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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-001323"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMBC"
cik: "0000916907"
company_name: "SOUTHERN MISSOURI BANCORP, INC."
filed_at: "2025-02-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T07:50:13.236606+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SMBC enters new/amended change-in-control severance for CFO, CCO, and CRO

## Summary
- CFO Stefan Chkautovich gets new severance: 1x cash comp lump sum, 12-month benefits continuation.
- CCO Mark Hecker's amended agreement increases severance to 2x cash comp (from 1.5x), benefits to 24 months (from 18).
- CRO Lance Greunke also enters amended severance agreement; terms parallel Hecker's but not fully specified.
- All agreements run to Dec 31, 2025 with auto-renewal; extended 1 year post-Change in Control.
- Payments subject to Section 280G parachute reduction and FDIC regulatory prohibition.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-001323
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMBC
- cik: 0000916907
- company_name: SOUTHERN MISSOURI BANCORP, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-02-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916907/000155837025001323/0001558370-25-001323-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916907/000155837025001323/smbc-20250218x8k.htm

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