---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000712534-25-000029"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FRME"
cik: "0000712534"
company_name: "FIRST MERCHANTS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T01:32:58.125916+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Merchants declares quarterly preferred dividend of $0.4688 per depositary share

## Summary
- Dividend of $46.88 per share on Series A 7.50% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock.
- Equivalent to $0.4688 per depositary share (NASDAQ: FRMEP).
- Payable February 15, 2025 to holders of record on January 31, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000712534-25-000029
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FRME
- cik: 0000712534
- company_name: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712534/000071253425000029/0000712534-25-000029-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712534/000071253425000029/frme-20250115.htm

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