Hancock Holding announces quarterly dividend

GULFPORT -- Hancock Holding Company announced Monday that the company's board of directors approved a regular fourth quarter 2015 common stock cash dividend of $0.24 per share.

Approved during the October meeting of the company's board of directors, the regular quarterly common stock cash dividend is payable Dec. 15 to shareholders of record as of Dec. 4.

The company has paid a quarterly dividend uninterrupted since 1967.

Hancock Holding, parent company of Hancock Bank and Whitney Bank, is a $21.6 billion financial services company with regional business headquarters and locations throughout the Gulf South.

This story was originally published November 2, 2015 at 4:57 PM with the headline "Hancock Holding announces quarterly dividend ."