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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 54 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
SCO Legal from Mechelen, company number BE0665664280, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 103,249 after tax. For that financial year SCO Legal recorded a gross margin of € 187,290 and equity of € 61,459. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 40,512 to € 103,249. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 79 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 15, 2026.
€ 61,459
▼ 79% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 103,249
▲ 155% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 38,943
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 341,062 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
€ 20,170
▼ 34% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 242,893
▼ 15% vs 2024
€ 32,075 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 3,094
▼ 23% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 23,806
▲ 70% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 112,097 | € 194,665 | € 111,029 | € 187,290 | ▲ 69% |
| Profit after taxes | € 42,859 | € 104,926 | € 40,512 | € 103,249 | ▲ 155% |
| Equity | € 203,829 | € 286,577 | € 293,072 | € 61,459 | ▼ 79% |
| Total debts | € 434,445 | € 415,449 | € 379,924 | € 598,513 | ▲ 58% |
| Cash | € 6,779 | € 54,250 | € 0 | € 38,943 | |
| Land & buildings | € 509,863 | € 481,129 | € 453,459 | € 420,164 | ▼ 7% |
| Retained profit | € 191,429 | € 274,177 | € 280,672 | € 42,859 | ▼ 85% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 22,179 | € 34,016 | € 341,062 | ▲ € 307,046 |
| Bank debt | € 352,522 | € 316,510 | € 287,441 | € 242,893 | ▼ 15% |
| Balance sheet total | € 638,275 | € 702,026 | € 672,996 | € 659,973 | ▼ 2% |
Key figures of SCO Legal, 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 SCO Legal?
What happened at SCO Legal in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 103,249 (▲ 155% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
- Sara Maria Cockx became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 42,859 profit in 2022 to € 103,249 profit in 2025.
Paid € 85,416 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 104,926 profit.
Paid out € 397,257 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind SCO Legal is Sara Maria Cockx. It owns 20% of Stappers Advocaten itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Sara Maria Cockx
Director
since 2016
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Lange Nieuwstraat 27 box 301
2800 Mechelen
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
- 0665.664.280
- VAT number
- BE 0665.664.280
- Registered office
- Lange Nieuwstraat 27 bus 301, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- SCO Legal
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 2 November 2016
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