First Community Bancshares, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend, Payable on or About February 22, 2013
January 22, 2013 at 04:00 pm EST
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First Community Bancshares, Inc. (Bluefield) announced that the board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend to common shareholders of $0.12 per common share. The quarterly dividend is payable to common shareholders of record on February 8, 2013, and is expected to be paid on or about February 22, 2013. The current dividend represents an increase of 9% over the prior quarter's dividend and an increase of 20% over the prior year's dividend.
First Community Bankshares, Inc. is a financial holding company, which provides banking products and services through its wholly owned subsidiary First Community Bank (the Bank). It operates in community banking segment, which consists of all operations, including commercial and consumer banking, lending activities, and wealth management. The Bank offers wealth management and investment advice through its Trust Division and wholly owned subsidiary First Community Wealth Management. Its commercial loans consist of loans to small and mid-size industrial, commercial, and service companies. Commercial real estate projects represent a variety of sectors of the commercial real estate market, including single family and apartment lessors, commercial real estate lessors, and hotel/motel operators. Consumer real estate loans segment consists of loans to individuals within its market footprint for home equity loans and lines of credit and for the purpose of financing residential properties.
FIRST COMMUNITY BANKSHARES, INC. 
