TUPELO, Miss., Oct. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --At its regular quarterly meeting today, the Board of Directors of BancorpSouth, Inc. (NYSE: BXS) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per common share. The dividend is payable January 2, 2014 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 13, 2013.
BancorpSouth earlier reported net income of $24.9 million or $0.26 per share for the third quarter of 2013.
BancorpSouth, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, with $12.9 billion in assets. BancorpSouth Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of BancorpSouth, Inc., operates 292 commercial banking, mortgage, insurance, trust and broker dealer locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, including an insurance location in Illinois.
SOURCE BancorpSouth, Inc.
