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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 47 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 43.1 to 32.9.
Financials
Financial year 2025
H.M. Socquet from Ans, company number BE0431156783, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -52,349 after tax. For that financial year H.M. Socquet recorded a gross margin of € 1.9 million and equity of € 259,350. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -960,565 to € -52,349. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on May 28, 2026.
€ 259,350
▼ 17% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -52,349
▲ 95 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 21,689
▼ 87% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -574,187.
People and assets in 2025
32.9
▼ 9.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.7 million
▼ 62% vs 2024
€ 52,300 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.
€ 45,219
▼ 34% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 1,425.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.6 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 54,458 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 759,454
▼ 35% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 186,906
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 2,462,468 | € 2,660,445 | € 3,842,433 | € 1,938,116 | ▼ 50% |
| Profit after taxes | € -21,144 | € 9,781 | € -960,565 | € -52,349 | ▲ € 908,216 |
| Equity | € 601,402 | € 607,893 | € 314,299 | € 259,350 | ▼ 17% |
| Total debts | € 2,618,393 | € 2,620,559 | € 3,147,897 | € 2,588,194 | ▼ 18% |
| Cash | € 246,994 | € 142,708 | € 172,194 | € 21,689 | ▼ 87% |
| Land & buildings | € 695,625 | € 660,265 | € 997,006 | € 921,028 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 403,215 | € 412,996 | € -547,569 | € -574,187 | ▼ € 26,619 |
| Bank debt | € 1,659,832 | € 1,831,794 | € 1,724,550 | € 1,593,672 | ▼ 8% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,226,662 | € 3,234,859 | € 3,467,756 | € 2,852,450 | ▼ 18% |
| Employees (FTE) | 45.1 | 43.1 | 42.7 | 32.9 | ▼ 9.8 |
Key figures of H.M. Socquet, fiscal years 2021 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 May 2027.
What happened to H.M. Socquet?
What happened at H.M. Socquet in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- HMS GROUP SA stepped down as director. NBB
- Marianne BASECQ stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 52,349. Source: NBB ↗
- HMS GROUP SA became a director. NBB
- Marianne BASECQ became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Ans. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 21,144 loss in 2021 to € 52,349 loss in 2025.
Paid € 32,401 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 9,781 profit.
On average € 58,900 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of HMS GROUP comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
H.M. SocquetThe shares are held by HMS GROUP (99%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Xavier DUTAILLY
since 2022 · until 2029
since 2022 · until 2029
Shareholders
99%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue Marie Curie 14
4431 Ans
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0431.156.783
- VAT number
- BE 0431.156.783
- Registered office
- Rue Marie Curie 14, 4431 Ans
- Names & denominations
- H.M. Socquet · HMS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 6 May 1987
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 26 Nov 2025
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