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Issuer:     EQUITY BANCSHARES INC (EQBK)
CIK:        0001227500
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-03T01:50:55+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-26-412873
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.30
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Equity Bancshares files Frontier financials: net loss $891K vs $2.93M year-ago; Lincoln Bancorp deal pending
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- Frontier Holdings posted a net loss of $891K for the quarter ended Dec 31, 2025, versus net income of $2.93M a year earlier; noninterest expense jumped to $12.4M from $6.55M.
- Salaries and employee benefits rose to $5.97M from $4.02M and other noninterest expense to $5.65M from $1.76M; net interest income grew to $10.9M from $9.20M.
- Frontier balance sheet at Dec 31, 2025: $1.43B total assets, $1.29B loans (allowance $14.5M), $1.13B deposits, $141.1M FHLB advances; short-term borrowings fell to zero from $35M.
- Members' equity slipped to $116.9M from $119.1M after $1.9M of distributions to members; provision for credit losses was $60K, down from $319K.
- Equity Bancshares completed its merger with Frontier Holdings (holding company of Frontier Bank) effective Jan 1, 2026; these statements support the S-4 for the pending Lincoln Bancorp transaction.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227500/000119312526412873/0001193125-26-412873-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227500/000119312526412873/d16704d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-412873

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