Employee Benefit and Deferred Compensation Plans (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Retirement Benefits [Abstract]

Plan expense for non-contributory benefit pension plan and post-retirement health and life plans

defined benefit pension plan maintained by Renasant Bank (“Pension Benefits - Renasant”) and to the post-retirement health and life plan (“Other Benefits”) as of the dates presented is as follows:

	Pension Benefits
	Renasant						Other Benefits
	Three Months Ended						Three Months Ended
	March 31,						March 31,
	2019			2018			2019			2018
Service cost	$	—		$	—		$	2		$	2
Interest cost	273			266			8			9
Expected return on plan assets	(363		)	(518		)	—			—
Recognized actuarial loss (gain)	86			87			(14		)	—
Net periodic benefit (return) cost	$	(4	)	$	(165	)	$	(4	)	$	11

Summary of the changes in stock options and restricted stock

The following table summarizes information about options outstanding, exercised and forfeited as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2019:

	Shares		Weighted Average Exercise Price
Options outstanding at beginning of period	43,750		$	15.84
Granted	—		—
Exercised	(2,500	)	16.91
Forfeited	—		—
Options outstanding at end of period	41,250		$	15.77

The following table summarizes the changes in restricted stock as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2019:

	Performance-Based Restricted Stock	Weighted Average Grant-Date Fair Value		Time- Based Restricted Stock		Weighted Average Grant-Date Fair Value
Nonvested at beginning of period	41,300	$	40.89	304,955		$	41.82
Awarded	154,250	30.18		189,346		30.18
Vested	—	—		(58,979	)	36.75
Cancelled	—	—		(6,230	)	41.11
Nonvested at end of period	195,550	$	32.44	429,092		$	37.39