Measurement of Efficiency Through Dupont Analysis : A Study of Top 12 Banks in India

Indian economic growth is largely supported by the banking sector. Profitability of a bank depends on the amount of capital available with the bank for business activities. Public sector banks are largely funded by the government and hence the equity component in the share capital is quite less than that of private sector banks. The question is how efficiently the capital is used? Are the profitability ratios true reflections of the performance of a bank? In the present paper, top 12 banks that form the BSE Bankex are selected to study the performance of the banking sector in India in the last three years and compares with the peer performance. The performance of the banks was studied using DuPont model as DuPont analysis provides much deeper understanding on the efficiency of the bank. The findings reveal that performance of the bank cannot be judged by the profit or some ratios alone. It provides information on bank's resources and its impact on business. The banks that made more profits were not really efficient