GULFPORT, Miss., Feb. 28, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Hancock Holding Company (Nasdaq:HBHC) today announced that the company's board of directors approved a regular first quarter 2007 common stock cash dividend of $0.24 per share.
Approved during the February meeting of the company's board of directors, the regular quarterly common stock cash dividend is payable March 15, 2007, to shareholders of record as of March 5, 2007.
Hancock Holding Company -- parent company of Hancock Bank (Mississippi), Hancock Bank of Louisiana, Hancock Bank of Florida, Hancock Bank of Alabama and Magna Insurance Company -- has assets of $6.0 billion. Founded in 1899, Hancock Bank stands among the strongest, safest financial institutions in the United States and is the only financial services company headquartered in the Gulf South to rate among the top 20 percent of America's top-performing banks. Hancock offers comprehensive financial solutions through more than 140 banking and financial services offices and more than 131 automated teller machines across south Mississippi, Louisiana, south Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. Additional corporate information and on-line banking and bill pay services are available at www.hancockbank.com.
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"SAFE HARBOR" STATEMENT UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995: Congress passed the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995 in an effort to encourage corporations to provide information about companies' anticipated future financial performance. This act provides a safe harbor for such disclosure, which protects the companies from unwarranted litigation if actual results are different from management expectations. This release contains forward-looking statements and reflects management's current views and estimates of future economic circumstances, industry conditions, Company performance, and financial results. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties which could cause the Company's actual results and experience to differ from the anticipated results and expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements.