BancorpSouth, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend

PRNewswire-FirstCall

TUPELO, Miss.

At their regular quarterly meeting on, April 28, 2010, the Board of Directors of BancorpSouth, Inc. declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.22 per common share. The dividend is payable July 1, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 15, 2010.

BancorpSouth previously reported net income of $8.4 million or $0.10 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2010.

BancorpSouth, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, with approximately $13.2 billion in assets. BancorpSouth Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BancorpSouth, Inc., operates approximately 314 commercial banking, mortgage, insurance, trust and broker/dealer locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas. BancorpSouth Bank also operates an insurance location in Illinois.

First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact: chuck.mcintosh@bxs.com

SOURCE: BancorpSouth, Inc.

CONTACT: Bill Prater, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer,
+1-662-680-2536, or Gary Bonds, Senior Vice President and Principal Accounting
Officer, +1-662-680-2332

Web Site: http://www.bancorpsouth.com/