secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     PEOPLES FINANCIAL CORP /MS/ (PFBX)
CIK:        0000770460
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-01-23T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001558370-25-000368
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Peoples Financial Q4 net income down 11% YoY to $1.528M; announces new buyback plan, annual meeting date
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- Q4 2024 net income $1.528M ($0.33 EPS) vs $1.723M ($0.37 EPS) in Q4 2023, driven by higher noninterest expense and interest expense.
- Full-year 2024 net income $21.703M ($4.66 EPS) includes $15.194M one-time tax benefit from reversal of valuation allowance; pre-tax income fell to $8.380M from $11.287M.
- New stock repurchase program: up to 40,000 shares or $750,000 aggregate price, expiring Dec 31, 2025; prior $1M plan repurchased 44,220 shares.
- Annual meeting of shareholders scheduled for April 23, 2025; common shares outstanding 4,617,466 as of Dec 31, 2024.
- Bank leverage ratio remained strong at 13.95%; shareholders' equity increased to $90.0M from $69.3M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/770460/000155837025000368/0001558370-25-000368-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/770460/000155837025000368/pfbx-20250123x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-000368

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