Centura Up 12% In '96, Excluding Thrift Fund Tab

Centura Banks Inc., still digesting five recent acquisitions, reported Monday that net income rose 12% to $72.4 million in 1996 - excluding a one-time special assessment on deposits for the Savings Association Insurance Fund recapitalization.

Fully diluted earnings at the Rocky Mount, N.C.-based banking company rose to $2.77 per share, compared to $2.46 the prior year. For the fourth quarter, earnings were 70 cents per share, a 2 cent increase over the year- earlier period.

The earnings came in just shy of many analyst estimates, but company officials pointed to a year of "tremendous growth and progress.

"It is especially rewarding to see earnings growth like this in light of our continued investments in new sources of revenue and technology," Centura president Cecil W. Sewell Jr. said in a prepared statement.

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