Kevin Hester

“Another year is in the books here at Home Bank Shares and from a lending perspective it was one of the best ever. When you combine the fourth quarter loan growth of $400 million with the loan growth that we've posted through the first three quarters of the year, total loan growth for the year was $922 million or 6.24%.”

“We continue to achieve recoveries from the charges taken in the fourth quarter cleanup. This quarter, we recovered a total of $2 million, dollars and we remain on track to achieve the expected 30 million in total recoveries over time.”