-- Bank of China (SHA:601988, HKG:3988) recorded a 4.2% year-over-year increase in attributable profit in the first quarter of 2026 to 56.6 billion yuan from 54.4 billion yuan.
Earnings per share was flat at 0.18 yuan, according to a Shanghai Stock Exchange filing on Thursday.
Net interest income jumped 7.8% to 116.1 billion yuan from 107.7 billion yuan a year prior.
Operating income climbed 8.4% to 178.8 billion yuan.
By the end of March, the bank's ratio of non-performing loans shrank to 1.22% from 1.23% at the start of the year. It held a total of 287 billion yuan in non-performing loans.
China's fourth-largest bank by assets saw its total assets expand 3.2% in Q1 to 39.6 trillion yuan from 38.4 trillion yuan at the end of 2025.