Mr Jack Hayes: priority remains to improve return on assets.

The units vest annually based on the company's total return on assets, ending in 2015.

The shares vest annually based on the company's total return on assets, ending in 2015.

Corbat set out two years ago to increase Citi's return on assets and make it more efficient.

Citigroup still expects to meet 2015 targets it set for return on assets and efficiency, Gerspach said.

The private sector's rate of return on assets was 64 percent higher, suggesting a huge wasted opportunity.

It shows they're recording an average return on assets that's higher than New Zealand's top 40 listed companies.

The MYPD methodology does not allow for equity investment by government to be included as a return on assets.

Bernstein said it expected Huntington and Zions to post higher normalized return on assets to Marshall & Ilsley and Regions.

Average return on assets shrank to 0.86 percent last year from 1.28 percent in 2006.

Banks operating in Mexico saw a return on assets of above 2 percent in the years leading up to the crisis.

Fitch Ratings commented later that the bank delivered a very strong 1.7 percent return on assets.

They usually earn more, too: AT&T's estimated 2013 return on assets is almost twice as high as what's forecast for MetroPCS.

A typical return on assets of 1 percent at these banks cannot match their burgeoning costs, said Northeast Capital & Advisory's Loomis.

That maneuver can boost a bank's income without boosting its quarter-end assets, making a measure of its profitability, return on assets, look stronger.

Citi's return on assets was 1.05 percent, higher than Corbat's target of at least 0.9 percent for the year.