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UK Regional Snapshot · Birmingham
2026 Financial Stability Report:
2026 Financial Stability Report:
Birmingham
Birmingham's 2026 sample of 88 active filers reports £2.7M average revenue. Operating margin is not yet reportable in the current data window, full margin readings await FY25 filing closure across the sample.
Active Firms (Sample)
88
2026 active filers, FY25 close
Average Revenue
£2.7M
Per firm, latest filing
Average Margin
N/A
Operating profit / turnover
Risk Grade
—
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 Birmingham-registered companies that produced it, with the originating Companies House filing reference.
What this report covers
This is the 2026 financial-stability snapshot for Birmingham. The current active sample contains 88 filers averaging £2.7M of revenue. The operating-margin figure is not yet reportable because a meaningful share of the sample has filed under abridged accounts (FRS 105) for the current FY, leaving the margin denominator partially undisclosed across enough of the population to suppress a defensible regional aggregate.
Margin will populate as the remainder of the sample lands full-form FY25 filings. Subscribers to the daily Pulse feed will see the figure populate automatically as the iXBRL tags arrive.
What we can say at this stage
- Sample size at 88 firms is the second-largest in the regional directory — robust enough that the missing margin readings reflect a disclosure-regime issue, not a small-sample issue.
- Average revenue at £2.7M places Birmingham in the lower-mid band of the regional directory, broadly consistent with the city’s mix of mid-sized professional-services and light-industrial filers.
- Risk Grade is held at “—” until the margin denominator clears. Expect a grade by end-Q2 2026 as FY25 filings close.
What we’d watch next
Birmingham’s sample is disproportionately weighted toward FRS 105 abridged filers in the current window — a structural feature of the regional mix rather than a one-off cycle quirk. The most informative early signals to monitor will be:
- First full-form FY25 filings in the FRS 105-eligible portion of the sample — each one materially refines the regional aggregate.
- Threshold crossings — Birmingham’s sample sits just below the £10.2M turnover line on average; any first crossing in the sample is an Archive-grade signal in its own right and forces full-form disclosure on the next filing.
- Sectoral mix shift — as more filings land, the dominant SIC codes may shift, and the regional aggregate is sensitive to that mix.
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