Compass Bancshares First Quarter Conference Call and Webcast at 2:00 p.m. CDT on April 16.Business Editors BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2003 Compass Bancshares Compass Bancshares, Inc. is a privately held company based in Birmingham, Alabama. Its subsidiary, Compass Bank, is a Southwestern financial holding company with $47 billion in assets and 417 full-service banking offices in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas. , Inc., (Nasdaq: CBSS CBSS Council of Baltic Sea States CBSS Craft and Boat Support System CBSS Coastal Border Surveillance System (MSSC) CBSS Closed-Breach Scavenging System (compressed air system for removing smoke from tank gun tubes) ) today announced that D. Paul Jones, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer, and Garrett R. Hegel, chief financial officer, will host a conference call to discuss first quarter 2003 results at 2:00 p.m. CDT CDT abbr. Central Daylight Time CDT Central Daylight Time CDT n abbr (US) (= Central Daylight Time) → hora de verano del centro; (BRIT on Wednesday, April 16, 2003. Additional material information, including forward-looking information such as considerations regarding future results, may be discussed during the presentation. Interested parties may access the call via either the Internet or telephone. Internet access to the call and to the supporting slide presentation will be available through Compass' web site www.compassweb.com. Click on the link labeled "Compass Bancshares Quarterly Conference Call" to access the webcast and slide presentation. For telephone access, dial 1-888-543-2107, passcode Compass. Telephone participants are requested to dial in 10 minutes prior to the start of the call to allow time for all participants to log in. A replay of the conference call will be available through Compass' web site and by telephone at 1-800-642-1687 (conference ID 9472142) until midnight on April 23, 2003. Compass Bancshares, Inc. is a $23.9 billion Southwestern financial holding company which operates 352 full-service banking offices including 121 in Texas, 89 in Alabama, 65 in Arizona, 42 in Florida, 24 in Colorado, nine in New Mexico and two in Nebraska. Compass is among the top 40 U.S. bank holding companies by asset size and ranks among the top earners of its size based on return on equity. The company's earnings per share have increased for 15 consecutive years and dividends per share Dividends per share Dividend paid for the past 12 months divided by the number of common shares outstanding, as reported by a company. The number of shares often is determined by a weighted average of shares outstanding over the reporting term. have increased for 22 consecutive years. Shares of Compass' common stock are traded through the Nasdaq stock market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol CBSS. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995 In accordance with the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Compass Bancshares, Inc. notes that any statements in this press release, and elsewhere, that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results of operations to differ materially from expected results. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, see the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the most recently ended fiscal year as well as its other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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