Successful retail expansion, fast growth, improvement in the overall profitability and benign market environment, all these factors have pushed BRE share price to its record levels in 2007.
In the heydays of the year 2007, BRE's market capitalization exceeded USD 1.7 bil, or its share price traded at over 20x its earnings. Since then, the market corrected heavily. At the end of 2012, BRE bank had a value exceeding USD 1 bil while bank's share traded at around 11x its annual net earnings.