HOUSTON, April 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Keefe,
Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (KBW) has named Prosperity Bancshares,
Inc.® (NYSE: PB) to its "2014 Bank Honor Roll" of
superior performers, in recognition of the bank's strong
performance over the past ten years. This year will mark the tenth
year that Prosperity Bancshares has been so honored.
"I am pleased to announce Prosperity Bancshares' inclusion into
the 2014 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods' Honor Roll," said
David Zalman, Prosperity's Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer. "To qualify for this honor, a bank
must maintain extraordinarily high quantitative metrics for the
previous 10 years. Twenty-five banking institutions posted a
10-year record worthy of admission to this year's KBW Honor Roll,"
continued Zalman.
According to KBW, the Bank Honor Roll winners significantly
outperform both their banking peers and the market and have
better-than-industry performance ratios and growth rates.
KBW Bank Honor Roll winners are publicly traded banking
institutions with more than $500
million in total assets that meet three conditions:
- No annual loss reported in net income per share before
extraordinary items over the past 10 years;
- 2014 annual reported net income per share before extraordinary
items equal to or greater than peak net income per share over the
past 10 years; and
- Consecutive increases in net income per share before
extraordinary items since 2009.
Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. ®
As of December 31, 2014,
Prosperity Bancshares Inc. ® is a $21.508 billion Houston, Texas based regional financial
holding company, formed in 1983. Operating under a community
banking philosophy and seeking to develop broad customer
relationships based on service and convenience, Prosperity offers a
variety of traditional loan and deposit products to its customers,
which consist primarily of small and medium sized businesses and
consumers. In addition to established banking products, Prosperity
offers a complete line of services including: Internet Banking
services at http://www.prosperitybankusa.com, Retail Brokerage
Services, Credit Cards, MasterMoney Debit Cards, 24 hour voice
response banking, Trust and Wealth Management, Mortgage Services
and Mobile Banking.
Prosperity currently operates 244 full-service banking
locations: 61 in the Houston area,
including The Woodlands; 30 in the
South Texas area including
Corpus Christi and Victoria; 36 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area; 22 in the East Texas area; 30 in the Central Texas area including Austin and San
Antonio; 34 in the West
Texas area including Lubbock, Midland-Odessa and Abilene; 16 in the Bryan/College Station area, 6 in the
Central Oklahoma area and 9 in the
Tulsa, Oklahoma area.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains, and the
remarks by Prosperity's management on the conference call may
contain, forward-looking statements within the meaning of the
securities laws that are based on current expectations,
assumptions, estimates and projections about Prosperity and its
subsidiaries. These forward-looking statements are not
guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and
uncertainties, many of which are outside of Prosperity's control,
which may cause actual results to differ materially from those
expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These
risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to whether
Prosperity can: successfully identify acquisition targets and
integrate the businesses of acquired companies and banks;
continue to sustain its current internal growth rate or total
growth rate; provide products and services that appeal to its
customers; continue to have access to debt and equity capital
markets; and achieve its sales objectives. Other risks
include, but are not limited to: the possibility that credit
quality could deteriorate; actions of competitors; changes in laws
and regulations (including changes in governmental interpretations
of regulations and changes in accounting standards); a
deterioration or downgrade in the credit quality and credit agency
ratings of the securities in Prosperity's securities portfolio;
customer and consumer demand, including customer and consumer
response to marketing; effectiveness of spending, investments or
programs; fluctuations in the cost and availability of supply chain
resources; economic conditions, including currency rate
fluctuations and interest rate fluctuations; and weather.
These and various other factors are discussed in Prosperity's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014 and other reports and
statements Prosperity has filed with the SEC. Copies of the SEC
filings for Prosperity Bancshares® may be downloaded
from the Internet at no charge from
http://www.prosperitybankusa.com.
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