Deposit Guaranty of Miss. Net Up Slightly

JACKSON, Miss. - Deposit Guaranty Corp.'s net income of $67 million in 1994 was a slight increase from the previous year.

The $5.1 billion-asset company attributed its fourth-quarter 12% increase in earnings over 1993 to a $2.5 million gain on the sale of securities, as well as an improvement in the net interest margin to 4.62%.

The bank reported that the margin improvement resulted from a 17% increase in loan volume from the same period in 1993 to $393 million.

Stockholders' equity at Dec. 31, 1994, was $444 million, compared with $396 million a year earlier.

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