Exhibit 99.3
FIRST COMMUNITY BANK CORPORATION
OFAMERICA
Contact: Kenneth P. Cherven
President/CEO
(727) 520-0987
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS
RELEASE
Pinellas Park, Florida (December 20, 2005) – First Community Bank Corporation of America President, Kenneth P. Cherven, announced that the Company’s Board of Directors, on December 19, declared a three-for-two stock split on its common stock payable on January 20, 2006.
As a result of the dividend, the Company’s shareholders will receive three additional shares of stock for every two shares that they own on the record date of January 10, 2006. Following the split, the company will have approximately 3,383,364 shares of common stock outstanding.
First Community Bank Corporation of America, with assets of approximately $310 million, is the holding company for First Community Bank of America, with offices in St. Petersburg, Pinellas Park, Largo, Apollo Beach, Tampa and Port Charlotte, and a loan production office in Bradenton.
First Community Bank Corporation of America trades on the NASDAQ SmallCap under the symbol “FCFL.”
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This press release contains forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical earnings and those presently anticipated or projected. The company wishes to caution readers not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: risk of loans and investments, including dependence on local economic conditions competition for the company’s customers from other providers of financial services; possible adverse effects of changes in interest rates; execution and implementation of a series of previously announced strategic initiatives; balance sheet and capital ratio risks related to the share repurchase program; risks related to the company’s acquisition and market extension strategy, including risks of adversely changing results of operations and factors affecting the company’s ability to consummate further acquisitions or extend its markets; and other risks detailed in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of the company.
