First Bancshares, Inc. (OTCMKTS:FBSI) Declares Dividend Increase – $0.35 Per Share

First Bancshares, Inc. (OTCMKTS:FBSI) announced an annual dividend on Tuesday, February 20th, NASDAQ reports. Shareholders of record on Monday, April 1st will be paid a dividend of 0.35 per share by the financial services provider on Monday, April 15th. This represents a yield of 1.21%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 28th. This is an increase from First Bancshares’s previous annual dividend of $0.25.

First Bancshares Price Performance

Shares of FBSI opened at $25.01 on Wednesday. First Bancshares has a 52-week low of $18.85 and a 52-week high of $32.20. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $29.20 and its two-hundred day moving average is $25.53. The stock has a market cap of $60.77 million, a PE ratio of 9.03 and a beta of 0.13.

First Bancshares (OTCMKTS:FBSI) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, January 19th. The financial services provider reported $0.65 EPS for the quarter. The company had revenue of $5.78 million for the quarter.

About First Bancshares

First Bancshares, Inc operates as the bank holding company for Stockmens Bank that provides banking and mortgage services to individual and corporate customers in southern Missouri, eastern Colorado, and southwestern Nebraska. It accepts various deposit products. The company also offers real estate loans, including one-to-four family residential mortgage loans, multi-family residential loans, commercial real estate loans, agricultural real estate loans, and home equity loans; and non-real estate loans, such as commercial business, agricultural business, and consumer loans.