Merchants Bancorp filed SEC Form 8-K: Other Events, Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

 

United States

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549  

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 20, 2024

 

 

Merchants Bancorp

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

Indiana		001-38258		20-5747400
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

410 Monon Boulevard
Carmel, Indiana 46032
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

(317) 569-7420

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, without par value	MBIN	NASDAQ
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of Series B Preferred Stock, without par value	MBINO	NASDAQ
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of Series C Preferred Stock, without par value	MBINN	NASDAQ
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of Series D Preferred Stock, without par value	MBINM	NASDAQ

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.      ¨

 

 

 

Item 8.01 Other Events.

 

On November 20, 2024, the Company issued a press release announcing that the Company’s Board of Directors declared the following quarterly cash dividends:

 

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$0.09 per share on the Company’s outstanding shares of its common stock;

 

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$23.56 per share (equivalent to $0.59 per depositary share) on the Company’s outstanding shares of its Series B preferred stock, which was reset from 6% to 9.42% as of October 1, 2024;

 

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$15.00 per share (equivalent to $0.375 per depositary share) on the Company’s outstanding shares of its 6% Series C preferred stock; and

 

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$20.625 per share (equivalent to $0.5156 per depositary share) on the Company’s outstanding shares of its 8.25% Series D preferred stock.

 

Each of the dividends are payable on January 2, 2025 to shareholders of record on December 13, 2024.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.		Description
99.1		Press Release dated November 20, 2024 issued by Merchants Bancorp.
104		Cover Page Interactive Data File. The cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the inline XBRL document.

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

	MERCHANTS BANCORP
Date: November 20, 2024	By:	/s/ Terry Oznick
		Name:	Terry Oznick
		Title:	General Counsel and Secretary