Southside Bancshares, Inc. to Present at 2018 Gulf South Bank Conference

TYLER, Texas, May 03, 2018 -- Southside Bancshares, Inc. (“Southside” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:SBSI) will be making a presentation at the Gulf South Bank Conference in New Orleans, LA, on Monday, May 7, 2018, at approximately 2:10 p.m. CT.  Lee R. Gibson, President and CEO and Julie N. Shamburger, SEVP and CFO will discuss the Company’s recent operational and financial results and its strategic direction.

The presentation will be available and can be accessed at https://www.southside.com/about/investor-relations (under the topic Presentations) at approximately 2:10 p.m. CT.  The presentation will be available on the company corporate website in archive following the event.  Audio of the live presentation will be available at the following URL:  http://wsw.com/webcast/gsbc5/sbsi/

About Southside Bancshares, Inc.

Southside Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company with approximately $6.37 billion in assets that owns 100% of Southside Bank.  Southside Bank currently has 60 branches in Texas and operates a network of 84 ATMs/ITMs.

To learn more about Southside Bancshares, Inc., please visit our investor relations website at www.southside.com/about/investor-relations.  Our investor relations site provides a detailed overview of our activities, financial information and historical stock price data.  To receive e-mail notification of company news, events and stock activity, please register on the E-mail Notification portion of the website.  Questions or comments may be directed to Julie Shamburger at (903) 531-7134, or [email protected].

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements of other than historical fact that are contained in this document and in other written material, press releases and oral statements issued by or on behalf of the Company may be considered to be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of and subject to the safe harbor protections of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, nor should they be relied upon as representing management’s views as of any subsequent date.  These statements may include words such as “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “anticipate,” “appear,” “believe,” “could,” “should,” “may,” “likely,” “intend,” “probability,” “risk,” “target,” “objective,” “plans,” “potential,” and similar expressions.  Forward-looking statements are statements with respect to the Company’s beliefs, plans, expectations, objectives, goals, anticipations, assumptions and estimates about the Company's future performance and are subject to significant known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements.  For example, discussions about trends in asset quality, capital, liquidity, the pace of loan and revenue growth, the Company's ability to sell nonperforming assets, expense reductions, planned operational efficiencies, earnings, successful integration of completed acquisitions and certain market risk disclosures, including the impact of interest rates, tax reform and other economic factors, are based upon information presently available to management and are dependent on choices about key model characteristics and assumptions and are subject to various limitations.  By their nature, certain of the market risk disclosures are only estimates and could be materially different from what actually occurs in the future.

Additional information concerning the Company and its business, including additional factors that could materially affect the Company’s financial results, is included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, under “Part I - Item 1. Forward Looking Information” and "Part I - Item 1A. Risk Factors" and in the Company’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  The Company disclaims any obligation to update any factors or to announce publicly the result of revisions to any of the forward-looking statements included herein to reflect future events or developments.

For further information:                               Julie Shamburger                                                     903 531-7134