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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 37 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
DE POORT from Gent, company number BE0518930402, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 73,254 after tax. For that financial year DE POORT recorded a gross margin of € 296,559 and equity of € 183,870. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 84,415 to € 73,254. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on December 23, 2025.
€ 183,870
▼ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 73,254
▼ 13% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 32,075
▼ 10% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 80,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
2.6
▲ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 174,678
▲ 9% vs 2024
€ 67,200 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.
€ 18,573
▼ 16% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 24,331
▲ 29% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 121,000
▼ 2% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 29,829
▼ 2% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 229,429 | € 269,051 | € 285,581 | € 296,559 | ▲ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 54,194 | € 73,134 | € 84,415 | € 73,254 | ▼ 13% |
| Equity | € 163,068 | € 176,202 | € 190,617 | € 183,870 | ▼ 4% |
| Total debts | € 209,480 | € 251,171 | € 289,944 | € 345,286 | ▲ 19% |
| Cash | € 25,346 | € 18,650 | € 35,644 | € 32,075 | ▼ 10% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,695 | € 0 | - | - | |
| Retained profit | € 49,068 | € 62,202 | € 76,617 | € 69,870 | ▼ 9% |
| Dividend | € 50,000 | € 60,000 | € 70,000 | € 80,000 | ▲ 14% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 3,381 | € 18,831 | € 24,331 | ▲ 29% |
| Balance sheet total | € 372,548 | € 427,373 | € 480,560 | € 529,156 | ▲ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.6 | ▲ 0.4 |
Key figures of DE POORT, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to DE POORT?
What happened at DE POORT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 73,254 (▼ 13% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- LAKE BV became a director. NBB
- JB CONSULT BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 54,194 profit in 2022 to € 73,254 profit in 2025.
Paid € 104,496 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 84,415 profit.
On average € 114,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of LAKE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DE POORTBehind DE POORT are LAKE BV and JB CONSULT BV. The shares are held by LAKE (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2021
since 2021
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Nederkouter 137
9000 Gent
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 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
- 0518.930.402
- VAT number
- BE 0518.930.402
- Registered office
- Nederkouter 137, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- DE POORT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 25 February 2013
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 24 Nov 2023
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