Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
Chunk: 232

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 232
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 result of a reclassification of junior stock for or into other junior 
 stock (ii) the exchange or conversion of one share of junior stock for or into another share of junior stock, (iii) through the use of the proceeds of a substantially contemporaneous sale of other shares of junior stock,                     
 (iv) purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of the junior stock in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of employees, officers, directors or consultants,  
 (v) purchases of shares of junior stock pursuant to a contractually binding requirement to buy junior stock existing prior to the preceding dividend period, including under a contractually binding stock repurchase plan, or (vi) the          
 purchase of fractional interests in shares of junior stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such stock or the security being converted or exchanged; and                                                                     |

| • |     | No shares of parity stock will be repurchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired for consideration by Fifth Third                                                                                                                                            
 otherwise than pursuant to pro rata offers to purchase all, or a pro rata portion, of new Fifth Third preferred stock and such parity stock, unless such parity stock is repurchased, redeemed or acquired for consideration by Fifth Third in connection 
 with any of the following: (i) as a result of a reclassification of parity stock for or into other parity stock or junior stock; (ii) the exchange or conversion of one share of parity stock for or into another share of parity stock or                
 junior stock; or (iii) through the use of the proceeds of a substantially contemporaneous sale of other shares of parity stock or junior stock.                                                                                                           |

When dividends are not paid in full on the shares of new Fifth Third preferred stock and any parity stock, all dividends declared on shares of new Fifth Third preferred stock and any parity stock will be declared on a proportional basis so that the amount of dividends declared per share will bear to each other the same ratio that accrued dividends for the then current dividend period per share on new Fifth Third preferred stock, and accrued dividends, including any accumulations, on any parity stock, bear to each other. 152

Subject to the foregoing, and not otherwise, dividends (payable in cash, stock or otherwise), as may be
determined by the Fifth Third board of directors or a duly authorized committee of the board of directors, may be declared and paid on the common stock and any other class or series of capital stock ranking equally with or junior to new Fifth Third
preferred