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A commonly calculated measure of bank productivity is the efficiency ratio: noninterest expense/(net interest income + noninterest income). Banks routinely include the results in their quarterly and ...

In order to operate, your business must sell goods or services, buy equipment, pay its bills and receive payment from customers. Operating efficiency ratios provide numerical feedback about how ...

I've come to the opinion over the years that the efficiency ratio is the single most important metric for individual investors to analyze before buying a bank stock. The problem is that it isn't a ...