Dubai Islamic Bank P.J.S.C announced earnings results for the full year 2017. For the year, the company reported a net profit of AED 4.5 billion, which is up by 11%, but it's important to analyze that the group's net profit emanates out of a top line increase of 18%. This is the first time the bank has crossed the AED 10 billion mark in terms of total income. The total operating income, net operating income, will see that the bank has grown by about 20% at AED 5.3 billion versus AED 4.4 billion in the beginning of the year. And the impairments and losses on account of collective provisions or general provisions has been more than what they did in 2016, thereby ending 2017 with record profits of about AED 4.5 billion. ROEs have ended at 18.7%, and ROAs at around 3.4%.

For the year 2018, return on assets would be between 2.2% to 2.35% expects return to equity at 17% to 18%.