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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001587987-25-000157"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NEWT"
cik: "0001587987"
company_name: "NewtekOne, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T10:51:34.133758+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NewtekOne creates Series B 8.5% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock; files Articles Supplementary

## Summary
- Company authorized 53,750 shares of 8.500% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B, with $1,000/sh liquidation preference.
- Series B ranks senior to common stock and on parity with Series A Convertible Preferred; dividends on junior/parity stocks restricted until Series B dividends declared.
- Creation supports previously disclosed underwritten public offering of 2,000,000 depositary shares (each representing 1/40 interest in Series B).
- Articles Supplementary filed with Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation on August 19, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001587987-25-000157
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NEWT
- cik: 0001587987
- company_name: NewtekOne, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1587987/000158798725000157/0001587987-25-000157-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1587987/000158798725000157/newt-20250819.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  NewtekOne, Inc.: Established 8.500% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B, by filing Articles Supplementary (effective 2025-08-19).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-08-19
  source text: On August 19, 2025, the Company filed the Articles Supplementary with the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation amending the amended and restated articles of incorporation of the Company, as amended. The Articles Supplementary create the Series B Preferred Stock out of the authorized and unissued shares of stock of the Company, establishes the terms of the Series B Preferred Stock, fixes the authorized number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock to 53,750, and provides for certain other preferences, rights, voting powers, restrictions and limitations of the Series B Preferred Stock.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1587987/000158798725000157/0001587987-25-000157-index.htm

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