A ratio to express the profitability of a company's assets in gnerating income.
1Mr Jack Hayes: priority remains to improve return on assets.
2The units vest annually based on the company's total return on assets, ending in 2015.
3The shares vest annually based on the company's total return on assets, ending in 2015.
4Corbat set out two years ago to increase Citi's return on assets and make it more efficient.
5Citigroup still expects to meet 2015 targets it set for return on assets and efficiency, Gerspach said.
6The private sector's rate of return on assets was 64 percent higher, suggesting a huge wasted opportunity.
7It shows they're recording an average return on assets that's higher than New Zealand's top 40 listed companies.
8The MYPD methodology does not allow for equity investment by government to be included as a return on assets.
9Bernstein said it expected Huntington and Zions to post higher normalized return on assets to Marshall & Ilsley and Regions.
10Average return on assets shrank to 0.86 percent last year from 1.28 percent in 2006.
11Banks operating in Mexico saw a return on assets of above 2 percent in the years leading up to the crisis.
12Fitch Ratings commented later that the bank delivered a very strong 1.7 percent return on assets.
13They usually earn more, too: AT&T's estimated 2013 return on assets is almost twice as high as what's forecast for MetroPCS.
14A typical return on assets of 1 percent at these banks cannot match their burgeoning costs, said Northeast Capital & Advisory's Loomis.
15That maneuver can boost a bank's income without boosting its quarter-end assets, making a measure of its profitability, return on assets, look stronger.
16Citi's return on assets was 1.05 percent, higher than Corbat's target of at least 0.9 percent for the year.
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