European Company Financials 2019–2025

Key findings

1. 7,275,327 company-years for 3,620,213 companies in seven countries, fiscal years 2019 to 2025. The United Kingdom (2,064,089 companies) and France (933,682) are the largest groups.
2. Revenue is filed for 42% of company-years. Coverage runs from France 100%, Sweden 88%, Finland 85%, Norway 77%, Denmark 17%, Germany 6%, United Kingdom 3%. Most UK rows are balance sheets (equity, assets, headcount) without revenue or profit.
3. The median company earned a net margin of 4.2% (company-years with revenue and profit filed, n = 1,981,379); 26% of them reported a loss.
4. Revenue is highly concentrated. In fiscal 2024 the top 1% of companies by revenue (5,855 companies) account for 81% of the €5.0T filed revenue in the data.
5. Among 40,193 companies with revenue of at least €1M in both 2023 and 2024, the median grew 1.7%; 56% grew and 4% grew by half or more.
6. Median revenue per employee (company-years with both filed): Denmark €87.2K, Sweden €80.6K, United Kingdom €48.1K.

Company-years by country and fiscal year

Full data. Recent years fill in as accounts are filed, so 2025 is partial; the years covered differ by country (see Limitations).

Which figures each country files

Share of company-years where each figure is present after the sanity checks.

Revenue distribution by band, fiscal 2023–2024

Company-years with revenue filed, converted to euro at fixed 2024 rates.

Largest companies by revenue, fiscal 2024 (top 50)

Entity-level accounts as filed: a group can appear through its holding company and its subsidiaries, and consolidated figures are used where the filing has them.

Most profitable companies, fiscal 2024 (top 50 by net income)

Net margin and balance-sheet strength by country

Company-years with both revenue (> 0) and net income filed.

Profitability by company size, fiscal 2023–2024

Fastest-growing companies 2023 → 2024 (top 50, revenue ≥ €10M in 2023)

Same company and same accounts basis (single-entity or consolidated) in both years, revenue converted at the same fixed rate so currency moves do not count as growth. Growth above 5× is left out as a likely change of scope or units; remaining jumps can reflect acquisitions.

Largest employers, fiscal 2024 (top 50)

Column dictionary

16 columns in the sample CSV.

Method

1. Source. Annual accounts filed with public company registries in seven countries, parsed from structured filings (XBRL, iXBRL, ESEF) and, for some German companies, from published HTML statements.
2. One row per company-year. Annual periods only. When a company files both single-entity and consolidated accounts for a year, the consolidated figures are used. When a year has several filings (amendments), the latest balance-sheet date wins.
3. Metrics. revenue is turnover / net sales; net_income is profit or loss for the year; equity is total shareholders' equity; total_assets is total assets (for UK accounts that file no total line, fixed plus current assets); employees is the average headcount reported in the accounts (rounded to a whole number).
4. Sanity checks. Values are blanked, not corrected, when: revenue or total assets are negative; a figure exceeds a ceiling (revenue €500B, net income ±€100B, equity ±€1T, total assets €5T, employees 800,000, negative headcount); equity exceeds total assets; net income is more than 10× the larger of revenue and total assets; revenue exceeds 10,000× total assets (unit errors); or a metric is filed in a different currency from the rest of the year. German HTML-parsed figures are kept only when they are exact euro-and-cent amounts, because integer values on that path were often note numbers, years or thousand-scaled. Rows with no figure left are dropped.
5. Currency. Money columns are in the filing currency (currency). revenue_eur and every euro figure in the tables use one fixed 2024 average rate per currency, so year-on-year growth is not affected by exchange-rate moves.

6. Website link. A company gets a domain when Fliar's company index links it to the company directly, or through the same national company number in the same country with a matching legal name and exactly one website.

7. Sample. Each companie key is ranked by sha1(key). Keys are taken in rank order until the file holds max(25%, 5,000) rows (capped at 100,000).

8. Profile links. Links are built from Fliar's company index and checked against it. A row whose company has no public profile has an empty link.

Limitations

• One storage shard of the source table was unavailable at release time, so every count is a slight undercount (one of seven storage shards, so roughly one in seven filings is missing).
• Which figures are present differs by country (see the coverage table): revenue is rare in the UK and German rows, and headcount is present only for the UK, Sweden and Denmark. German coverage is limited to filings Radar has parsed so far.
• Figures are entity-level accounts as filed. A corporate group can appear several times (holding company and subsidiaries), and consolidated and single-entity accounts are not comparable.
• Fiscal 2025 is partial because many accounts for that year had not yet been filed.
• The years covered differ by country with what Radar has collected so far: the UK and Norway are concentrated in 2023–2025, Sweden, Denmark and Germany in 2019–2021, France and Finland across the whole period. Compare countries within a year, and read trends per country.
• Most UK rows are small-company balance sheets (equity, assets, headcount) without revenue or profit.
• Euro conversions use fixed rates and are meant for ranking and banding, not for exact comparison.
• Only a small share of companies are linked to a website, so most company_domain and fliar_profile_url cells are empty.

Cite this dataset

@misc{fliarbi_european_company_financials_2026,
  author    = {{Fliar BI}},
  title     = {{European Company Financials 2019–2025}},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23432065},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23432065},
  note      = {Sample release. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0}
}