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Recent Corporate Developments On January 28, 2021, Peoples Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program authorizing Peoples to purchase up to an aggregate of $30.0 million of Peoples outstanding common shares.
Under this share repurchase program, Peoples repurchased an aggregate of 30,692 of its common shares totaling $0.8 million during 2025, an aggregate of 100,905 of its common shares totaling $3.0 million during 2024, and an aggregate of 107,219 of its common shares totaling $3.0 million during 2023.
Peoples currently operates 57 offices in Ohio, 26 offices in West Virginia, 39 offices in Kentucky, two offices in Virginia, one office in Washington D.C., one office in Maryland, an insurance premium finance lending office in Missouri, an equipment leasing office in Vermont, and an equipment leasing office in Minnesota.
At December 31, 2025, Peoples Bank had no concentration of loans to borrowers engaged in the same or similar industries that exceeded 11% of total loans (also referred to as loans, net of deferred fees and costs ).
Commercial loans represented the largest portion of Peoples Bank s total loan portfolio, comprising approximately 62.1% and 60.3% of total loans at December 31, 2025, and at December 31, 2024, respectively.
At December 31, 2025, the commercial loan portfolio consisted of 67.4% in variable interest rate loans and 32.6% in fixed interest rate loans.
Commercial Real Estate Loans Peoples Bank s portfolio of commercial real estate loans comprised 34.9% of total loans at December 31, 2025, and 33.9% at December 31, 2024.
At December 31, 2025, commercial and industrial loans comprised 22.7% of Peoples Bank s total loan portfolio, compared to 21.2% at December 31, 2024.
Construction loans comprised 4.5% of Peoples Bank s total loan portfolio at December 31, 2025 and 5.2% at December 31, 2024.
Peoples Bank s portfolio of leases comprised 5.4% of total loans at December 31, 2025, and 6.4% of total loans at December 31, 2024.
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Recent Corporate Developments On October 25, 2022, Peoples announced the signing of a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger providing for Peoples acquisition, in an all-stock merger, of Limestone Bancorp Inc.
( Limestone ), a bank holding company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and the parent company of Limestone Bank.
Under the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, Limestone merged with and into Peoples, and Limestone Bank merged with and into Peoples wholly-owned subsidiary, Peoples Bank (collectively, the Limestone Merger ).
The Limestone Merger closed as of the close of business on April 30, 2023.
As consideration, Limestone shareholders received 0.90 common shares of Peoples for each full share of Limestone that was owned at the merger date, resulting in the issuance of 6,827,668 common shares by Peoples, or aggregate consideration of $177.9 million.
Peoples recorded goodwill in the amount of $68.8 million and core deposit other intangible assets in the amount of $27.7 million related to this transaction.
On January 28, 2021, Peoples Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program authorizing Peoples to purchase up to an aggregate of $30.0 million of Peoples outstanding common shares, replacing the February 27, 2020 share repurchase program which had authorized Peoples to purchase up to an aggregate of $40.0 million of Peoples outstanding common shares.
Peoples repurchased an aggregate of 100,905 of its common shares totaling $3.0 million during 2024, an aggregate of 107,219 of its common shares totaling $3.0 million during 2023, and an aggregate of 263,183 of its common shares totaling $7.4 million during 2022, under the share repurchase program authorized on January 28, 2021.
Peoples currently operates 67 offices in Ohio, 29 offices in West Virginia, 43 offices in Kentucky, three offices in Virginia, two offices in Washington D.C., one office in Maryland, an insurance premium finance lending office in Missouri, an equipment leasing office in Vermont, and an equipment leasing office in Minnesota.
At December 31, 2024, Peoples Bank had no concentration of loans to borrowers engaged in the same or similar industries that exceeded 10% of total loans (also referred to as loans, net of deferred fees and costs ), nor did Peoples Bank have any loans outstanding to non-United States ( U.S.