Charter Financial Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend
February 24 2009 - 4:11PM
PR Newswire (US)
WEST POINT, Ga., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Charter
Financial Corporation (OTC:CHFN) (BULLETIN BOARD: CHFN) today
announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash
dividend of 25 cents per share. The dividend is payable on March
30, 2009, to stockholders of record on March 13, 2009. This equates
to an annualized dividend rate of $1.00 per share. This dividend
will be paid on approximately 2.8 million shares and the total
dividend payout will be approximately $683,000. First Charter, MHC,
which owns approximately 86 percent of Charter Financial, is
waiving its right to receive this dividend. Charter Financial
Corporation is a savings and loan holding company and the parent of
CharterBank, a full-service community bank and a federal savings
institution. CharterBank is headquartered in West Point, Georgia,
and operates ten branches on the I-85 corridor from LaGrange,
Georgia, to Auburn, Alabama. The Company also operates two loan
production offices in Georgia. CharterBank's deposits are insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Additional
information, including financial highlights, is available on the
company's website, http://www.charterbank.net/. Persons interested
in receiving e-mail notifications of news about the company may do
so by completing the registration form on the investor relations
page of the company's website. DATASOURCE: Charter Financial
Corporation CONTACT: Robert L. Johnson, President & CEO, , or
Curtis R. Kollar, Chief Financial Officer, , both of Charter
Financial Corporation, +1-706-645-1391; or Woody Wallace of The
Investor Relations Company, +1-312-245-2700, , for Charter
Financial Corporation Web site: http://www.charterbank.net/
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