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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 3 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 65 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
AXENT from Herentals, company number BE0443984836, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 19,393 after tax. For that financial year AXENT recorded a gross margin of € 167,621 and equity of € -36,407. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 819 to € 19,393. Profitable, and profit is growing. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 29, 2026.
€ -36,407
▲ € 19,393 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 19,393
▲ € 18,574 vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € -56,858.
People and assets in 2025
€ 134,685
▼ 15% vs 2024
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 2,143
▲ 36% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 26,879
▼ 34% vs 2024
€ 12,927 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 169,536
▲ 196% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 19,077
▼ 18% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 177,072 | € 14,276 | € 175,555 | € 167,621 | ▼ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € 105,967 | € -82,455 | € 819 | € 19,393 | ▲ € 18,574 |
| Equity | € 25,836 | € -56,619 | € -55,800 | € -36,407 | ▲ € 19,393 |
| Total debts | € 176,763 | € 190,245 | € 168,745 | € 276,952 | ▲ 64% |
| Cash | € 39,746 | € 425 | € 4,676 | - | |
| Land & buildings | € 22,225 | € 22,078 | € 21,365 | € 21,119 | ▼ 1% |
| Retained profit | € 5,385 | € -77,071 | € -76,251 | € -56,858 | ▲ € 19,393 |
| Bank debt | € 32,419 | € 87,755 | € 41,002 | € 26,879 | ▼ 34% |
| Balance sheet total | € 202,599 | € 133,626 | € 112,945 | € 240,545 | ▲ 113% |
Key figures of AXENT, 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 July 2027.
What happened to AXENT?
What happened at AXENT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 19,393 (▲ € 18,574 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Anita Augusta Mertens became a director. NBB
- Sacha Josephina Van Orlé became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Westerlo. KBO
- New establishment in Herentals. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 105,967 profit in 2022 to € 19,393 profit in 2025.
Paid € 18,352 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 105,967 profit.
Management
Behind AXENT are Anita Augusta Mertens and Sacha Josephina Van Orlé.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Anita Augusta Mertens
Director
since 2021
Sacha Josephina Van Orlé
Director
since 2021
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Hulseinde(NDW) 10
2200 Herentals
Boskant 12
2260 Westerlo
Active since 1 July 1993
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0443.984.836
- VAT number
- BE 0443.984.836
- Registered office
- Hulseinde(NDW) 10, 2200 Herentals
- Names & denominations
- AXENT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 April 1991
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- Active · Active since 29 Aug 2023
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