July 19, 2010 (FinancialWire) (Go to http://www.financialwire.net/?s=ftrdnwswnd for all of today’s featured news.) — HopFed Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: HFBC) said that the underwriter for the company's recent public offering of 3,333,334 shares of common stock has exercised its over-allotment option and purchased an additional 250,000 shares of the company's common stock.

HopFed received net proceeds of around $2,137,500 from the sale of the additional 250,000 shares.

Howe Barnes Hoefer & Arnett, Inc. acted as the sole manager for the offering.

Kentucky-based HopFed Bancorp is a unitary savings and loan holding company with posted assets of $1 billion as of March 31, 2010.

Through its wholly owned bank subsidiary, Heritage Bank, the company offers a range of banking services to commercial and retail customers in western Kentucky and Tennessee, northwest of Nashville.

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