10-06-2025, 06:36 PM
Bank OZK Announces Increase to Quarterly Common Stock Dividend and Announces Preferred Stock Dividend
10/1/2025
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bank OZK (the “Bank”) (Nasdaq: OZK) announced its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on the Bank’s common stock of $0.45 per share, up $0.01, or 2.27% from the prior quarter. The common stock dividend is payable on October 21, 2025 to shareholders of record as of October 14, 2025. Bank OZK has increased its quarterly cash dividend on its common stock in each of the last sixty-one quarters.
The Board of Directors also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.28906 per share on the Bank’s 4.625% Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (“Series A Preferred Stock”) (Nasdaq: OZKAP) for the period covering August 15, 2025 through, but excluding November 15, 2025. The Series A Preferred Stock dividend is payable on November 17, 2025, to the holders of record of the Series A Preferred Stock at the close of business on November 3, 2025.
Bank OZK’s consistent track record of increasing its common stock dividend has led to it being included in the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats index (Ticker: SPHYDA) since January 2018. The index consists of members of the S&P Composite 1500 that have followed a managed-dividends policy of consistently increasing common stock dividends every year for at least 20 years, and that meet minimum float-adjusted market capitalization and liquidity requirements.
10/1/2025
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bank OZK (the “Bank”) (Nasdaq: OZK) announced its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on the Bank’s common stock of $0.45 per share, up $0.01, or 2.27% from the prior quarter. The common stock dividend is payable on October 21, 2025 to shareholders of record as of October 14, 2025. Bank OZK has increased its quarterly cash dividend on its common stock in each of the last sixty-one quarters.
The Board of Directors also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.28906 per share on the Bank’s 4.625% Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (“Series A Preferred Stock”) (Nasdaq: OZKAP) for the period covering August 15, 2025 through, but excluding November 15, 2025. The Series A Preferred Stock dividend is payable on November 17, 2025, to the holders of record of the Series A Preferred Stock at the close of business on November 3, 2025.
Bank OZK’s consistent track record of increasing its common stock dividend has led to it being included in the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats index (Ticker: SPHYDA) since January 2018. The index consists of members of the S&P Composite 1500 that have followed a managed-dividends policy of consistently increasing common stock dividends every year for at least 20 years, and that meet minimum float-adjusted market capitalization and liquidity requirements.
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“While the dividend itself is merely a rearrangement of equity, over time it's more like owning an apple tree. The tree grows the apples back again and again and again, and the theoretical value of the tree doesn't change just because of when the apples are about to fall.” - earthtodan
“While the dividend itself is merely a rearrangement of equity, over time it's more like owning an apple tree. The tree grows the apples back again and again and again, and the theoretical value of the tree doesn't change just because of when the apples are about to fall.” - earthtodan