Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-05-21
Form Type: 8-K/A
Source: 0000712534-25-000127
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Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-21
Form: 8-K/A
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4(c))

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

#### EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Form 8-K/A is filed as an amendment (Amendment No. 1) to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by First Merchants Corporation under Items 8.01 and 9.01 on May 16, 2025.

#### ITEM 8.01 OTHER EVENTS
First Merchants Corporation has amended the ex-dividend date for its recently declared cash dividend of $0.36 from June 5, 2025, to June 6, 2025. The payment date for the quarterly dividend will remain as June 20, 2025, as previously announced on May 16, 2025. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K/A.

The information in this Form 8-K/A and the attached exhibit shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

#### ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.
(a) Not applicable.

(b) Not applicable.

(c) Not applicable.

(d) Exhibits.

| Exhibit 99.1 |     | Press Release dated May 21, 2025 issued by First Merchants Corporation.     |
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| Exhibit 104  |     | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |

### SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly