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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 1 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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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 5 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
L.Y M Invest from Sint-Martens-Latem, company number BE0459329642, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -15,155 after tax. For that financial year L.Y M Invest recorded a gross margin of € 115,517 and equity of € -10,407. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -39,497 to € -15,155. The company made a loss. 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 October 30, 2025.
€ -10,407
▼ € 15,155 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -15,155
▲ 62 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 113,942
▲ 65% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -28,957.
People and assets in 2025
€ 14,443
▼ 32% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 87,265
▼ 18% vs 2024
€ 18,732 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 3,234
▼ 36% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 822
▼ 80% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 253,268 | € 6,826 | € 87,458 | € 115,517 | ▲ 32% |
| Profit after taxes | € 13,518 | € -117,802 | € -39,497 | € -15,155 | ▲ € 24,341 |
| Equity | € 162,046 | € 44,245 | € 4,748 | € -10,407 | ▼ € 15,155 |
| Total debts | € 2,936,576 | € 2,853,053 | € 2,877,323 | € 2,776,671 | ▼ 3% |
| Cash | € 87,072 | € 50,035 | € 68,997 | € 113,942 | ▲ 65% |
| Land & buildings | € 2,834,644 | € 2,796,240 | € 2,726,560 | € 2,624,875 | ▼ 4% |
| Retained profit | € 143,496 | € 25,695 | € -13,802 | € -28,957 | ▼ € 15,155 |
| Bank debt | € 654,788 | € 135,928 | € 105,828 | € 87,265 | ▼ 18% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,098,622 | € 2,897,298 | € 2,882,071 | € 2,766,263 | ▼ 4% |
Key figures of L.Y M Invest, 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 October 2026.
What happened to L.Y M Invest?
What happened at L.Y M Invest in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 15,155. Source: NBB ↗
- Etienne Meirlaen became a director. NBB
- Steven Meirlaen became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 13,518 profit in 2022 to € 15,155 loss in 2025.
Paid € 7,313 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 13,518 profit.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind L.Y M Invest are Steven Meirlaen and Etienne Meirlaen.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Steven Meirlaen
Director
since 2003
Etienne Meirlaen
Director
since 2014
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Palepelstraat 4
9830 Sint-Martens-Latem
Zwijnaardsesteenweg 548
9000 Gent
Active since 4 March 1997
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
- 0459.329.642
- VAT number
- BE 0459.329.642
- Registered office
- Palepelstraat 4, 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem
- Names & denominations
- L.Y M Invest
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 28 November 1996
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 17 Nov 2025
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