Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities .
−Removed: Market Information
−Removed: Our common shares are traded on the NASDAQ Capital
−Removed: Market under the symbol “SBFG”.
−Removed: There were 6,719,676 common shares outstanding as of December 31, 2023, which were held by
−Removed: approximately 1,162 record holders.
−Removed: The Company paid quarterly dividends on its common
−Removed: shares in the aggregate amounts of $0.52 per share and $0.48 per share in 2023 and 2022, respectively.
−Removed: The Company presently anticipates
−Removed: continuing to pay quarterly dividends in the future at similar levels.
−Removed: However, there is no guarantee that dividends on our common shares
−Removed: will continue in the future.
−Removed: The ability of the Company to obtain funds for
−Removed: the payment of dividends and for other cash requirements is largely dependent on the amount of dividends that may be declared by State
−Removed: Bank and the Company’s other subsidiaries.
−Removed: Payment of dividends by State Bank may be restricted at any time at the discretion of
−Removed: the regulatory authorities, if they deem such dividends to constitute an unsafe and/or unsound banking practice.
−Removed: These provisions could
−Removed: have the effect of limiting the Company’s ability to pay dividends on its outstanding shares.
−Removed: Moreover, the Federal Reserve Board
−Removed: expects the Company to serve as a source of strength to its subsidiary banks, which may require it to retain capital for further investment
−Removed: in State Bank, rather than for dividends to shareholders of the Company.
−Removed: The Company’s ability to pay dividends on its shares is
−Removed: also conditioned upon the payment, on a current basis, of quarterly interest payments on the subordinated debentures underlying the Company’s
−Removed: trust preferred securities.
−Removed: In addition, under the terms of the Company’s fixed-to-floating rate subordinated debt, the Company’s
−Removed: ability to pay dividends on its shares is conditioned upon the Company continuing to make required principal and interest payments, and
−Removed: not incurring an event of default, with respect to the subordinated debt.
−Removed: Performance Graph
−Removed: The following performance graph compares the
−Removed: five-year total shareholder return of the Company’s common shares, based on an initial investment on December 31, 2018, and assuming
−Removed: reinvestment of dividends, against two indices – the NASDAQ Composite Index and the KBW NASDAQ Bank Index.
−Removed: This Performance
−Removed: Graph shall not be deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC, nor shall such information
−Removed: be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any future filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that
−Removed: the Company specifically incorporates this Performance Graph by reference into such filing.
+Added: common shares are traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol “SBFG”.
+Added: There were 6,493,526 common shares outstanding
+Added: as of December 31, 2024, which were held by approximately 1,115 record holders.
+Added: Company paid quarterly dividends on its common shares in the aggregate amounts of $0.56 per share and $0.52 per share in 2024 and 2023,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: The Company presently anticipates continuing to pay quarterly dividends in the future at similar levels.
+Added: However, there
+Added: is no guarantee that dividends on our common shares will continue in the future.
+Added: ability of the Company to obtain funds for the payment of dividends and for other cash requirements is largely dependent on the amount
+Added: of dividends that may be declared by State Bank and the Company’s other subsidiaries.
+Added: Payment of dividends by State Bank may be
+Added: restricted at any time at the discretion of the regulatory authorities, if they deem such dividends to constitute an unsafe and/or unsound
+Added: banking practice.
+Added: These provisions could have the effect of limiting the Company’s ability to pay dividends on its outstanding
+Added: Moreover, the Federal Reserve Board expects the Company to serve as a source of strength to its subsidiary banks, which may require
+Added: it to retain capital for further investment in State Bank, rather than for dividends to shareholders of the Company.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: ability to pay dividends on its shares is also conditioned upon the payment, on a current basis, of quarterly interest payments on the
+Added: subordinated debentures underlying the Company’s trust preferred securities.
+Added: In addition, under the terms of the Company’s
+Added: fixed-to-floating rate subordinated debt, the Company’s ability to pay dividends on its shares is conditioned upon the Company
+Added: continuing to make required principal and interest payments, and not incurring an event of default, with respect to the subordinated
+Added: following performance graph compares the five-year total shareholder return of the Company’s common shares, based on an initial
+Added: investment on December 31, 2019, and assuming reinvestment of dividends, against two indices – the NASDAQ Composite Index and the
+Added: KBW NASDAQ Bank Index.
+Added: This Performance Graph shall not be deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be “filed”
+Added: with the SEC, nor shall such information be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any future filing under the Securities Act or
+Added: the Exchange Act, except to the extent that the Company specifically incorporates this Performance Graph by reference into such filing.
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−Removed: Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
−Removed: The table below reflects the common shares repurchased
−Removed: by the Company during the three months ended December 31, 2023.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, the Company had 236,357 shares remaining of
−Removed: the 500,000 approved under the Company’s existing share repurchase program which was authorized by the Company’s Board of
−Removed: Directors on December 21, 2022 and expires December 31, 2024.
+Added: Purchases of Equity Securities
+Added: table below reflects the common shares repurchased by the Company during the three months ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: On December 18, 2024,
+Added: the Company’s Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program authorizing the repurchase of 500,000 shares through December
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, the Company had repurchased 17,460 shares, and 482,540 shares remained available for purchase under
+Added: this program.
+Added: The December 18, 2024, share repurchase program replaced the Company’s prior repurchase program announced on December
+Added: 21, 2022, under which an aggregate 500,000 common shares of the Company were repurchased through December 2024.
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