Equity
Debts exceed assets in financial year 2025.
Debts exceed assets in financial year 2025.
The result fell in 2025 from €800,638 to €321,587.
Of this, €7.8m falls due within a year.
Between 2006 and 2025, 68% of the full-time equivalents disappeared.
Latest accounts filed late: after the legal deadline.
Less equity than 95% of companies in food and beverage service. Sector median €110,353 · 962 companies.
The dashed line is the sector median: 1.8% across 23,791 companies (NACE 56, micro).
About 3 in 100 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 56, micro). It does better than 24% of them on solvency, 34% on liquidity, 28% on profitability and 71% on growth.
The bankruptcy probability was computed on 06-11-2026 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 moderate class on 30-06-2025, 2.4% 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, 1,449 companies had the same profile as USTEL has now. Each dot stands for 4 companies, two years later.
Another 0.5% stopped without a precise date, possibly only after those two years.
That fits the bankruptcy probability of USTEL itself: 2.7% within 12 months.
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 1,449 companies, not a prediction for USTEL. 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 ample, with a current ratio of 2.24 (2.55 in 2024), above the usual 1.5. Short-term debt is 27.5% and cash 0.4% of total assets. However, equity is negative.
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The scores and ratios are Checked's own calculations, not a credit decision.
The company filed its last 7 accounts on average 67 days after the deadline. In the sector (NACE 56), the median for financial year 2024 was 7 days after the deadline, and 53% of those companies filed late.
| Company | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USTEL Anderlecht | €28.5m | €2.4m | -3.2% | 9.9 |
| LE DAVIS Berchem-Sainte-Agathe | €11.4m | €1.1m | 55.1% | 8 |
| SOFIAS Oud-Heverlee | €25.6m | €0.7m | 52.2% | 4.5 |
| LANAKEN INVEST Lanaken | €10.1m | €1.1m | 23.6% | - |
| WPC Bilzen-Hoeselt | €11.5m | €0.9m | 44.4% | 3.9 |
| De Montil Affligem | €5.8m | €1.4m | 41.6% | 10.1 |
| IMMO HANLEE Bruges | €8.4m | €1.2m | 9.9% | 20.1 |
These companies have the same main activity as USTEL: full-service restaurants (NACE 56111). They are comparable in size and age: total assets between €5.8m and €26m, founded between 1979 and 2005.
USTEL has existed since 1991. In 2018 the gross margin rose from €587,338 to €2.1m.
The gross margin has fallen every year since 2022.
Etablissements Kulche - Machines holds 69.14% of the shares. In June 2024, the Official Gazette published the appointment of Mehdi Benzine 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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