Investigation of the Influence of Bank Features and Banking Industry Features on Profitability of Banks

The present research investigates the influence of bank features and banking industry features on profitability of banks. One of the main targets of banking system is absorption of resources (as inexpensive as possible) from real and legal persons and directing them towards economic activities and finally increasing profit margin. Therefore, profitability is a necessity. The research was conducted on Iranian Exports Bank-which is a private commercial bank. This research tries to answer this question: whether bank features and banking industry features influence profitability of banks or not? Many factors influence profitability of banks. The first category of factors is internal factors which includes bank features and can be controlled by management and the next category is external factors which includes features of banking industry and cannot be controlled by management.