---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-206133"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WSBC"
cik: "0000203596"
company_name: "WESBANCO INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:24:35.866265+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wesbanco raises $230M via 7.375% Series B preferred stock offering

## Summary
- Completed public offering of 9.2M depositary shares representing 7.375% Series B Preferred, raising ~$230M.
- Each depositary share equals 1/40th interest in a Series B share with $1,000 liquidation preference; $25 per depositary share.
- Underwriting syndicate led by Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, RBC Capital Markets, and Raymond James.
- Series B ranks senior to common stock and parity with existing Series A preferred; dividends non-cumulative.
- Articles of Amendment establishing Series B filed Sept 15, 2025; offering closed Sept 17.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-206133
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WSBC
- cik: 0000203596
- company_name: WESBANCO INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 8.01, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/203596/000119312525206133/0001193125-25-206133-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/203596/000119312525206133/d862034d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Equity Issuances
  WESBANCO INC issued 9,200,000 depositary shares, each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of the Company’s 7.375% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, S of preferred stock to the public for aggregate gross proceeds of $230,000,000 ($25 per depositary share).
  - Security: preferred stock
  - Shares: 9,200,000 depositary shares, each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of the Company’s 7.375% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, S
  - Purchaser: the public
  - Consideration: aggregate gross proceeds of $230,000,000 ($25 per depositary share)
  source text: on September 17, 2025, Wesbanco, Inc. (the “Company”) completed its previously disclosed public offering (the “Offering”) of 9,200,000 depositary shares (the “Depositary Shares”), each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of the Company’s 7.375% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B, no par value per share (the “Series B Preferred Stock”), with a liquidation preference of $1,000.00 per share (equivalent to $25.00 per Depositary Share).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/203596/000119312525206133/0001193125-25-206133-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  WESBANCO INC: Creation of Series B Preferred Stock via Articles of Amendment (effective 2025-09-15).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-15
  source text: On September 15, 2025, the Company filed Articles of Amendment (the “Articles of Amendment”) to its Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of West Virginia establishing the preferences, limitations and relative rights of the Series B Preferred Stock.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/203596/000119312525206133/0001193125-25-206133-index.htm

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