High returns on assets (ROA) are usually the province of emerging markets, but this was not strictly the case in the 2016 Top 1000 World Banks ranking. While many of the world’s highest ROAs came from banks in South America, the US bucked the trend and its banks delivered some of the strongest performances worldwide.
Banco Compartamos from Mexico, which sits in 948th place in the global list, earned the highest ROA in the ranking with 15.44%. Regionally, the bank is followed by two Argentinean institutions, Banco Macro and Banco de la Nacion Argentina, both of which performed well with ROAs of 7.14% and 6.62%, respectively.
