Here’s a switch: Home Bancorp says it earned $1.7 million in the first quarter, a 69% increase over what it brought in during the first three months of 2008. The Lafayette-based parent of Home Bank says it earned 21 cents per share in the first quarter, compared with a 10 cent per share loss in the fourth quarter of 2008. Home Bank, which opened its first two branches in Baton Rouge at the end of the 2008, went public in October. The bank says its loan portfolio grew by 9% from the first quarter of 2008, to $336.4 million.
Home Bank posts increase in earnings
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