UK Market Benchmarks
Real sector statistics computed from official Companies House filings
- Every figure on this page is computed directly from data filed with Companies House, the UK registrar of companies. Sample sizes are shown next to each metric. A metric is only displayed when at least 5 companies have the relevant data (marked n<5 otherwise). Financial figures (turnover, employees) are only shown where extracted from electronically filed iXBRL accounts, never estimated.
- Statistics computed from active UK companies in the Companies House registry. Registration/age data covers all analysed companies. Financial figures (turnover, profit, employees) are only shown where extracted from official filed iXBRL accounts and sample size ≥ 5.
- Sector Benchmarks
- Business Services
- Professional Svcs
- Food & Beverage
- Financial Services
- Interactive Sector Explorer
- Select a sector to drill into detailed metrics computed from official Companies House filings. Figures are only shown where n≥5 companies contribute data.
- 13 of 13 sectors have sufficient data
- Select a sector above to view its benchmarks.
- Medium sized European businesses sold for about 8,8× their profit in Q2 2026, according to the Argos Mid-Market Index, which tracks completed sales and is published by Argos Wityu. View the European table for sector estimates and source classifications.
- 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. 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. No country adjustment is made to this eurozone reference multiple. It is a published index, not verified transaction data that MANDA holds.