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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-034012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PFIS"
cik: "0001056943"
company_name: "PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP."
filed_at: "2024-03-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T22:00:03.028847+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peoples Financial Services issues supplemental merger proxy with EPS forecasts for 2023-2028

## Summary
- Received three demand letters from Peoples shareholders and two from FNCB shareholders alleging disclosure deficiencies.
- Voluntarily supplementing proxy with mean analyst EPS estimates: $4.15 (2023) and $3.26 (2024) for Peoples; $0.74, $0.70, $0.81 for FNCB.
- Long-term EPS growth rate assumptions: Peoples 22.1% for 2025, 10.0% for 2026-2027, 5.0% for 2028; FNCB 3.0% for 2026-2028.
- Special meetings remain scheduled for March 22, 2024; boards continue to recommend approval.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-034012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PFIS
- cik: 0001056943
- company_name: PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.
- filed_at: 2024-03-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056943/000110465924034012/0001104659-24-034012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056943/000110465924034012/tm248669d1_8k.htm

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