TRUST PREFERRED SECURITIES	3 Months Ended
TRUST PREFERRED SECURITIES	Mar. 31, 2012
Trust Preferred Securities
TRUST PREFERRED SECURITIES	NOTE 6. TRUST PREFERRED SECURITIES On April 23, 2007, First Sentry Bancshares Capital Trust II (the “trust”) issued $5 million of Floating Rate Trust Preferred Securities. First Sentry Bancshares Capital Trust II, a Delaware statutory business trust, is a wholly-owned consolidated subsidiary of the Company, with its sole asset being $5 million aggregate principal amount of Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debt Securities due June 15, 2037, of First Sentry Bancshares, Inc. (the trust debenture). The trust preferred securities are non-voting, pay quarterly distributions at a variable rate, and carry a liquidation value of $1,000 per share. The variable interest rate is equal to a 3-month LIBOR plus 1.58% (2.05% at March 31, 2012, unaudited, and 2.13% at December 31, 2011) and distributions were $27 for the three months ended March 31, 2012 (unaudited) and $96 for the year ended December 31, 2011. The Company has executed a guarantee with regard to the trust preferred securities. The guarantee, when taken together with the Company’s obligations under the trust debenture, the indenture pursuant to which the trust debenture was issued and the applicable trust document, provides a full and unconditional guarantee of the trust’s obligations under the trust preferred securities. On or after June 15, 2012, the trust preferred securities are redeemable in part or whole, at the option of the Company, for a redemption price of $1,000 per trust preferred security. The trust preferred securities are subject to mandatory redemption on June 15, 2037, at a redemption price of $1,000 per trust preferred security. First Sentry Bancshares, Inc. may cause the trust to delay payment of distributions on the trust preferred securities for up to twenty consecutive quarterly periods. During such deferral periods, distributions to which holders of the trust preferred securities are entitled will compound quarterly at the applicable rate for each quarterly period. In the merger with Guaranty Financial Services, Inc., First Sentry Bancshares, Inc. acquired Guaranty Financial Statutory Trust I (the “Trust”), and the Company owns 100% of the common equity of the Trust. The Trust was formed in 2003 for the purpose of issuing $4 million of corporation-obligated, mandatorily-redeemable securities to third-party investors and investing the proceeds from the sale of the capital securities in junior subordinated debentures. Distributions on the capital securities issued by the Trust are payable quarterly bearing a variable interest rate equal to 3-month LIBOR plus 3.10% (3.57% at March 31, 2012 (unaudited) and 3.67% at December 31, 2011), which is equal to the interest rate being earned by the Trust on the debentures held by the Trust and are recorded as interest expense by the Company. Distributions for the three months ended March 31, 2012, totaled $39 (unaudited) and for the year ended December 31, 2011 totaled $136. The capital securities have a 30-year term with a final maturity of June 26, 2033, but are redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, on or after June 26, 2008, for a par value of $1,000 per trust preferred security. First Sentry Bancshares, Inc. may cause the trust to delay payment of distributions on the trust preferred securities for up to twenty consecutive quarterly periods. During such deferral periods, distributions to which holders of the trust preferred securities are entitled will compound quarterly at the applicable rate for each quarterly period.

First Sentry Bancshares, Inc. 10-Q