European Market Benchmarks
Explore sector benchmarks computed from official company filings, with cited European reference data kept separate.
- Explore UK sectors
- Companies House filings. A snapshot metric appears only when at least 5 companies contributed data.
- These are statistics from filings in our UK registry sample, not verified sale prices. Metrics with fewer than 5 contributing companies are not published.
- Benchmarks computed from official company registries. Medium sized European businesses sold for about 8.6× their profit in Q1 2026, according to the Argos Mid-Market Index, which tracks completed sales and is published by Argos Wityu. Every figure shown is either a live computation or a cited published source. No fabricated aggregates, no invented deal counts.
- European coverage lighting up in waves
- We connect to each country's official company registry to compute sector level benchmarks from real filing data. Coverage is listed honestly: LIVE means real computed statistics are live in production, CONNECTED means the data pipeline is established, IN ROLLOUT means initial ingestion is active.
- Proprietary benchmarks from Companies House official filings
- Proprietary benchmarks from annual accounts filed with the Brønnøysund Register Centre
- KVK registry connected: identity and filing data ingested
- OpenCorporates integration: initial data pipeline active
- What medium sized businesses sold for
- Medium sized European businesses sold for about 8.6× their profit in Q1 2026, according to the Argos Mid-Market Index, which tracks completed sales and is published by Argos Wityu. The index only covers businesses inside the eurozone that are not listed on a stock exchange, worth between 15 million and 500 million euros, where the buyer took control rather than a minority stake. Each figure is a rolling median over six months. Three industries are left out of the index entirely: financial services, real estate, and high technology. Argos does not collect them, so any figure we show for those industries is ours alone and is not supported by this source.
- Price paid by buyer type, Argos Mid-Market Index Q1 2026
- Chart axis: 0× to 12× EV/EBITDA
- Argos publishes one figure covering all industries together. It does not publish a separate figure for any single industry, so every per industry number on this platform is our own estimate worked out from that one figure, not something Argos published. This is a eurozone reference. We make no per country adjustment to the multiple.
- UK sector highlights
- Computed from Companies House filings. Figures shown only where sample size ≥ 5 companies per sector.
- Norwegian sector medians from filed accounts
- Medians of the latest annual accounts filed with the Brønnøysund Register Centre by the active Norwegian companies in our registry sample. A sector is shown only where at least 5 companies filed. Figures are reported in NOK and describe our sample, not the Norwegian market.
- How we compute benchmarks
- Registry ingestion
- We connect to each country's official company registry via their public API or bulk data feed. Only data sourced from official government filings is accepted. No third party scrapers.
- n≥5 threshold
- Every metric is computed only when at least 5 companies contribute data to that sector. Below the threshold, we show "None" rather than a potentially misleading figure. Sample sizes are always displayed.
- Continuous updates
- Computations re run automatically as new filings are parsed. Each figure carries a computed_at timestamp. No figure claims to be "real time". We show exactly when each computation ran.
- Explore UK sector benchmarks in detail
- The UK Benchmarks page shows every computed metric per sector: median company age, filing rates, financial ratios, with sample sizes and computation timestamps.