In the context of the mega-merger of the State Bank of India with its 5 associate banks and the Bharatiya Mahila Bank, on 1st April, 2017, this paper has attempted to analyse the profitability of the State Bank of India with respect to the pre-merger period and the post-merger period, based on the relevant secondary data available. For the purpose of such analysis, apart from some simple statistical measures, like Mean and Standard Deviation, Shapiro-Wilk test and Unpaired t test have been used for drawing meaningful conclusions.
Keywords: Profitability Analysis, Pre-Merger, Post-Merger, Standard Deviation, Unpaired t Test.
