Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-031511
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Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form: 424B3
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Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) Registration No. 333-288793

To the Shareholders of Veritex Holdings, Inc. MERGER PROPOSED—YOUR VOTE IS VERY IMPORTANT On behalf of the board of directors of Veritex Holdings, Inc. (“Veritex”), we are pleased to enclose the accompanying proxy statement/prospectus relating to the merger of Veritex with and into Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (“Huntington”). We are requesting that you take certain actions as a holder of shares of common stock of Veritex, par value $0.01 per share (“Veritex common stock”) (a “Veritex shareholder”). The boards of directors of Veritex and Huntington have each approved, by the unanimous vote of the directors present, an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 13, 2025, by and between Veritex and Huntington (as amended from time to time, the “merger agreement”), pursuant to which Veritex will merge with and into Huntington (the “merger”), with Huntington as the surviving corporation. In the merger, holders of Veritex common stock will receive 1.95 shares (the “exchange ratio” and such shares, the “merger consideration”) of Huntington common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Huntington common stock”), for each share of Veritex common stock they own. Based on the closing price of Huntington common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (the “NASDAQ”) on July 11, 2025, the last trading day before public announcement of the merger, of $17.39, the exchange ratio represented approximately $33.91 in value for each share of Veritex common stock. Based on the closing price of Huntington common stock on the NASDAQ on August 14, 2025, the last practicable trading day before the date of this proxy statement/prospectus, of $16.81, the exchange ratio represented approximately $32.78 in value for each share of Veritex common stock. The value of the Huntington common stock at the time of completion of the merger could be greater than, less than or the same as the value of Huntington common stock on the date of this proxy statement/prospectus. We urge you to obtain current market quotations of Huntington common stock (trading symbol “HBAN”) and Veritex common stock (trading symbol “VBTX