Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 26.1 to 19.7.
Financials
Financial year 2025
COMET BELGIUM from Namur, company number BE0411988593, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 39,320 after tax. For that financial year COMET BELGIUM recorded a gross margin of € 1.5 million and equity of € 1.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -160,005 to € 39,320. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on March 19, 2026.
€ 1.9 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 39,320
▲ still € 160,005 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 10,724
▼ 87% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 1.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
19.7
▼ 0.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
€ 61,100 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 255,603
▲ 99% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 20,309.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.6 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
€ 102,377 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 10 years.
€ 808,671
▼ 35% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 115,230
▼ 33% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,783,669 | € 1,695,027 | € 1,217,857 | € 1,487,403 | ▲ 22% |
| Profit after taxes | € 355,017 | € 53,329 | € -160,005 | € 39,320 | ▲ € 199,324 |
| Equity | € 1,961,127 | € 2,009,859 | € 1,845,779 | € 1,881,022 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 2,935,923 | € 2,860,166 | € 3,017,798 | € 2,501,551 | ▼ 17% |
| Cash | € 15,597 | € 270,939 | € 81,162 | € 10,724 | ▼ 87% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,262,194 | € 1,181,983 | € 1,228,254 | € 1,141,641 | ▼ 7% |
| Retained profit | € 1,379,609 | € 1,432,939 | € 1,272,934 | € 1,312,254 | ▲ 3% |
| Dividend | € 170,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 1,511,929 | € 1,530,726 | € 1,593,613 | € 1,576,798 | ▼ 1% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,920,896 | € 4,884,154 | € 4,878,411 | € 4,383,379 | ▼ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 23.7 | 26.1 | 19.9 | 19.7 | ▼ 0.2 |
Key figures of COMET BELGIUM, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 March 2027.
What happened to COMET BELGIUM?
What happened at COMET BELGIUM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- E²L CAPITAL SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- NAMUR INVEST CAPITAL RISQUE SA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 39,320. Source: NBB ↗
- CHENE SARL stepped down as director. NBB
- Eric THIRY stepped down as director. NBB
- MIKE LIMA SARL stepped down as director. NBB
- E²L CAPITAL SRL became a director. NBB
- NAMUR INVEST CAPITAL RISQUE SA became a director. NBB
In short
From € 355,017 profit in 2022 to € 39,320 profit in 2025.
Paid € 2,332 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 355,017 profit.
On average € 75,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of NAMUR INVEST CAPITAL RISQUE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
COMET BELGIUMThe shares are held by NAMUR INVEST CAPITAL RISQUE (20%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
CHENE SARL
Chairman of the board · represented by Eduardus VAN EIJK
since 2023 · until 2025
Eric THIRY
Managing director
since 2023 · until 2025
MIKE LIMA SARL
Director · represented by Michel LEVEQUE
since 2023 · until 2025
Director · represented by THIRY Eric
since 2025 · until 2031
NAMUR INVEST CAPITAL RISQUE SA
Director · represented by DELAHAYE Nicolas
Also active at: Wilmet, Etablissements Guilmin, MECASOFT, GLUTTON CLEANING MACHINES, IDTECH, DOMAINE VITICOLE DU CHENOY, BRASSERIE ARTISANALE DE NAMUR, UNAMUR VENTURE +4 more
since 2025 · until 2031
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Chaussée de Perwez(SM) 301
5003 Namur
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US
DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Domain
Domain
comet-belgium.com
Registered
2002-06-21
Registrar
OVH sas
Expires
2026-06-21
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0411.988.593
- VAT number
- BE 0411.988.593
- Registered office
- Chaussée de Perwez(SM) 301, 5003 Namur
- Names & denominations
- COMET BELGIUM · COMET
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 February 1972
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 15 Oct 2025
- Contact
- comet-belgium.com
- Activities · NACE
Vervaardiging van hijs-, hef- en transportwerktuigen
Carrosserieherstelling (inclusief spuiten en verven)
Groothandel in machines voor de mijnbouw, de bouwnijverheid en de weg- en waterbouw
Vervaardiging van carrosserieën voor motorvoertuigen
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Carrosserieherstelling
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)