Get company share capital and share classes

Company share capital

The share capital section of an ASIC company extract lists each class of shares a company has issued (ordinary, preference, redeemable and so on) with the number of shares on issue, the total amount paid or taken to be paid, and the total amount still due and payable. For a managed investment scheme the same structure describes the interests issued. This endpoint returns those share classes as structured records, which is the quickest way to confirm a company's issued capital before looking at who holds it with the members endpoint. The data comes from a company extract you have already purchased with POST /v1/companies/{id}/extracts and is read back for free, as described in the purchasing guide.

Path parameters

Query parameters

Example request

curl "https://api.asicapi.dev/v1/companies/004085616/share-capital?status=all" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASICAPI_KEY"

Example response

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "object": "shareClass",
      "classCode": "ORD",
      "classTitle": "ORDINARY",
      "status": { "code": "C", "label": "Current" },
      "sharesIssued": 1000,
      "amountPaid": "1000.00",
      "amountDue": "0.00",
      "sourceDocument": { "documentNumber": "0E5123456", "qualifier": null }
    },
    {
      "object": "shareClass",
      "classCode": "RPS",
      "classTitle": "REDEEMABLE PREFERENCE",
      "status": { "code": "C", "label": "Current" },
      "sharesIssued": 250000,
      "amountPaid": "187500.00",
      "amountDue": "62500.00",
      "sourceDocument": { "documentNumber": "2E2233445", "qualifier": null }
    },
    {
      "object": "shareClass",
      "classCode": "B",
      "classTitle": "B CLASS",
      "status": { "code": "E", "label": "Ceased/Former" },
      "sharesIssued": 0,
      "amountPaid": "0.00",
      "amountDue": "0.00",
      "sourceDocument": { "documentNumber": "7E1234567", "qualifier": "AR 2001" }
    }
  ],
  "hasMore": false,
  "nextCursor": null,
  "totalCount": null,
  "extract": {
    "id": "ext_01J9AC5D8R3YN7",
    "type": "historical",
    "purchasedAt": "2026-09-04T03:13:30Z",
    "asOf": "2026-09-04T03:13:27Z"
  },
  "meta": { "billable": false, "product": null, "requestId": "req_01J8ZK8R5S6T7U" }
}

Response fields

Errors

Notes from the ASIC register

• Snapshot. Share capital reflects the register at extract.asOf. A share issue notified after that date appears only in a newly purchased extract.
• Companies without shares. Companies limited by guarantee (class LMGT) and registered bodies have no share capital, so data is empty. An empty list is not an error.
• Members are limited to the top 20. ASIC prints the following note after the share capital section for every organisation type other than a managed investment scheme: For each class of shares issued by a proprietary company, ASIC records the details of the twenty members of the class (based on shareholdings). The details of any other members holding the same number of shares as the twentieth ranked member will also be recorded by ASIC on the database. Where available, historical records show that a member has ceased to be ranked amongst the twenty members. This may, but does not necessarily mean, that they have ceased to be a member of the company. The share capital totals cover all shares in the class, not just those held by the recorded members.
• Public companies. Since 1 July 1998 public companies are not required to notify ASIC of their members, but they must still notify changes to share capital, so this section is populated for public companies while the members list may be empty.
• Schemes. For a managed investment scheme (MISM) each record describes a class of interests rather than shares and the top 20 note does not apply.
• Amounts. ASIC records amounts paid and due in whole cents. asicapi returns them as decimal strings to avoid floating point rounding.
• Ceased classes. A ceased class is only present in a historical extract. Its sharesIssued is typically 0 and its sourceDocument is the document that cancelled or converted the class.

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