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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 50

Water transport

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 50, financial year 2025
Ratio Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Median 2021 to 2025 Accounts
SolvencySolvency16.0% 43.8% 73.9% 311
Debt to equitySolvency0.11 0.72 2.36 310
Long-term debt ratioSolvency0.04 0.45 1.77 163
Interest coverageSolvency3.07 8.19 37.21 266
Current ratioLiquidity0.88 1.77 4.55 306
Quick ratioLiquidity0.87 1.72 4.46 306
Working-capital ratioLiquidity-2.7% 17.4% 54.6% 309
Return on equityProfitability0.3% 10.2% 31.1% 270
Return on assetsProfitability-1.6% 2.6% 12.2% 313
Net marginProfitability0.6% 5.4% 13.4% 45
EBITDA marginProfitability2.5% 12.8% 28.6% 41
Gross marginProfitability12.3% 34.0% 63.4% 32
Days sales outstandingCredit terms34 days 55 days 86 days 44
Days payable outstandingCredit terms34 days 52 days 102 days 44
Days inventoryCredit termstoo few accounts

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.

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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