Factor Affecting Profitability of Commercial Banks in Ethiopia

dc.contributor.advisorTenkir Seifu (PhD)
dc.contributor.authorBelete Kassaw
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-03T05:13:28Z
dc.date.available2026-03-03T05:13:28Z
dc.date.issued2025-09
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this research was to determine the elements influencing Ethiopian commercials banks' profitability. Used a purposive judgmental sampling method, banks that produced at least 15-year financial reports were included in the sample. Hence, 14 banks were chosen from a total of 31commercial banks to achieve this goal. The data was collected over a 15-year period (2010–2024), totaling 210 data points. The study examined eight explanatory variables: Banks Size (BSZ), Capitals Adequacy Ratios (CAR), Management Efficiency Ratios (MER), Diversification of Revenue Streams (DRS), Non-Performing Loans (NPL), Market Share (MKS), and Inflation Rate (INF). The dependent variable was profitability, as determined by Return on Assets (ROA). Both explanatory and descriptive research designs were used in this study; the former sought to explain the association between the independent and dependent variables that were selected, while the latter gave a thorough description of the phenomenon being examined without necessarily pointingto its causes. Regression study revealed that NPL and INF had a substantial negative association with ROA, but BSZ, CAR, MER, MKS, and GDP showed a considerably positive link. Nevertheless,there is no noticeable connection between DRS and ROA. According to the results, Ethiopian commercial banks can increase their profitability by growing in size, improving their capital adequacy ratio (by adding more capital and improving their assets quality), increasing management effectiveness, increasing their market share (particularly in loans), controlling theirnon-performing loan ratio (NPL) for better asset quality, and adjusting their operations and strategies to the GDP and adjusting lending rate in accordance with inflation rate of the country.
dc.identifier.urihttps://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/7781
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherAddis Ababa University
dc.subjectReturn on assets
dc.subjectCapitals adequacy
dc.subjectBank Size
dc.subjectmanagement efficiency Non- Performing Loan
dc.subjectMarket Share
dc.subjectGross domestic product and inflation
dc.titleFactor Affecting Profitability of Commercial Banks in Ethiopia
dc.typeThesis

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