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First Financial's common shares are listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol "FFBC." As of February 18, 2026, our common shares were held by approximately 3,767 shareholders of record, a number that does not include beneficial owners who hold shares in “street name,” or shareholders from previously acquired companies that have not exchanged their stock.
−Removed: At December 31, 2024, no stock options and 1,002,461 shares of restricted stock were outstanding.
+Added: At December 31, 2025, there were no stock options outstanding and there were 858,295 shares of restricted stock outstanding.
Additional information about stock options, restricted stock and restricted stock units is included in Note 21 - Stock Options and Awards in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in First Financial’s 2025 Annual Report to Shareholders and in Item 12 below.
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(b) Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
+Added: On November 1, First Financial issued 2,753,094 shares of our common stock (the “Stock Consideration”) in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), by and between First Financial and OFIC, dated as of June 23, 2025.
+Added: The Closing, as defined in the Purchase Agreement, occurred on November 1, 2025, and delivery of the Stock Consideration to OFIC was effected on November 3, 2025, which was the first business day following the Closing.
+Added: The offer and sale of the Stock Consideration was made to persons who are “accredited investors” as defined in Rule 501 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act.
+Added: The offer and sale of the Company Stock is being made in reliance on the exemption from registration afforded under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Rule 506 of Regulation D under the Securities Act.
(c) Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
−Removed: In December 2018 the Board approved a stock repurchase plan pursuant to which the Company was authorized to repurchase up to 5,000,000 shares of common stock through December 31, 2020 (the 2018 Stock Repurchase Plan).
−Removed: On December 22, 2020, the Board announced that it had authorized a new, two-year stock repurchase plan (the 2020 Stock Repurchase Plan) that provided for the purchase of up to 5,000,000 additional shares of common stock of the Company.
−Removed: The 2020 Stock Repurchase Plan became effective January 1, 2021, upon the expiration of the 2018 Stock Repurchase Plan.
−Removed: The Board announced on January 27, 2022, that the 2020 Stock Repurchase Plan was terminated effective December 31, 2021, and replaced with a new plan effective January 1, 2022 (the 2022 Stock Repurchase Plan).
−Removed: The 2022 Stock Repurchase Plan authorized the purchase of up to 5,000,000 shares of common stock and expired on December 31, 2023.
−Removed: In December 2023 the Board authorized a new two-year plan effective January 1, 2024, that provides for the purchase of up to 5,000,000 shares of the common stock of the Company (the “2024 Stock Repurchase Plan”).
+Added: In December 2023, the Board authorized a two-year stock repurchase plan effective January 1, 2024, that provides for the purchase of up to 5,000,000 shares of the common stock of the Company (the “2024 Stock Repurchase Plan”).
The Company did not purchase any shares under the 2024 Stock Repurchase Plan in the fourth quarter of 2025.
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