The financial services & investments ranking is comprised of 27 companies with Kuwait securing the largest presence with 10 companies making up 37% of the total. KSA followed in second place with 5 companies and Oman followed close behind with 4 companies. Rounding out the list was Egypt with 3 companies, Bahrain and UAE with 2 and Qatar with 1. Taking the top spot on the ranking was Oman’s Muscat Finance. It was followed by two Egyptian companies, Egypt Kuwait Holding company in second and the Housing & Development Bank in third. The Kuwait-based Securities House landed 20th on the ranking with its standout achievement as the highest return on equity for 2011 with 94.2%. Dlala Holding, a Qatar-based investment company, landed in seventh place along with securing the highest average earnings per share growth with 372.9%. Turning heads however was Egypt’s Pioneers Holding, which secured both the highest average of asset growth at 151.7% and the highest average market cap growth with a whopping 1340.1%.