Losses
Every financial year from 2023 to 2025 closed with a loss. 2024 was the heaviest.
Every financial year from 2023 to 2025 closed with a loss. 2024 was the heaviest.
€1.8m of the debts are secured on the company's own assets. In 2021 that was €3.0m.
Green is investment, beige is depreciation. Machinery stands 55.9% higher than in 2024.
Short-term debts rose from €1.9m to €2.0m.
Lower net result than 95% of companies in real estate. Sector median €20,526 · 5,817 companies.
The dashed line is the sector median: 0.2% across 317 companies (NACE 68, large).
Fewer than 1 in 1,000 comparable companies go bankrupt within 12 months (an estimate).
The band follows from the bankruptcy probability. 10 more points roughly halve it.
| 75-100 | Excellent | under 0.55% |
| 60-74 | Healthy | 0.55% to 1.5% |
| 45-59 | Fair | 1.5% to 4.2% |
| 25-44 | Weak | 4.2% to 15.0% |
| 0-24 | Critical | over 15.0% |
Where the company stands within its band depends half on the bankruptcy probability and half on how it does against its sector peers (NACE 68, large). It does better than 30% of them on solvency, 66% on liquidity, 18% on profitability and 18% on growth.
The bankruptcy probability was computed on 07-11-2026 by the bankruptcy model of 2 October 2026, which learns from Belgian bankruptcies and reads the registers, the annual accounts and the Belgian Official Gazette.
The probability rests on the annual accounts with balance sheet date 31-12-2025.
Of the companies with a bankruptcy probability in the very low class on 30-06-2025, 0.1% went bankrupt within twelve months.
Some facts cap the score, however low the probability. With negative or zero equity, a heavy loss, a special status in the KBO, one missing filing or accounts filed more than 90 days late, the score is Fair at most (59). With two missing filings, it is Weak at most (44). During a judicial reorganisation or at the company's end (bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation), it is Critical at most (24).
In July 2024, 137 companies had the same profile as ETABLISSEMENTS ED. BLOCK has now. Each dot is one company, two years later.
The bankruptcy probability of ETABLISSEMENTS ED. BLOCK itself is lower: 0.1% within 12 months. It rests on far more data about ETABLISSEMENTS ED. BLOCK than the profile alone.
The method was tested on the 497,447 companies of July 2024. Each company was given the bankruptcy share of the same profile a year earlier, in July 2023. The expectation was that 1.6% would go bankrupt within 24 months. In fact 1.7% went bankrupt.
| Group | Expected | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| 2 | 0.3% | 0.5% |
| 3 | 0.5% | 0.6% |
| 4 | 0.7% | 0.8% |
| 5 | 0.9% | 0.9% |
| 6 | 1.3% | 1.5% |
| 7 | 1.6% | 1.8% |
| 8 | 1.8% | 1.8% |
| 9 | 3.0% | 3.1% |
| 10 | 5.6% | 6.2% |
A company that went bankrupt had a higher expected share than one that kept going in 74.5% of comparisons. The level depends on the economy. In a year with more bankruptcies than the year before, the actual share is higher than the expected one.
This is an observation about 137 companies, not a prediction for ETABLISSEMENTS ED. BLOCK. The sector does not count, because the KBO no longer lists a sector for a company that has stopped. By sector, mostly the survivors would count, which would paint too rosy a picture.
Liquidity is tight, with a current ratio of 1.12 (0.56 in 2024), below the usual 1.5. Short-term debt is 2.8% and cash 1.2% of total assets. 86% of the assets are financed with debt and provisions.
Show the recommended maximum and see how the verdict changes with amount, term and advance.
The scores and ratios are Checked's own calculations, not a credit decision.
The company filed its last 7 accounts on average 14 days after the deadline. In the sector (NACE 68), the median for financial year 2024 was 7 days before the deadline, and 36% of those companies filed late.
| Company | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETABLISSEMENTS ED. BLOCK Ghent | €72.9m | €1.8m | 14.0% | - |
| BUILD 4 U Aalst | €85.3m | €2.2m | 82.1% | 0 |
| Rock Izegem Oostkamp | €63.0m | €1.9m | 51.0% | 0 |
| B.P.A. Lier | €49.6m | €1.3m | 59.6% | 2.7 |
| CAPTUUR Roeselare | €44.2m | €1.9m | 24.6% | 4.3 |
| IMROCO Heist-op-den-Berg | €47.4m | €1.4m | 41.8% | - |
| B.J.P. Catering Waterloo | €46.7m | €2.2m | 57.8% | - |
These companies have the same main activity as ETABLISSEMENTS ED. BLOCK: real estate agency activities (NACE 68310). They are comparable in size and age: total assets between €44m and €85m, founded between 1979 and 2000.
Solvency fell in 2025 from 25.0% to 14.0% because of the loss and higher long-term debts.
Granit Europe holds all the shares. In February 2022, the Official Gazette published the appointment of TLSG Holding LLC as managing director.
Sources: KBO register, filings at the National Bank, Belgian Official Gazette. Click a figure with a dotted line for the item and the filing.
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