Financials
- Financial year
- 2025
- Turnover
- €272.0m
- Profit
- €18.4m
- Solvency
- 34.8%
Turnover▼ 12.7%
Net result
20182025
JOHN COCKERILL
ActiveSummary
JOHN COCKERILL has been active since 1981 and the Belgian Official Gazette contains no insolvency or warning signals. The 2025 annual accounts show equity of €296.6m and a net result of €18.4m. Equity is growing by about 31% per year across the filed financial years. Its solvency ranks better than 36% of 822 sector peers (NACE 25, financial year 2025). The computed 12-month bankruptcy probability is 0.4% (very low).
Overview
Activity
Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
NACE 25210
Largest company by total assets in the province of Liège, Fabricated metal products sector5 sites
Size
€272.0mturnover 2025
- Staff
- 565.5 FTE
- Equity
- €296.6m
- Profit
- €18.4m
Standalone figures, without subsidiaries
Structure
- Parent
- EBENIS SA · 79.33%
- Board
- 13 members
- Holdings
- 41
- EBENIS SAChair · permanent representative Bernard SERIN
- Jean-Luc MaurangeDaily manager
Auditor: SRL DELOITTE Réviseurs d'EntreprisesAccounts 42 days early
Why 82raises riskLiquidity: current ratio 0.66, cash €24.0mSector: Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment (NACE 25)5 establishment unitslowers riskFounded in 1981Show the evidence
Checked score
Score 2025
82
/ 100
Excellent
Probability in this band: under 0.55%
Financially better than 40% of its sector peers (all companies)
Financial strength · tick = 2024
Average
Solvency
60+1
equity 34.8% of total assets
Liquidity
40+7
short-term debt 31.1% · cash 2.8%
Profitability
46+37
return on assets 2.2%
Bankruptcy probability, 12 months
0.4%
Very low
0%0.5%1.5%4%10%≥ 25%
About 4 in 1,000 comparable companies go bankrupt within 12 months (an estimate).
Last 24 months
11-2024: 0.3%
12-2024: 0.3%● unchanged vs 11-2024
01-2025: 0.3%● unchanged vs 12-2024
02-2025: 0.3%● unchanged vs 01-2025lowest value
03-2025: 0.3%● unchanged vs 02-2025
04-2025: 0.3%● unchanged vs 03-2025
05-2025: 0.3%● unchanged vs 04-2025
06-2025: 0.3%● unchanged vs 05-2025
07-2025: 0.4%▲ +0.1 percentage points vs 06-2025
08-2025: 0.6%▲ +0.2 percentage points vs 07-2025
09-2025: 0.6%● unchanged vs 08-2025
10-2025: 0.6%● unchanged vs 09-2025
11-2025: 0.6%● unchanged vs 10-2025
12-2025: 0.6%● unchanged vs 11-2025
01-2026: 0.6%● unchanged vs 12-2025
02-2026: 0.6%● unchanged vs 01-2026
03-2026: 0.6%● unchanged vs 02-2026
04-2026: 0.6%● unchanged vs 03-2026
05-2026: 0.6%● unchanged vs 04-2026
06-2026: 0.6%● unchanged vs 05-2026
07-2026: 0.6%● unchanged vs 06-2026
08-2026: 1.1%▲ +0.5 percentage points vs 07-2026
09-2026: 1.4%▲ +0.3 percentage points vs 08-2026highest value
10-2026: 0.4%▼ -1.0 percentage point vs 09-2026
Credit of up to €24,300,000 on 30-day terms is acceptable
Liquidity insufficient (current ratio 0.66, compared with 0.95 in 2024, below 1; short-term debt: 31.1% and cash: 2.8% of total assets), and 65.2% of the assets are financed with debt and provisions.
How it is calculated
The band follows from the bankruptcy probability, on a scale where 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 (all companies): better than 50% on solvency, 42% on liquidity, 33% on profitability and 37% on growth.
The bankruptcy probability was computed on 21-10-2026 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.
Some facts cap the score, however low the probability. Negative or zero equity, a heavy loss, a special status in the KBO, one missing filing or accounts filed more than 90 days late hold it at Fair at most (59); two missing filings, at Weak (44). An ongoing judicial reorganisation or the company's end (bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation) holds it at Critical at most (24).
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Signals
Five signals.
lowers riskraises riskneutral
neutral · Latest accounts filed on time
The financial year that closed on 31-12-2025 was due by 31-07-2026 and was filed on 19-06-2026, 42 days ahead of the deadline.
NBB · 5 filingsDeviation from the deadline
2025
42 days early
2024
14 days early
2023
34 days early
2022
75 days early
2021
73 days early
← before the deadline
after the deadline →
tick = median of all Belgian filingsring = median in the sector
This company filed its last 5 accounts on average 48 days before the deadline; the sector median (NACE 25) for financial year 2024 is 7 days before the deadline, and 35% of those companies filed late.
Searched, nothing found (2)
neutral · Next filing not due yet
The next financial year closes on 31-12-2026 and is due by 31-07-2027. Nothing is late today. The company usually files around 19 June (4 of the last 5 filed years within 31 days of that day).
Companies Code · seven monthsWhere today falls in the filing period
21-10-2026 today31-12-2026 year end31-07-2027 deadline
- Annual accounts filedfinancial year 2025 · consolidated
- Annual accounts filedfinancial year 2025 · full…
- Resignation: François Michel (director and daily…Power of attorney
Key points
- Positive: Back in profit in 2025after -€39.4m in 2024 €18.4m View
- Positive: Largest company by total assets in the province of Liège, Fabricated metal…in the Checked rankings No. 1 View
- Controlled by EBENIS SAknown shareholders 100% 79.33% View
- Board changedlatest change 01-01-2026 · 13 in office 4 joined · 3 left View
- Positive: Always filed on timeaccounts within the deadline every year 5 years View
- EU research moneyEU contribution €2.3m View
By topic
Board & ownership
- Board
- 13 members
- Parent
- EBENIS SA · 79.33%
- Known shareholders
- 100%
- Auditor
- SRL DELOITTE Réviseurs d'Entreprises
- EBENIS SAChair
- S2M PRODUCTIONS SPRLDirector
- PONCELET MC2Director
- SOKRATES GROUP SASDirector
- Jérôme PECRESSEDirector
and 8 other directors
Network & group
- Subsidiaries
- 48
- Holdings
- 41
- Connected companies
- 45
- Mergers and asset contributions
- 7
48 subsidiaries
Timeline
- Events
- 123
- Since
- 1983
- Next accounts
- by 31-07-2027
- 13-05-2026Appointments: Dorlan FERON, EQUIDEX SRL and LM…
- 06-05-2026Resignation: Soodenoo SARL (director)
- 27-02-2026Reappointment: Deloitte Réviseurs d'entreprises SRL (statutory auditor)
Company details
- Sites
- 5
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Activity
- Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and…NACE 25210
- Founded
- 16-12-1981
- Year ends
- 31-12
- Peppol
- Reachable for e-invoices
Articles of association
- Provisions read
- 7
- Purpose
- “La recherche, l'ingénierie, la fabrication, la construction, l'achat, la vente…” (deed in French)
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