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About Cap News
Cap News reports what UK company accounts show, every working day, from the accounts themselves.
What we do
Around ten thousand sets of company accounts are filed with Companies House every working day and published immediately as open data. Almost nobody reads them in bulk. We do, and we report what the day's filings show: how many companies reported liabilities larger than assets, how many went backwards against the prior year, and which industries are carrying it.
It is a narrow beat, deliberately. One day of filings is not an economy, but the series is a picture that no single filing and no press release can give.
What we do not do
- We do not call companies insolvent. Negative net assets is a fact about a filing, and plenty of healthy companies report it. The reports deal in aggregates.
- We do not sell credit reports, scores or company data. There is no paywall and no lead form.
- We do not cover markets. This is what companies file, not what they trade at.
- We are not affiliated with Companies House or any part of government. We use their published data under an open licence.
Who publishes it
Published by Domain Farm Ltd, company number 13544286, registered in England and Wales, which also publishes Small Cap News. The editor is Sam Allcock. He is not an accountant, an insolvency practitioner or a financial adviser, and the site is built so that the primary data does the talking: the method is published in full, including the mistakes we caught before publishing.
Corrections and questions go to editor@capnews.co.uk.
How it is paid for
It is not, yet. No advertising, no affiliate links, no paid placement, and no company has paid to appear here or to be left out. If that changes it will be disclosed on this page and on the page where the money is, before you read it rather than after.