First Bancshares, Inc. (OTCMKTS:FBSI) Increases Dividend to $0.40 Per Share

First Bancshares, Inc. (OTCMKTS:FBSI) declared a dividend on Friday, February 21st, NASDAQ Dividends reports. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, April 1st will be given a dividend of 0.40 per share by the financial services provider on Tuesday, April 15th. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, April 1st. This is a 33.3% increase from First Bancshares’s previous dividend of $0.30.

First Bancshares Price Performance

OTCMKTS:FBSI opened at $25.50 on Friday. First Bancshares has a twelve month low of $24.55 and a twelve month high of $27.00. The company has a fifty day moving average of $24.92 and a 200-day moving average of $24.90. The firm has a market capitalization of $59.70 million, a P/E ratio of 9.41 and a beta of 0.15.

First Bancshares (OTCMKTS:FBSI) last released its quarterly earnings data on Friday, January 17th. The financial services provider reported $0.71 earnings per share (EPS) 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.