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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000721994-26-000089"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LKFN"
cik: "0000721994"
company_name: "LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2026-11-10T18:43:54+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-11-10T18:45:03.862201+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lakeland Financial raises buyback authorization to $90M from $60M, extending through April 30, 2027

## Summary
- Board approved the increase on November 10, 2026, lifting the aggregate repurchase authorization for Lakeland common stock to $90M from $60M.
- About $38M of aggregate purchase authority remained available under the amended program as of November 10, 2026.
- Repurchases may be made in the open market, through block trades, in privately negotiated transactions or otherwise, until the program expires April 30, 2027.
- The program is discretionary: it does not obligate Lakeland to buy back any dollar amount or number of shares and may be extended, modified, suspended or discontinued.
- Lakeland Financial (LKFN, Nasdaq) is the Warsaw, Indiana holding company; EVP and CFO Lisa M. O'Neill signed the report.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000721994-26-000089
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LKFN
- cik: 0000721994
- company_name: LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2026-11-10T18:43:54+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199426000089/0000721994-26-000089-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199426000089/lkfn-20261110.htm

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