PBIB Porter Bancorp, Inc. (delisted)

Porter Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBIB), parent company of PBI Bank, announced today that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.20 per share. The dividend will be payable on April 3, 2007, to shareholders of record as of March 15, 2007. �Our cash dividend is an important part of building long-term shareholder value,� stated Maria L.�Bouvette, President and CEO of Porter Bancorp, Inc. "The current yield on our dividend is about 3.5% based on the annualized dividend rate of $0.80 per share and our recent stock price.� About Porter Bancorp, Inc. Porter Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. It is the seventh largest independent banking organization based on total assets domiciled in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Through Porter�s subsidiary PBI Bank, it operates banking offices in Louisville and 12 other Kentucky communities located along central Kentucky�s Interstate 65 corridor, which runs through Louisville and central Kentucky, and connects Chicago and Indianapolis to Nashville and Atlanta. Porter Bancorp�s common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol �PBIB.�