USC
ActiveFrom the official registers: KBO 18 annual accounts at the National Bank publications in the Belgian Official Gazette
Summary
USC has been active since 2006 and the Belgian Official Gazette contains no insolvency or warning signals. The 2025 annual accounts show negative equity (-€486,847) and a net result of €36,949. Equity has been stable since 2019 (±0% per year). The computed 12-month bankruptcy probability is 0.6% (low).
Financials · financial year 2025, unclassified schema
2025 annual accounts filed 3 days after the deadline Filed on 3 February 2026, deadline 31 January 2026 (7 months after the close on 30 June 2025, Companies Code art. 3:10). Source: NBB, 2026-00029735.
Annual accounts 2025
- Financial year ended
- 30-06-2025
- Filed on
- 03-02-2026
- Format
- unclassified schema
- Reference
- 2026-00029735
2021 to 2025, 5 financial years 2019 to 2025, 7 financial years
The operating result for 2025 is over 4.1 times that of 2024 and the highest since 2021. It is a recovery after the fall in 2024.
Turnover is what the company sold, the result is what was left of it. A loss stands below the zero line.
Assets, equity and debt per financial year.
Above zero, the company can pay its short-term debts with what it holds in the short term.
The EBIT margin is the share of each euro of turnover left from operations. The return on assets is what the assets earn.
The higher the solvency, the better the company absorbs a setback.
A ratio above 1 means the short-term assets cover the short-term debts.
Use the arrow keys on the chart for the figures per year.
The sector band is the middle half of the companies in Retail trade (NACE 47). A quarter of them sit below it, a quarter above. Each year counts only accounts in the same format, and only where there are at least 30. The dashed line is the median. There is a sector band for net result, equity, total assets, working capital, solvency, current ratio and return on assets (ROA).
Companies with the same profile, two years later
Historical observationIn July 2024, 317 companies had the same profile as USC has now. Two years later, 1.6% had gone bankrupt and 91.8% were still going.
- Small
- 20 years or older
- negative equity
- a profit of 5% of the balance sheet or more
Another 2.5% stopped without a precise date, possibly only after those two years.
That fits the bankruptcy probability of USC itself: 0.6% within 12 months.
Test of the method
The method was tested on the 497,445 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 317 companies, not a prediction for USC. 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.
| Line | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-recurring operating income76A | - | - | - | - | €15,000 | - | - | - |
| Depreciation of and write-downs on formation expenses, intangible and tangible fixed assets630 | €23,165 | €19,536 | €19,629 | €13,866 | €11,984 | €12,256 | €12,256 | = |
| Other operating charges640/8 | - | - | - | €57 | €64 | €64 | €65 | ▲ 1.6% |
| Gross operating margin9900 | €40,098 | €20,604 | €12,274 | €24,861 | €26,043 | €23,638 | €59,054 | ▲ 150% |
| Operating profit (loss)9901 | €16,879 | €893 | -€7,535 | €10,938 | €13,995 | €11,318 | €46,733 | ▲ 313% |
| Financial income75/76B | - | - | - | €7,579 | €12,754 | €7,715 | €6,597 | ▼ 14.5% |
| Recurring financial income75 | €12,521 | €17,205 | €16,853 | €7,579 | €12,754 | €7,715 | €6,597 | ▼ 14.5% |
| Financial charges65/66B | - | - | - | €23,436 | €20,991 | €18,831 | €16,352 | ▼ 13.2% |
| Recurring financial charges65 | €24,398 | €29,068 | €23,584 | €23,436 | €20,991 | €18,831 | €16,352 | ▼ 13.2% |
| Profit (loss) for the period before taxes9903 | €5,002 | -€10,970 | -€14,266 | -€4,919 | €5,758 | €202 | €36,978 | ▲ 183× |
| Income taxes67/77 | €285 | €379 | €798 | €330 | €126 | - | €29 | - |
| Profit (loss) for the period9904 | €4,717 | -€11,349 | -€15,064 | -€5,249 | €5,632 | €202 | €36,949 | ▲ 183× |
| Profit (loss) for the period to be appropriated9905 | €4,717 | -€11,349 | -€15,064 | -€5,249 | €5,632 | €202 | €36,949 | ▲ 183× |
| Line | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assets | ||||||||
| Total assets20/58 | €0.8m | €0.8m | €0.7m | €0.7m | €0.7m | €0.6m | €0.6m | ▼ 5.4% |
| Fixed assets21/28 | €0.3m | €0.3m | €0.3m | €0.3m | €0.3m | €0.2m | €0.2m | ▼ 5.1% |
| Tangible fixed assets22/27 | €0.3m | €0.3m | €0.3m | €0.3m | €0.3m | €0.2m | €0.2m | ▼ 5.1% |
| Land and buildings22 | - | - | - | €0.3m | €0.2m | €0.2m | €0.2m | ▼ 4.9% |
| Plant, machinery and equipment23 | - | - | - | €0.001m | €0.001m | €0.001m | €0.001m | ▼ 31.6% |
| Furniture and vehicles24 | - | - | - | €0 | €0.002m | €0.001m | €0.001m | ▼ 25.4% |
| Current assets29/58 | €0.5m | €0.5m | €0.5m | €0.4m | €0.4m | €0.4m | €0.3m | ▼ 5.6% |
| Amounts receivable after more than one year29 | - | - | - | €0.4m | €0.3m | €0.3m | €0.3m | ▼ 2.7% |
| Other amounts receivable291 | - | - | - | €0.4m | €0.3m | €0.3m | €0.3m | ▼ 2.7% |
| Stocks and contracts in progress3 | €0.02m | €0.01m | €0.01m | €0.01m | €0.01m | €0.01m | €0.01m | = |
| Stocks30/36 | - | - | - | €0.01m | €0.01m | €0.01m | €0.01m | = |
| Amounts receivable within one year40/41 | €0.06m | €0.06m | €0.03m | €0.03m | €0.03m | €0.03m | €0.02m | ▼ 48.1% |
| Trade receivables40 | - | - | - | €0.03m | €0.03m | €0.03m | €0.02m | ▼ 48.1% |
| Other amounts receivable41 | - | - | - | €0.001m | €170 | - | - | - |
| Cash at bank and in hand54/58 | €0.04m | €0.02m | €0.03m | €0.05m | €0.03m | €0.002m | €0.006m | ▲ 163% |
| Deferred charges and accrued income490/1 | - | - | - | €0.001m | €343 | €321 | €0.001m | ▲ 181% |
| Equity and liabilities | ||||||||
| Total equity and liabilities10/49 | €0.8m | €0.8m | €0.7m | €0.7m | €0.7m | €0.6m | €0.6m | ▼ 5.4% |
| Equity10/15 | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | ▲ 7.1% |
| Contributions10/11 | €0.02m | €0.02m | - | €0.02m | €0.02m | €0.02m | €0.02m | = |
| Profit (loss) carried forward14 | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | -€0.5m | ▲ 6.8% |
| Amounts payable17/49 | €1.3m | €1.3m | €1.2m | €1.2m | €1.2m | €1.1m | €1.0m | ▼ 6.2% |
| Amounts payable after more than one year17 | €1.3m | €1.2m | €1.2m | €1.1m | €1.1m | €1.0m | €0.9m | ▼ 4.7% |
| Financial debts170/4 | - | - | - | €1.1m | €1.1m | €1.0m | €0.9m | ▼ 4.7% |
| Amounts payable within one year42/48 | €0.04m | €0.04m | €0.04m | €0.1m | €0.1m | €0.1m | €0.1m | ▼ 14.6% |
| Current portion of amounts payable after more than one year42 | - | - | - | €0.04m | €0.04m | €0.04m | €0.05m | ▲ 5.2% |
| Trade debts44 | €0.003m | €249 | €0.002m | €0.001m | €249 | €0.002m | €227 | ▼ 90.3% |
| Suppliers440/4 | - | - | - | €0.001m | €249 | €0.002m | €227 | ▼ 90.3% |
| Taxes, remuneration and social security45 | - | - | - | - | €0.001m | €0.003m | €0.003m | ▲ 15.7% |
| Taxes450/3 | - | - | - | - | €0.001m | €0.003m | €0.003m | ▲ 15.7% |
| Other amounts payable47/48 | - | - | - | €0.08m | €0.09m | €0.08m | €0.06m | ▼ 23.6% |
| Accrued charges and deferred income492/3 | - | - | - | - | - | €0.004m | - | - |
| Line | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit (loss) for the period9904 | €4,717 | -€11,349 | -€15,064 | -€5,249 | €5,632 | €202 | €36,949 | ▲ 183× |
| + Depreciation and write-downs630 | €23,165 | €19,536 | €19,629 | €13,866 | €11,984 | €12,256 | €12,256 | = |
| Operating cash flow (approximation) | €27,882 | €8,187 | €4,565 | €8,617 | €17,616 | €12,458 | €49,205 | ▲ 295% |
| Investment in fixed assets (approximation) | - | -€9,497 | €0 | €0 | -€3,026 | €0 | €0 | - |
| Change in cash | - | -€17,209 | €8,945 | €22,100 | -€20,222 | -€29,785 | €3,961 | - |
A Belgian filing has no cash-flow statement. These rows are therefore an approximation, derived from the income statement and the balance-sheet moves.
Latest 10 of 18 filings with the National Bank
| Financial year | Type | Filed | Reference | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30-06-2025 | unclassified schema | 03-02-2026 | 2026-00029735 | |
| 30-06-2024 | unclassified schema | 30-01-2025 | 2025-00016967 | |
| 30-06-2023 | unclassified schema | 02-02-2024 | 2024-00025537 | |
| 30-06-2022 | unclassified schema | 01-02-2023 | 2023-00025769 | |
| 30-06-2021 | unclassified schema | 04-02-2022 | 2022-04900190 | |
| 30-06-2020 | abbreviated format | 22-01-2021 | 2021-02600045 | |
| 30-06-2019 | abbreviated format | 12-03-2020 | 2020-06500215 | |
| 30-06-2018 | abbreviated format | 13-02-2019 | 2019-05000305 | |
| 30-06-2017 | abbreviated format | 16-02-2018 | 2018-05000461 | |
| 30-06-2016 | full format | 27-01-2017 | 2017-02900012 |
Comparable companies
These companies have the same main activity as USC: retail sale of hardware, building materials, paint and glass (general range) (NACE 47521). They are comparable in size and age: total assets between €511,000 and €750,000, founded between 2004 and 2008.
| Company | Founded | Total assets | Equity | Gross margin | Net result | FTE | Financial year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USC Kelmis | 2006 | €562,690 | -€486,847 | €59,054 | €36,949 | - | 2025 |
| IMMOBILIERE DE LA BARRIERE DE VILLERS Mons | 2007 | €573,742 | €406,455 | €54,054 | €1,826 | - | 2025 |
| LESEINE CONSTRUCT BELGIUM Couvin | 2005 | €510,605 | €258,983 | €64,794 | -€23,675 | - | 2025 |
| FOQUE Kontich | 2008 | €582,450 | €406,759 | €61,831 | €26,083 | - | 2025 |
| LOIX J.M. Tintigny | 2004 | €627,583 | €591,679 | €62,797 | -€33,937 | - | 2025 |
| SEBONT Visé | 2007 | €750,064 | €648,169 | €86,610 | €24,364 | - | 2025 |
| Brico Sari Gent | 2005 | €684,721 | €136,402 | €86,600 | -€10,404 | 2.5 | 2025 |
They were chosen from the 1,277 other active companies with that main activity and annual accounts from the past two years. All companies with this main activity
Public contracts: No European public contracts awarded found since October 2016. Contracts below the EU thresholds are not in TED.