Analysing the Financial Performance of Banks Listed in Borsa Istanbul: VIKOR and WASPAS Methods

In the study, ten financial ratios obtained from the publicly available financial statements of nine banks traded in Borsa Istanbul for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 were used. In order to analyse the financial performance of these banks, VIKOR and WASPAS methods, which are among the multi-criteria decision-making techniques, were used to rank financial performance. According to the results obtained, in the ranking of the indicators of financial performance, ICBCT bank ranked first according to the VIKOR method and İşbank ranked first according to the WASPAS method in 2021, while ICBT bank ranked first according to the VIKOR method and Akbank ranked first according to the WASPAS method in 2022. In 2023, according to the VIKOR method, ICBCT bank ranked first again, and according to the WASPAS method, Akbank ranked first again. It was also observed that the performance of public banks Halkbank and Vakıfbank and Albaraka Türk Participation Bank, which is a participation bank, was always low compared to other banks during the period under review. The differences in the type, scale, capital amount, management style, credit policies, deposit policies, profit expectations and number of branches, etc. of these nine banks selected among the banks traded on the stock exchange indicate that they may face decreases and increases in terms of financial performance over the years.