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Sector benchmark

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 38

Waste collection and treatment

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.

All sectors
Ratios of NACE 38, financial year 2025
Ratio Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Median 2021 to 2025 Accounts
SolvencySolvency19.3% 38.6% 62.3% 730
Debt to equitySolvency0.29 1.05 2.71 730
Long-term debt ratioSolvency0.07 0.42 1.15 436
Interest coverageSolvency2.98 12.03 34.02 646
Current ratioLiquidity0.86 1.39 2.62 721
Quick ratioLiquidity0.70 1.23 2.40 722
Working-capital ratioLiquidity-6.2% 15.3% 44.7% 731
Return on equityProfitability0.1% 9.1% 24.4% 647
Return on assetsProfitability-1.2% 2.6% 8.9% 731
Net marginProfitability0.0% 2.7% 6.6% 181
EBITDA marginProfitability4.1% 9.5% 17.4% 171
Gross marginProfitability27.9% 58.0% 84.8% 168
Days sales outstandingCredit terms41 days 70 days 95 days 182
Days payable outstandingCredit termstoo few accounts
Days inventoryCredit terms14 days 48 days 123 days 137

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, 33 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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