The companies like yours, named from the register.
A peer set: other registered companies in your sector and country, of similar filed size where the register gives one, with the ownership that GLEIF records against each. Built only from the register rows and ownership records we already hold, with a source and a date on every row, and refreshed every day at 04:45 Amsterdam time. Where the register data runs out, the card says so and shows nothing.
- What the peer set shows
- Up to 12 named companies from the public company register of your country, each with the activity codes that put it in the set, its filed size where the register gives one, what GLEIF records about its ownership, and a plain list of the steps that chose the set. Nothing in it is estimated.
- Named peers from the register
- Each peer is a register row we hold: company name, register number, town, status and incorporation date, with the name of the register and the date we fetched the row. Dormant and dissolved companies are left out, and so is your own company.
- Sector is matched on the activity codes the register records, UK SIC 2007 for the United Kingdom and NACE Rev. 2 elsewhere. The codes that matched are shown on each row, so you can see why a company is there.
- Filed size, as filed
- Where we hold a filed operating revenue for a peer, it is shown in the currency of the filing with the source, the balance date of the filing and the id of the observation behind it. On your own set, peers are then kept only when that figure, converted to euro at the European Central Bank reference rate dated on the card, lies between a quarter of and 4 times the revenue you entered in your account, and ranked by how close it is. The card names the date that revenue was entered.
- Where the register gives no turnover figure, as Companies House does not, the row shows the accounts category the register records instead, with the date of the latest accounts, and the size step is marked as not applied. A peer with no filed figure is never guessed into the band.
- Ownership from GLEIF
- For each peer we look for a Legal Entity Identifier registered against its company number and read the parent relationship GLEIF records. Only one answer names an owner: a parent is recorded. Every other answer is shown as unknown, and the row says which it was: an LEI exists but GLEIF records a reporting exception in place of a parent, an LEI exists but its parent relationship has not been read yet, more than one LEI record carries the register number so none was attached, or no LEI matched. An absent record is never a finding about who owns the company.
- How the set was chosen, in plain sentences
- Under the heading the card lists the steps in order: how many register rows we hold for the country, how many carry activity codes, how many fall in the sector, how many passed the size step and how many are shown. When the set is below the floor of 3, the same list says at which step the data ran out, and no set is shown.
- Sector signals we already hold
- Where our research store holds a signal for your sector, a competitor move or a press signal recorded with its source and date, it is listed under the set with its own date. It is context beside the set, not part of it, and it is shown only when such a record exists.
- A separate set for a buyer
- A signed in buyer who may open a listing sees a peer set on the listing page. It is not the seller's set with figures removed. It is built separately for that listing, from the sector and country the listing discloses and nothing else, and never reads the seller's company record or revenue: a set chosen around that figure could be read back to it from the peers' public filings. The buyer view carries no size band, no ratios and no company name. Illustrative sample listings have no company record behind them and show no set.
- Four steps, in the order they happen
- Start with the valuation
- The set is built around the sector, country and revenue you entered for your valuation. Without a valuation in your account there is nothing to build it around.
- Open the Benchmarks tab
- The peer set sits on your valuation results under Benchmarks, with a summary on your dashboard. It is built the first time it is opened, and the card shows when it was last refreshed and what triggered that refresh.
- Read the steps, then the rows
- Read the list of steps first. It says what was searched and where the data ran out. Then read the rows, each with its register, its fetch date and, where shown, the filing behind its size.
- Refresh when you need to
- Refreshed every day at 04:45 Amsterdam time, so a change in the register rows we hold reaches the set the next morning. The rows themselves are fetched on their own schedule, per register. You can also refresh the set at any time from the card, and a refresh rebuilds the buyer set with it. Staff are alerted when the scheduled run does not take place.
- What the software reads, and what it cannot see
- The register rows we hold
- The set is built only from the company register rows already in our database, read from Companies House for the United Kingdom, the Brønnøysund Register Centre for Norway and the KVK for the Netherlands. The card names the count for your country. It does not search the register live, so a company we have never fetched cannot appear.
- Filed figures
- A filed revenue is shown only when we hold the filing as an observation with a source and a balance date. Filed figures are self reported to the register and published by it. We have not checked them, and the card does not describe them as anything more than filed.
- GLEIF records
- Ownership is read from the Legal Entity Identifier records and relationships we hold from GLEIF. Most small companies have no LEI, so for most peers the ownership column says unknown. That is the honest answer, and it is the one shown.
- Exchange rates
- A filed figure in another currency is converted to euro for the size step only at a European Central Bank reference rate we hold, and the list of steps names the date of each rate used. A currency with no reference rate on file is not converted on an estimate: those figures are shown as filed and left out of the size step, and the list of steps says so. The figure itself is always shown in the currency it was filed in.
- No language model
- Where it stops
- The software builds the set. You judge the companies.
- What it stores, records and drafts
- Writes the list of steps from the counts it recorded, and says where the data ran out.
- The instant benchmark gives you an indicative value range in under 60 seconds, measured against completed sales of medium sized European businesses. The full valuation takes about 5 minutes, uses your own financials and shows up to four methods. Both are free. Both are indicative estimates, not a formal appraisal.
- The one success fee we intend to charge applies only when a deal closes. Provisional. No engagement letter has been drafted yet, so this is how we intend to charge rather than terms you can hold us to.
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