Top 10 Mergers Completed in the 3d Quarter

+++ (Dollar amounts in millions except where noted) part 1 of 4

Buyer 1 Fleet Financial Group Inc., Boston 2 Firstar Corp., Milwaukee 3 AmSouth Bancorp, Birmingham 4 Charter One Financial Inc., Cleveland 5 Sky Finl. Group Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio 6 Union Planters Corp., Nashville 7 U.S. Bancorp, Minneapolis 8 Summit Bancorp, Princeton, N.J. 9 Sky Financial Group Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio 10 BB&T Corp., Winston-Salem, N.C.

Averages for the top 10 bank mergers completed in the 3rd Quarter

Averages for all bank mergers completed in the 3rd Quarter part 2 of 4

Announced Completed

Seller Date Date 1 BankBoston Corp. Mar. 14 Sept. 30 2 Mercantile Bancorp Inc., St. Louis 30-Apr Sept. 20 3 First American Corp., Nashville 1-Jun Sept. 30 4 St. Paul Bancorp, Chicago 17-May Sept. 30 5 First Western Bancorp Inc., New Castle, P Dec. 14 Aug. 6 6 Republic Banking Corp. of Florida, Coral Feb. 22 16-Jul 7 Bank of Commerce, San Diego, Calif. Feb. 18 16-Jul 8 Prime Bancorp Inc., Fort Washington, Pa. Feb. 18 30-Jul 9 Mahoning National Bancorp, Youngstown, Oh 7-Jun Sept. 30 10 Mason-Dixon Bancshares Inc., Westminster, Jan. 28 14-Jul part 3 of 4

Announced Complete

Accounting Announced Price per Completed Price per

Type Price Share Price Share 1 Pooling $16,018.20 $53.00 $13,037.00 $43.38 2 Pooling 10,687.30 65.99 8,301.40 51.49 3 Pooling 6,328.20 53.09 5,190.40 43.96 4 Pooling 1,207.40 28.62 945.2 22.64 5 Pooling 425.4 37.24 443.9 38.75 6 Purchase 411.6 19.25 410.9 19.25 7 Purchase 287 19.13 307.1 20.4 8 Purchase 302.6 26.58 284.4 24.98 9 Pooling 306.6 48.66 245.8 39.01 10 Pooling 247.2 48.34 232.3 45.58 Total $36,221.40 $29,398.40 Total $39,063.40 $32,067.70 part 4 of 4

Complete Complete

Price toPrice to last 12

BV (x) mo. EPS (x) 1 2.54 16.43 2 2.67 20.81 3 2.89 20.08 4 1.81 28.22 5 2.88 24.58 6 2.37 25.72 7 4.66 21.09 8 3.03 21.96 9 2.53 16.5 10 2.82 21.36

2.82 21.67

2.19 21.27 === Source: Sheshunoff Information Services, a Thomson Financial co.

For reprint and licensing requests for this article, click here.
MORE FROM AMERICAN BANKER