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Bank of the Ozarks: CEO earned $9.3M

George Gleason, 61, chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of the Ozarks, earned $9.3 million last year, the Little Rock firm said in its proxy statement Wednesday.

Gleason had a salary of $1 million, stock and option awards of $2.4 million, incentive compensation of $1 million, exercised $4.2 million in stock options and had other income totaling about $667,000.

Gleason is the largest shareholder of the bank with 6.2 million shares, or 7.1 percent of the company's stock, worth about $225 million.

The other top executives for Bank of the Ozarks and their income last year were Dan Thomas, vice chairman, $3.5 million; Greg McKinney, chief financial officer, $1.9 million; Tyler Vance, chief operating officer, $1.9 million; and Darrel Russell, chief credit officer, $671,000.

Bank of the Ozarks' annual meeting will be held May 18.

-- David Smith

Murphy USA chief makes $5M in 2014

Andrew Clyde, president and chief executive officer of Murphy USA Inc., earned about $5.07 million in total compensation in 2014.

Clyde was paid $818,770 in salary, $1.6 million in incentive plan compensation, about $2.4 million in stock awards and about $182,600 in other compensation.

Mindy West, executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, received about $1.9 million; John Moore, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, about $1.5 million; and Jeffrey Goodwin, senior vice president of retail operations, about $1.07 million.

El Dorado-based Murphy USA will hold its annual shareholders meeting at 1 p.m. May 6 at the South Arkansas Arts Center in El Dorado.

-- Jessica Seaman

Only 2 stocks gain as index falls 6.85

The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, sank 6.85 to 395.13 on Wednesday.

All but two stocks lost ground.

USA Truck lost 6.2 percent on half its average volume.

Acxiom fell 4 percent on below-average volume.

ArcBest dropped 2.9 percent in light trading.

Murphy Oil gained 2.4 percent in low activity.

Simmons First National was the only other stock in the index to rise Wednesday, climbing 1.6 percent.

Total volume of the index was 18.4 million shares.

The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.

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