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You see every sector's ratios. For a company you see every ratio over five financial years, with its place among its sector peers. The report is ready to print for your client.

Sector · NACE 25

Fabricated metal products

The table shows every ratio of the sector for financial year 2025, with the median and the middle half of the companies and the median over the last years. Compare a company of this sector with it.

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Ratios of NACE 25, financial year 2025
Ratio Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Median 2021 to 2025 Accounts
SolvencySolvency23.5% 45.3% 69.1% 4,377
Debt to equitySolvency0.31 0.92 2.34 4,348
Long-term debt ratioSolvency0.10 0.36 1.16 2,696
Interest coverageSolvency4.45 13.10 42.68 4,157
Current ratioLiquidity1.07 1.70 3.22 4,344
Quick ratioLiquidity0.79 1.44 2.82 4,345
Working-capital ratioLiquidity3.3% 25.8% 51.9% 4,368
Return on equityProfitability1.8% 12.8% 30.5% 4,054
Return on assetsProfitability0.3% 5.2% 13.6% 4,381
Net marginProfitability-0.2% 3.0% 9.3% 415
EBITDA marginProfitability3.3% 8.6% 16.6% 400
Gross marginProfitability28.2% 43.1% 58.6% 405
Days sales outstandingCredit terms36 days 59 days 88 days 415
Days payable outstandingCredit terms32 days 56 days 88 days 436
Days inventoryCredit terms36 days 83 days 161 days 356

A quarter of the companies sit below the lower quartile, a quarter above the upper quartile. The figures come from every schema's own (statutory) accounts. A financial year counts once it holds at least half as many accounts as the year before. For financial year 2026, 164 accounts have been filed so far.

Report contents for a company

Fifteen ratios

You see solvency, leverage, liquidity, returns, margins and credit terms from the filed annual accounts.

Real sector peers

Each financial year is set against the quartiles of every Belgian company in the same NACE division or class, of the same size if you like.

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