---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-011057"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HWC"
cik: "0000750577"
company_name: "HANCOCK WHITNEY CORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T06:09:29.873484+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hancock Whitney increases quarterly dividend 12.5% to $0.45 per share

## Summary
- Regular Q1 2025 cash dividend raised to $0.45 per common share, up from $0.40.
- Payable March 17, 2025 to shareholders of record as of March 5, 2025.
- Company has paid uninterrupted quarterly dividends since 1967.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-011057
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HWC
- cik: 0000750577
- company_name: HANCOCK WHITNEY CORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/750577/000095017025011057/0000950170-25-011057-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/750577/000095017025011057/hwc-20250130.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-011057.txt

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