How many companies are in Saihat?
Active commercial registrations in Saihat by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Eastern Province.
4,135
active commercial registrations — 1.4% of the Eastern Province.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Saihat has 4,135 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 1.4% of the Eastern Province and 0.2% of Saudi Arabia, the 40th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 3,463 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 671 are companies, and 1 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
173 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Saihat's share of new registrations (0.3%) is above its share of the stock, so it is attracting a growing share of new businesses.
Limited liability companies make up 86.9% of companies in Saihat and 40.8% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 10k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 4,135
- 1.4% of the Eastern Province
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 173
- 1.8% of the Eastern Province
- Companies
- 671
- 3,463 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 10k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Saihat
Still-active CRs by the quarter they were created. Cancelled registrations are excluded, so earlier quarters read lower.
Business structures
Active registrations by legal form
- Sole proprietorship3,46383.7%
- LLC58314.1%
- JSC491.2%
- SJSC210.5%
- General partnership110.3%
- Limited partnership70.2%
- Foreign branch1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 532 companies with their main registration in Saihat
- Under SAR 10k19737%
- SAR 10k–100k18735.2%
- SAR 100k–500k8716.4%
- SAR 500k–5m407.5%
- SAR 5m+213.9%
Company variants
Share of all 671 companies
- Single-person companies27440.8%
- Holding companies284.2%
- Professional companies111.6%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Saihat?
Saihat has 4,135 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 671 companies and 3,463 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Saihat in Q2 2026?
173 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Saihat?
SAR 10k. Among companies registered in Saihat, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in Saihat?
Foreign investors first obtain a MISA investment licence, then the Ministry of Commerce issues the commercial registration (CR), followed by municipal licensing, Chamber of Commerce membership, ZATCA, GOSI and Qiwa registration. Alpha Consultancy runs the full process for companies setting up in Saihat.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 30 June 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 30 June 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
The Ministry's extract is dated 30 June 2026; it was taken at the start of that day, so registrations created on the reference date itself are not included.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
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