1 unchanged sentence
Market for Our Common Stock
−Removed: The Company’s common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “EFSC.” As of February 26, 2025, the Company had 1,523 registered shareholders of common stock.
+Added: The Company’s common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “EFSC.” As of February 25, 2026, the Company had 1,422 registered stockholders of common stock.
The number of holders of record does not represent the actual number of beneficial owners of our common stock because securities dealers and others frequently hold shares in “street name” for the benefit of individual owners who have the right to vote shares.
−Removed: The Company paid quarterly cash dividends on common shares in each of 2024, 2023 and 2022 and anticipates continuing to pay comparable dividends.
+Added: The Company paid quarterly cash dividends on common stock in each of 2025, 2024 and 2023 and anticipates continuing to pay comparable dividends.
Total dividends paid per common share were $1.22 in 2025, $1.06 in 2024 and $1.00 in 2023.
−Removed: However, we have no obligation to pay dividends and we may change our dividend policy at any time without notice to our shareholders.
+Added: However, we have no obligation to pay dividends and we may change our dividend policy at any time without notice to our stockholders.
Our ability to pay dividends is substantially dependent upon the ability of our subsidiaries to pay cash dividends to us.
Information on regulatory restrictions on our ability to pay dividends is set forth in “Part I, Item 1.
−Removed: Business - Supervision and Regulation - Financial Holding Company - Dividend Restrictions and Share Repurchases.” The amount of dividends, if any, that may be declared by the Company also depends on many other factors, including future earnings, bank regulatory capital requirements and business conditions as they affect the Company and its subsidiaries.
+Added: Business - Supervision and Regulation - Financial Holding Company - Dividend Restrictions and Stock Repurchases.” The amount of dividends, if any, that may be declared by the Company also depends on many other factors, including future earnings, bank regulatory capital requirements and business conditions as they affect the Company and its subsidiaries.
As a result, no assurance can be given that dividends will be paid in the future with respect to our common stock.
9 unchanged sentences
Stock Performance Graph
−Removed: The following graph compares the cumulative total shareholder return on the Company’s common stock from December 31, 2019 through December 31, 2024.
+Added: The following graph compares the cumulative total stockholder return on the Company’s common stock from December 31, 2020 through December 31, 2025.
The graph compares the Company’s common stock with the Nasdaq Composite Index (U.S.
12 unchanged sentences
Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.