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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 39 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
SOMA from Diest, company number BE0460978642, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 59,818 after tax. For that financial year SOMA recorded a gross margin of € 810,252 and equity of € 4.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 207,639 to € 59,818. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 13, 2026.
€ 4.3 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 59,818
▼ 71% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 40,701
▼ 2% 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 € 2.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
5
▼ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 408,199
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 81,600 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.5 million
▼ 20% vs 2024
€ 450,679 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 150,526
▲ 125% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 146,199
▲ 41% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 913,114 | € 881,729 | € 1,045,365 | € 810,252 | ▼ 22% |
| Profit after taxes | € 215,526 | € 128,886 | € 207,639 | € 59,818 | ▼ 71% |
| Equity | € 3,910,948 | € 4,039,834 | € 4,247,473 | € 4,307,291 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 6,480,039 | € 7,029,470 | € 6,698,855 | € 8,058,542 | ▲ 20% |
| Cash | € 98,397 | € 42,957 | € 41,407 | € 40,701 | ▼ 2% |
| Land & buildings | € 3,199,411 | € 3,608,372 | € 3,587,723 | € 3,511,804 | ▼ 2% |
| Retained profit | € 1,964,512 | € 2,119,863 | € 2,353,966 | € 2,440,249 | ▲ 4% |
| Bank debt | € 2,691,196 | € 2,362,194 | € 1,886,596 | € 1,510,801 | ▼ 20% |
| Balance sheet total | € 10,488,597 | € 11,155,300 | € 11,055,185 | € 12,463,194 | ▲ 13% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.1 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of SOMA, 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 SOMA?
What happened at SOMA in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Maurits FOETS stepped down as director. NBB
- Nico VAN BUITENEN stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 59,818 (▼ 71% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Maurits FOETS became a director. NBB
- Nico VAN BUITENEN became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Diest. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 215,526 profit in 2022 to € 59,818 profit in 2025.
Paid € 270,704 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 215,526 profit.
On average € 162,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
It owns 100% of KEMPENS HEFTRUCK BEDRIJF, 99.9% of ALGEMENE ONDERNEMINGEN COUWBERGHS FRANS and 77.6% of FM BOUWMACHINES itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Maurits FOETS
Managing director
Also active at: KEMPENS HEFTRUCK BEDRIJF, FM BOUWMACHINES, DISTRIMAT, GATORS.BE
since 2021 · until 2027
Nico VAN BUITENEN
Director
Also active at: ALGEMENE ONDERNEMINGEN COUWBERGHS FRANS, KEMPENS HEFTRUCK BEDRIJF, FM BOUWMACHINES
since 2021 · until 2027
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Industrieterrein 1 2
3290 Diest
Industriepark 2 4
3290 Diest
Active since 6 November 1997
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0460.978.642
- VAT number
- BE 0460.978.642
- Registered office
- Industrieterrein 1 2, 3290 Diest
- Names & denominations
- SOMA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 30 June 1997
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 25 Nov 2025
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