The transaction closed Jan. 1 with SWS stockholders receiving 0.2496 shares of Hilltop common stock and $1.94 in cash, equal to $6.92 a share after Hilltop's closing price of $19.95 on Dec. 31.

Dallas-based SWS Group (NYSE: SWS) said the stocks have been classified as “other than temporary” impairments in its quarterly earnings. The adjustment will result in shareholder earnings ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- SWS Group Inc. SWS, +1.14% shares sank 15% to $22.33 in Wednesday morning trade. Late Tuesday, the Dallas-based financial services holding company reported fiscal ...

In March, SWS Group agreed to be acquired by Dallas-based Hilltop Holdings, the parent of PlainsCapital Bank, in a stock-and-cash transaction. SWS shareholders would receive 0.2496 shares of ...

DALLAS, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SWS Group, Inc. (NYSE: SWS) announced today that Kenneth R. Hanks has resigned as the firm's chief financial officer and ...

SWS Group, Inc., a Dallas-based broker-dealer and correspondent clearing firm, said its fiscal fourth-quarter net income fell 57% on impairment to the value of two large stock holdings ...

Dallas-based broker SWS Group said Thursday it will review an unsolicited buyout offer from Birmingham-based investment bank Sterne Agee & Leach. SWS said Sterne Agee has offered to take the ...

Hilltop Holdings, the Dallas parent of PlainsCapital Bank, will buy SWS Group for $7.88 per share in a stock-and-cash transaction. SWS shareholders will receive 0.2496 shares of Hilltop common ...

The special dividend will be paid along with the Dallas-based financial services company's quarterly cash dividend of 8 cents a share. SWS Group shares rose 15 cents to $22.77 in Thursday ...

SWS Group is the parent of Dallas area brokerage firm Southwest Securities and is the largest full-service brokerage firm headquartered in the Southwestern United States based on the number of ...

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the SWS Group Quarterly Conference Call and ... which is just south of Dallas. We are scheduled to convert M.L. Stern under the Southwest securities platform ...

DALLAS, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of SWS Group, Inc. (NYSE: SWS), at its November 30, 2006 meeting, approved a three- for-two common ...