Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-043815
Chunk: 206

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 206
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 the U.S. federal estate or gift tax rules, or under the laws of any state, local, non-U.S. or other taxing jurisdiction.

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#### TABLE OF CONTENTS

### DESCRIPTION OF HUNTINGTON CAPITAL STOCK
As a result of the merger, Cadence common shareholders will receive shares of Huntington common stock in the merger and will become Huntington shareholders. The following description summarizes the terms of Huntington’s capital stock but does not purport to be complete, and it is qualified in its entirety by reference to the applicable provisions of federal law governing bank holding companies, Maryland law and the Huntington charter and bylaws (the “Huntington bylaws”). The Huntington charter and the Huntington bylaws are filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this joint proxy statement/prospectus forms a part.

Huntington’s authorized capital stock consists of 2,250,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, and 6,617,808 shares of serial preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share. As of the date of this joint proxy statement/prospectus, there were 1,574,803,152 shares of Huntington common stock issued and outstanding and 885,000 shares of Huntington preferred stock issued and outstanding. All outstanding shares of Huntington capital stock are fully paid and non-assessable.

#### Huntington Common Stock

#### Voting Rights
Holders of Huntington common stock are entitled at all times to one (1) vote for each share, subject, however, to the voting rights, if any, of the holders of Huntington preferred stock. Huntington shareholders do not have cumulative voting rights in the election of directors.

A nominee for election to the Huntington board of directors at a meeting of shareholders will be elected only if the number of votes cast “for” such nominee’s election exceeds the number of votes cast “against” or affirmatively “withheld” as to such nominee’s election; provided, however, that if, on either the date of Huntington’s proxy statement for the meeting or on the date of the meeting, the number of nominees exceeds the number of directors to be elected, the directors will be elected by a plurality of all the votes cast at the meeting. Each share may be voted for as many individuals as there are directors to be elected and for whose election the share is entitled to be voted. A majority of the votes cast at a meeting of shareholders duly called and at which a quorum is present will be sufficient to approve any other matter which