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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001527541-26-000151"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WHLR"
cik: "0001527541"
company_name: "Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-05-27T21:10:00+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T21:13:07.993892+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wheeler REIT exchanges preferred shares for 757,850 common shares in unregistered transactions

## Summary
- Company issued 757,850 common shares to three unaffiliated holders in exchange for 15,157 Series D and 30,314 Series B preferred shares.
- No cash proceeds were received; exchanged preferred shares were retired and cancelled.
- Each transaction exchanged fifty common shares for two Series B and one Series D preferred shares.
- The issuance relied on Section 3(a)(9) exemption from registration; no commissions paid.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001527541-26-000151
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WHLR
- cik: 0001527541
- company_name: Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-05-27T21:10:00+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527541/000152754126000151/0001527541-26-000151-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527541/000152754126000151/whlr-20260521.htm

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