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Southside Bancshares, Inc. Announces Financial Results for the Third Quarter Ended September 30, 2025
TYLER, Texas, Oct. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Southside Bancshares, Inc. (“Southside” or the “Company”) (NYSE: SBSI) today reported its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2025. “During the third quarter, we restructured a portion of our available for sale (“AFS”) securities portfolio to enhance future earnings by selling approximately $325 million of primarily lower yielding long duration municipal securities and, to a lesser extent, mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”), with
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