Financials
Financial year 2025
Stranger than Fiction from Gent, company number BE0564969372, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1,654 after tax. For that financial year Stranger than Fiction recorded a gross margin of € 3,814 and equity of € 41,105. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -9,437 to € 1,654. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 31, 2026.
€ 41,105
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1,654
▲ still € 9,437 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 21,388
▼ 50% 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 € 22,505.
People and assets in 2025
≈ 1
No payroll staff. One director, so that person most likely runs the business.
€ 2,188
▼ 41% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 702
▲ 21% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 5,638
▲ 3% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 4,774
▲ € 4,156 vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € -11,169 | € 31,880 | € -6,611 | € 3,814 | ▲ € 10,425 |
| Profit after taxes | € -14,424 | € 25,289 | € -9,437 | € 1,654 | ▲ € 11,091 |
| Equity | € 48,598 | € 48,888 | € 39,451 | € 41,105 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 21,240 | € 57,531 | € 24,729 | € 23,847 | ▼ 4% |
| Cash | € 31,444 | € 24,844 | € 43,017 | € 21,388 | ▼ 50% |
| Retained profit | € 29,998 | € 30,288 | € 20,851 | € 22,505 | ▲ 8% |
| Dividend | € 20,000 | € 25,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 579 | € 702 | ▲ 21% |
| Balance sheet total | € 69,838 | € 106,419 | € 64,180 | € 64,951 | ▲ 1% |
Key figures of Stranger than Fiction, 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 Stranger than Fiction?
What happened at Stranger than Fiction in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1,654. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Pieter De Poortere became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 14,424 loss in 2022 to € 1,654 profit in 2025.
Paid € 4,520 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 25,289 profit.
Paid out € 45,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind Stranger than Fiction is Pieter De Poortere. Pieter De Poortere is also behind CENTRE BELGE DE LA BANDE DESSINEE - BELGISCHE STRIPCENTRUM.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Pieter De Poortere
Director
Also active at: CENTRE BELGE DE LA BANDE DESSINEE - BELGISCHE STRIPCENTRUM
since 2014
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Adolf Baeyensstraat 64
9040 Gent
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0564.969.372
- VAT number
- BE 0564.969.372
- Registered office
- Adolf Baeyensstraat 64, 9040 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Stranger than Fiction
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 October 2014
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