First Bancshares (OTCMKTS:FBSI) Announces Earnings Results

First Bancshares (OTCMKTS:FBSI) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday. The financial services provider reported $0.71 EPS for the quarter, Zacks reports.

First Bancshares Price Performance

Shares of FBSI opened at $25.00 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $60.45 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.23 and a beta of 0.15. First Bancshares has a 1 year low of $24.55 and a 1 year high of $25.50. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $24.99 and its 200-day simple moving average is $24.90.

First Bancshares Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 15th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, April 1st will be issued a dividend of $0.40 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, April 1st. This is a boost from First Bancshares’s previous dividend of $0.30. First Bancshares’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 14.76%.

First Bancshares Company Profile

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.