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UK Regional Snapshot · Belfast
2026 Financial Stability Report:
2026 Financial Stability Report:
Belfast
Belfast posts the highest average revenue per firm in the 2026 directory (£14.7M across 26 active filers) at a 6.05% operating margin, small sample but profitable, and meaningfully above the regional pack outside London.
Active Firms (Sample)
26
2026 active filers, FY25 close
Average Revenue
£14.7M
Per firm, latest filing
Average Margin
6.05%
Operating profit / turnover
Risk Grade
C+
Aggregate stability score
Why this data is more accurate
than Companies House.
Companies House publishes the filings. We parse them — every iXBRL submission, every business day, against 41 named stability checks. The numbers on this page reflect the live UK population, not the curated extract that bureaus re-license a quarter behind.
Tag-level, not summary-level
Companies House publishes the iXBRL filing itself. Most credit bureaus throw away the underlying tags. We keep every tag — staff costs, current ratio, debt/equity — and recompute the regional distribution daily.
Auditable, not aggregated
Every statistic on this page is traceable to the underlying filings. Click any number on the API and you get the list of Belfast-registered companies that produced it, with the originating Companies House filing reference.
What this report covers
This is the 2026 financial-stability snapshot for Belfast. The active sample contains 26 filers averaging £14.7M of revenue at a 6.05% operating margin — the highest average revenue per firm in the regional directory and the strongest combination of scale and profitability outside London.
Twenty-six firms is a meaningful sample for a regional report — large enough to suppress the noise of any single low-margin or one-off filing, small enough that we can read the underlying iXBRL tag-level data filing-by-filing. The signal worth taking from the snapshot is structural: a relatively concentrated population of large, positive-margin firms exists in the Belfast active-filer base, and the sample mean sits comfortably above the regional pack outside London.
What stands out in the Belfast sample
For credit, vendor-risk and origination teams with Belfast exposure, the most informative observations from the daily Pulse feed are:
- Average revenue per firm is the highest in the directory. £14.7M average is materially above Manchester (£1.7M), Edinburgh (£5.3M) and Birmingham (£2.7M) — a meaningful difference even adjusted for sectoral mix.
- Operating margins clear the 5% line. A 6.05% average margin is not London-grade, but it is the only non-London region in the 2026 directory above the 5% threshold most credit models treat as a stability floor.
- Sample composition skews to larger filers. Belfast’s active-filer population is heavily weighted toward firms above the £10.2M turnover threshold, which both lifts the average revenue figure and tightens the margin distribution.
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