Market cap

* For banks, enterprise value is substituted with market cap. Source: Bloomberg Finance L.P.

Performance of the brand

Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) has stormed into the BrandFinance® Banking 500’s top 20 on a wave of outstanding growth despite the financial crises which have swamped global banking markets. It is a testament to ABC’s impressive performance that many analysts considered the 40% net profit growth in ABC’s third quarter disappointing but this is unsurprising as net profit had grown by 45% just a quarter earlier.

Many would argue that ABC does not enjoy a brand value befitting a company of its size yet this is unsurprising as, like all of the major Chinese banks, its brand does not yet have the same weight or equity internationally that it does within China. However, year-on-year Chinese banking brands are becoming more and more prevalent in the Banking 500 and having had the year that it did Agricultural Bank of China is more than deserving of its current fortunes.

League tables

Agricultural Bank of China appears in the following brand league tables:

Rank 18 in the Banking 500 2012.
Rank 84 in the Global 500 2012.
Rank 23 in the Banking 500 2011.
Rank 99 in the Global 500 2011.
Rank 5 in the China 100 2011.
Rank 99 in the Global 500 2011.
Rank 5 in the China 100 2010.
Rank 28 in the Banking 500 2010.
Rank 138 in the Global 500 2010.