Verify a private business against its register record in one call.

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Private company data FAQs

Start from the legal entity, not the trading name. In markets with mandatory filing, the annual accounts sit in the official trade register. We collect those filings from 200+ registers, normalize them and deliver them as one feed. For a single name, use our free lookup. Try Company Lookup.

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