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Methodology and data sources

Every piece of data on this site comes from an official public register. None of it is entered by hand, none of it is bought from a third party.

Sources and freshness

What this site does not publish

  • Natural persons whose name and address INSEE has ruled non-disclosable.
  • Beneficial owners, whose public access has been restricted since the Court of Justice of the European Union ruling of November 2022.
  • Annual accounts filed under a confidentiality declaration. Where only the income statement was declared confidential, the balance sheet remains published and the company page says so.
  • The home address of directors, which the national business register provides but which this site does not collect.

How the strength scores are calculated

Two independent scores, computed by us from public data. They are not averaged: a profitable company placed under insolvency protection would show a reassuring average, which is exactly the wrong thing to say.

The financial score, 0 to 100

It covers the latest known financial year, using the ratios published by the French Directorate General for Enterprise. Five components, weighted by what actually keeps a company standing: equity first, because a profitable company without equity disappears on its first bad debt, while the reverse is rare.

Equity to assets 30, EBITDA margin 25, liquidity 20, debt 15, revenue trend 10.

Each component is scored by its position in the real distribution of French companies, at the 5th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 95th percentiles, measured on 30 September 2026 over financial years ended on or after 1 January 2023. A threshold chosen by us would be an opinion; a percentile is a measurable fact, and it can be recalibrated by measuring again.

If fewer than three of the five components can be evaluated, no score is produced. A score computed on two ratios would look like a score without being one.

The score is scaled to the weight actually evaluated. A missing component therefore costs nothing: counting it as zero would assert poor debt levels merely because we do not know them.

The legal score, 0 to 100

It covers facts declared to the registers rather than accounts. Four components: no insolvency proceedings 40, currently trading 20, age 20, accounts filed recently 20.

Ongoing insolvency proceedings cap the score at 20 rather than deducting points. A company in liquidation whose other indicators are fine must not come out at B because it is old and files its accounts.

Failure to file accounts counts only for legal forms required to do so. A sole trader has nothing to file, and penalising one would be nonsense: the component is then not evaluated, never zero.

Confidence, which never adjusts the score

It answers a different question: how current and complete our statement is. Accounts from 2019 read in 2026 do not make the company riskier, they make our figure less certain. Lowering the score for that reason would amount to saying a company is doing badly because we do not know.

What these scores are not

  • They are not advice, not a guarantee, and not a credit decision.
  • They do not replace a review of the accounts or the judgement of a professional.
  • They do not account for the industry: a normal margin in construction is not a normal margin in consulting.
  • They are not adjusted for the length of the financial year, which the published ratios do not carry.
  • They rest on data we republish and do not verify: an error in the source becomes an error in the score.

If a score looks wrong to you, the formula and the values feeding it are shown on every company page. Tell us about the discrepancy and we will correct it or explain where it comes from.

Every score carries the version of the formula it was computed with, so that a figure noted yesterday stays interpretable after a change of scale.

Correcting or removing data

Incorrect data is corrected at source: this site will pick up the correction automatically at the next update. To request the removal of personal data from our public pages, use the claims page. Requests are handled within 24 hours.