ELA, Volume 5, pp. 24-38, February 1999, abstract. Comparison theorems for weak nonnegative splittings of K-monotone matrices Joan-Josep Climent and Carmen Perea The comparison of the asymptotic rates of convergence of two iteration matrices induced by two splittings of the same matrix has arisen in the works of many authors. In this paper new comparison theorems for weak nonnegative splittings of K-monotone matrices are derived which extend some results on regular splittings by Csordas and Varga (1984) for weak nonnegative splittings of the same or different types.