TUPELO, Miss., July 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- At its regular
quarterly meeting today, the Board of Directors of BancorpSouth,
Inc. (NYSE: BXS) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per common share, which represents an
increase of $0.025 per common share,
or 33 percent, compared to its most recent dividend of $0.075 per common share paid on July 1, 2015. The dividend is payable
October 1, 2015 to shareholders of
record at the close of business on September
15, 2015.
BancorpSouth earlier reported net income of $39.7 million or $0.41 per share for the second quarter of
2015.
BancorpSouth, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered
in Tupelo, Mississippi, with
$13.6 billion in assets.
BancorpSouth Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of BancorpSouth, Inc.,
operates 284 commercial banking, mortgage, and insurance locations
in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, including an insurance location in
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