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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 19 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Oostaco from Gent, company number BE0456552769, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -239,208 after tax. For that financial year Oostaco recorded a gross margin of € 375,727 and equity of € 99,847. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 50,492 to € -239,208. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 71 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 19, 2026.
€ 99,847
▼ 71% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -239,208
▼ still € 50,492 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 36,544
▼ 9% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 37,874.
People and assets in 2025
16.1
▼ 1.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 448,589
▼ 17% vs 2024
€ 27,900 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.
€ 27,043
▼ 20% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 185,965
▼ 27% vs 2024
€ 83,788 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 1 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 56,084
▼ 11% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 784,776 | € 701,035 | € 741,952 | € 375,727 | ▼ 49% |
| Profit after taxes | € 303,715 | € 90,275 | € 50,492 | € -239,208 | ▼ € 289,700 |
| Equity | € 198,288 | € 288,562 | € 339,055 | € 99,847 | ▼ 71% |
| Total debts | € 1,145,528 | € 2,674,134 | € 1,408,975 | € 1,337,434 | ▼ 5% |
| Cash | € 77,510 | € 137,762 | € 40,186 | € 36,544 | ▼ 9% |
| Land & buildings | € 702,946 | € 619,058 | € 535,169 | € 476,641 | ▼ 11% |
| Retained profit | € 136,314 | € 226,589 | € 277,082 | € 37,874 | ▼ 86% |
| Bank debt | € 402,584 | € 328,775 | € 254,279 | € 185,965 | ▼ 27% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,343,816 | € 2,962,696 | € 1,748,030 | € 1,437,281 | ▼ 18% |
| Employees (FTE) | 12.4 | 14.6 | 17.6 | 16.1 | ▼ 1.5 |
Key figures of Oostaco, 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 May 2027.
What happened to Oostaco?
What happened at Oostaco in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Corrected annual accounts filed for financial year 2025. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Els De Smet became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 303,715 profit in 2022 to € 239,208 loss in 2025.
Paid € 14,254 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 303,715 profit.
On average € 23,300 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind Oostaco is Els De Smet. The shares are held by Els De Smet.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Oostakkerdorp 12
9041 Gent
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0456.552.769
- VAT number
- BE 0456.552.769
- Registered office
- Oostakkerdorp 12, 9041 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Oostaco
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 November 1995
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 2 Nov 2025
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