Geberit AG - Share price performance previous year

Share price performance 2007

In the trading year, the Geberit AG share suffered its first setback for many years. After an excellent first six months, driven above all by the very good company development as well as the positive stock market environment, the price rose from its level of CHF 187.80 at the beginning of the year to slightly above CHF 220.00 as of end of May, before slipping to a year-end value of CHF 155.50. This represents a fall of 17.2% during 2007. The main reasons for this were external factors such as the crisis in the US construction sector – although Geberit’s US business was only marginally affected by this – as well as profit warnings by companies with whom Geberit can only be compared to a very limited extent. Some investors also realized profits as a result of the gratifying development of the share price. The Swiss Performance Index (SPI) remained more or less constant (-0.1%) compared to the beginning of 2007. Over the last five years, the average annual increase in the value of the Geberit share was 31.3% (SPI: +16.4%). The Geberit Group’s market capitalization reached CHF 6,176 million as of the end of 2007.