Southern Missouri Bancorp Reports Preliminary Results for Fourth Quarter of Fiscal 2024; Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.23 Per Common Share; Conference Call Scheduled for Tuesday, July 30, at 9:30am Central Time

Poplar Bluff, Missouri, July 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc. (“Company”) (NASDAQ: SMBC), the parent corporation of Southern Bank (“Bank”), today announced preliminary net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024 of $13.5 million, a decrease of $2.0 million or 13.0%, as compared to the same period of the prior fiscal year. The decrease was primarily due to lower net interest income and noninterest income. Preliminary net income was $1.19 per fully diluted common share for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, a decrease of $0.18 as compared to the $1.37 per fully diluted common share reported for the same period of the prior fiscal year. For the full fiscal year 2024, preliminary net income of $50.2 million was an increase of $10.9 million as compared to fiscal 2023, while diluted earnings per share for fiscal 2024 were $4.42, an increase of $0.57 as compared to the $3.85 per fully diluted common share for fiscal 2023. The fiscal 2023 after-tax impact of the merger-related provision for credit losses (“PCL”) required to achieve the “Day 1” allowance for credit losses (“ACL”) on acquired loans and off-balance sheet credit exposures, and merger-related noninterest expenses, were estimated to have reduced diluted EPS by $0.95.               

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