---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-26-025976"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FCBM"
cik: "0001531193"
company_name: "First Carolina Financial Services, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-06-22T20:54:46+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T20:56:08.807924+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Carolina Financial Services completes IPO of 5.5M shares at $12.50, raising $68.75M

## Summary
- IPO of 5,500,000 shares at $12.50/share closed June 22, 2026; gross proceeds ~$68.75M.
- Concurrent 2-for-1 forward stock split and amendments to articles/bylaws effective June 17/22.
- Net proceeds after underwriting discounts and estimated expenses not yet disclosed.
- IPO marks transition from private to public company; no earnings guidance provided.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-26-025976
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FCBM
- cik: 0001531193
- company_name: First Carolina Financial Services, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-06-22T20:54:46+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531193/000114036126025976/0001140361-26-025976-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531193/000114036126025976/ef20076545_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  First Carolina Financial Services, Inc.: Amended articles of incorporation in connection with 2-for-1 forward stock split (effective 2026-06-17).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2026-06-17
  source text: Effective June 17, 2026, First Carolina Financial Services, Inc., a North Carolina corporation (the “ Company ”), amended its articles of incorporation (the “ Articles of Incorporation ”) in connection with the 2-for-1 forward stock split of its common stock completed concurrently with the amendment.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531193/000114036126025976/0001140361-26-025976-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  First Carolina Financial Services, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws (effective 2026-06-22).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2026-06-22
  source text: Effective June 22, 2026, the Company amended and restated its bylaws (the “ Bylaws ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531193/000114036126025976/0001140361-26-025976-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.