Opticable NV

The annual accounts of Opticable in plain language: turnover, profit and equity for financial year 2023.

Updated on 06/10/2026

BankruptcyManufacture of fibre optic cables

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NBB · financial year 2023 · full format · filed on 28/08/2024

filed 28/08/2024

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financial year 2023

Opticable made a loss in 2023 and sold over 42 million euros.

Loss in 2023
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Financial year 2023 closed with a loss of €6.93m. amounts to €16.44m, or 54% of .

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Results

People and equity

Cash and debt

· sales and services (only in the full format)€42.06m in 2023

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the story of 2023 · Filed on 28/08/2024

Profit€61,000Stays in the company€41,000To the shareholders€20,000

What do these steps mean?

Gross margin: what is left of sales after purchases and services (e.g. rent, energy, subcontracting)
Staff costs: wages, social security contributions and pensions
Other costs: write-downs, provisions and miscellaneous operating costs
Depreciation: the annual wear and tear on buildings, machinery and vehicles
Financial result: interest and other financial income minus costs
Taxes: corporate income tax

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Assets and financing Pro

snapshot at 31/12/2023

What the company owns · where the money goes

Fixed assetsbuildings, machinery, vehicles, holdings€310,000

Inventories€90,000

Receivableswhat customers and others still owe€260,000

Cashin the bank and invested€320,000

How it is financed · where the money comes from

Equitycapital and retained earnings€420,000 · 43%

Debts due after more than one year€180,000

Debts due within one year€380,000Suppliers€150,000Other (e.g. dividend payable)€100,000Taxes and wages€90,000Bank and loans€40,000

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Based on the 2023 annual accounts, filed on 28/08/2024 · adapted Piotroski score

Performing strongly7 out of 88 rules can be calculated, 1 does not apply to this format. From 75% met: performing strongly; up to 40%: performing weakly.

In order · 7

✓Profit€65,880

profit after tax is positive

✓Positive cash flow€107,880

profit plus depreciation is positive (approximation, there is no cash flow statement)

✓Return is rising9.5% → 9.8%

operating result relative to total assets, compared with last year; met if it rises

✓Profit comes from operations100%

operating result positive and at least half of the result before tax

✓Long-term debt is unchanged18.4% → 18.4%

debts due after one year relative to total assets; met if it falls or stays the same

✓No capital injection€0

equity grows no more than the profit kept in the company

✓Gross margin is rising€494,700 → €510,000

gross margin in euros, compared with last year (no turnover in this format); met if it rises

Not in order · 1

✕Liquidity is unchanged1.76 → 1.76

current assets relative to short-term debts; met if it rises

–Turnover relative to the balance sheet

not applicable: no turnover in the abridged format

How is this calculated?

An adapted version of Joseph Piotroski's F-score (2000): yes/no rules on the annual accounts, each compared with the previous financial year. SMEs do not file a cash flow statement, so we use profit plus depreciation as cash flow. "Profit comes from operations" replaces the comparison of cash flow and profit, and "no capital injection" replaces "no new shares". Rules without data (such as turnover in the abridged format) drop out, hence "x out of y". Explained step by step, with an example

Return on capital employed16%operating result ÷ (equity + long-term debt)

Stabilitystablegross margin and operating result over 5 years

Net debt ÷ EBITDAnet cashmore cash than financial debt

Equity growth5.1%per year, over 4 years

Stays in the company65.1%of profit, not paid out

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Health Pro

Based on the 2023 annual accounts, filed on 28/08/2024 · Altman model (Z'')

Healthy, but performing moderately

Healthy and performing well

Weaker balance sheet and performing moderately

Performing well, but weaker balance sheet

Opticable

Healthy and performing well. Solid balance sheet (healthy zone). 7 of the 8 quality rules are met; not met: liquidity is unchanged.

Health4.65Healthy zone (Altman model) · how vulnerable is the company?

01.12.66+

Quality7 out of 8Performing strongly · how well is the company performing? To the rules ↓

How is the score of 4.65 built up?

Working capitalcurrent assets minus short-term debts, relative to the balance sheet total30%+1.94

Retained earningsreserves and retained result, relative to the balance sheet total39%+1.26

Returnoperating result relative to the balance sheet total10%+0.66

Equity versus debtequity divided by all debts and provisions0.75+0.79

Z'' = 6.56 × working capital/total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings/total assets + 6.72 × operating result/total assets + 1.05 × equity/liabilities. Edward Altman's model (1995) for private companies, public and widely used. Above 2.6 a company is in the healthy zone, below 1.1 in the vulnerable zone. In Altman's research, companies in the vulnerable zone ran into trouble more often. Explained step by step, with an example

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An indication based on the filed annual accounts, using public models: Altman (Z'') and an adapted Piotroski score. Not credit advice: payment behaviour, recent events and guarantees are not included.
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Gross margin€250,000

Higher than 62% of the group
median €250,000

Gross margin growth (3 years)+6% per year

Higher than 48% of the group
median +6% per year

Solvency38%

Higher than 71% of the group
median 38%

Liquidity1.40

Higher than 55% of the group
median 1.40

Staff12 FTE

Higher than 40% of the group
median 12 FTE

middle half of the groupmedian

Ranking by gross margin#12 of 80in this group · #140 of 900 with the same activity in Belgium

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Results

Balance sheet

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Turnover

Staff costs

EBITDA

Operating result

Short-term debts

Cash and cash equivalents

Working capital

Staff (FTE)

in thousands of euroschange from the previous year	2023
Results
	5,404
9904	-6,928
Balance sheet
10/15	16,445
20/58	30,224
Debts	12,690
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Turnover	9.415
Staff costs	1.207.450
EBITDA	1.207.450
Operating result	1.207.450
Short-term debts	1.207.450
Cash and cash equivalents	84.210
Working capital	84.210
Staff (FTE)	1.207.450

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Ratios calculated by Nummo: solvency = equity / balance sheet total, liquidity = current assets / short-term debts. Sector median: Manufacture of wiring and wiring devices · NACE 27.3 · All sizes · Belgium. Micro and abridged formats do not report turnover; that is why the gross margin takes centre stage.

Sources

Board, registered office, activities, mergers: Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, as of 23/10/2026 · view ↗
Figures, shareholders, subsidiaries, audit: Annual accounts to 31/12/2023, filed on 28/08/2024 with the National Bank · view ↗
Deeds and publications: Belgian Official Gazette, latest on 11/10/2024 · view ↗

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