Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1, language: English, abstract: The CAMEL rating is a well established technique to compare the performance of banks and financial institutions. We compare a sample of five public sector banks in India, ranking them via the CAMEL rating. Of the banks chosen for the study SBI ranked first in capital adequacy, asset quality and earnings quality. IDBI ranked first in management efficiency while BOB ranked first in liquidity. The bank with the best overall CAMEL rank proved to be SBI. By providing a basis of comparison for different banks the CAMEL rating can yield valuable insight to several stake holders of banks such as bank management, investors and regulators.