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First Guaranty: A Solid Regional Bank Trading At A Huge Undervaluation

First Guaranty Bancshares is a U.S. regional bank based in Louisiana that has been in operation since 1934. The bank's profitability has suffered in recent years, but its fundamental banking ...
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First Guaranty Bancshares to acquire Marksville bank Union Bancshares for $43M

Hammond-based First Guaranty Bancshares, the parent company of First Guaranty Bank, plans to acquire Union Bancshares in a $43 million deal by the fourth quarter. First Guaranty would acquire all of ...
NOLA.com

First Guaranty Bank board buys $10 million in stock as show of support

The First Guaranty Bank board of directors has purchased $10 million in stock, a move officials said shows support for the Hammond-based bank. The board of directors for First Guaranty and its holding ...
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First Guaranty Bancshares: Too Much Risk For The 9% Preferred Shares

First Guaranty Bancshares' preferred shares are trading at a discount due to regional banking woes. The bank's net income has dropped by 70% due to increased interest expenses and non-interest ...
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Long lines as many look to close accounts at Guaranty Bank, now First Citizens Bank

BROOKFIELD -- It was business as unusual Monday, May 8th for a number of Guaranty Bank customers; they have a new bank after the feds shut down Guaranty on Friday, May 5th. While First Citizens Bank ...
NOLA.com

Longtime First Guaranty Bank CEO Alton Lewis announces retirement, replacement named

Alton Lewis is retiring as president and CEO of First Guaranty Bank after 15 years as head of the Hammond-based bank. Lewis will continue to serve as vice chairman of First Guaranty Bancshares Inc., ...
American Banker

Market volatility undoes First Guaranty-Lone Star deal

First Guaranty Bancshares in Hammond, Louisiana, will no longer acquire Lone Star Bank in Houston. The two companies said in a Monday press release that they had mutually agreed to terminate the deal, ...
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New Faces on Board at First Guaranty Bank

HAMMOND, La., Jan. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Guaranty Bank welcomes a very experienced team to lead their new Mideast market located in Kentucky and West Virginia. The move into the ...
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First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. Announces Pricing of Offering of Series A Preferred Stock Depositary Shares

HAMMOND, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. (“FGBI” or the “Corporation”) (NASDAQ: FGBI), the parent company of First Guaranty Bank, announced today the pricing of its underwritten ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Feds close Guaranty Bank; to reopen as First Citizens

Guaranty Bank, unable to ever recover from devastating loan losses stemming from the housing and foreclosure crisis, failed and was shut down by regulators Friday. The 94-year-old Glendale-based bank ...
Business Wire

First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. Announces Pricing of Offering of Series A Preferred Stock Depositary Shares

HAMMOND, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. (“FGBI” or the “Corporation”) (NASDAQ: FGBI), the parent company of First Guaranty Bank, announced today the pricing of its underwritten ...