---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000721994-25-000218"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LKFN"
cik: "0000721994"
company_name: "LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:00:59.434652+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lakeland Financial Declares $0.50 Quarterly Dividend

## Summary
- Board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.50 per share on common stock.
- Dividend payable on November 5, 2025 to shareholders of record on October 25, 2025.
- Declaration made on October 14, 2025 by Lakeland Financial Corporation (LKFN).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000721994-25-000218
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LKFN
- cik: 0000721994
- company_name: LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199425000218/0000721994-25-000218-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199425000218/lkfn-20251014.htm

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