Compass Bancshares to Present at KBW Honor Roll Conference.Business Editors BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2003 Compass Bancshares, 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, will make a presentation at the KBW KBW Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschlands (Communist Union of West Germany) KBW Keefe, Bruyette and Woods, Inc. (investment firm) KBW Knowledge-Based Warfare Honor Roll Conference hosted by Keefe, Bruyette and Woods Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. is a stock broker and an investment bank that specialises in the financial sector. The company has seven offices in the United States and one office in London. , Inc. in New York on Tuesday, July 29 at 1:30 p.m. EDT. The presentation slides and the live audio webcast will be available through Compass' web site at www.compassweb.com. A replay of the presentation will also be made available for approximately seven days at the same address within 24 hours of the presentation. Compass Bancshares, Inc. is a $25.6 billion Southwestern financial holding company which operates 358 full-service banking offices including 126 in Texas, 89 in Alabama, 66 in Arizona, 42 in Florida, 26 in Colorado and nine in New Mexico. 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" 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 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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