Kearny Financial Corp. Announces Cash Dividend of $.05

Kearny Financial Corp. KRNY (the "Company") announced today that the Company's Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $.05 per share to stockholders of record as of October 1, 2010 payable on October 22, 2010. The Company is the majority-owned subsidiary of Kearny MHC, a federally chartered mutual holding company, which owns 74.87% of the Company's outstanding shares.