Company: WSBC
Filing Date: 2025-01-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0000950170-25-007807
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Company: WESBANCO INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-22
Form: 425
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<div align='center'>SIGNATURE</div>

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 thereunto duly authorized.

| Date: | January 22, 2025 | By: | Wesbanco, Inc.                      
 (registrant)                        
 /s/ Daniel K. Weiss, Jr.            |
|:------|:-----------------|:----|:------------------------------------|
|       |                  |     | Daniel K. Weiss, Jr.                
 Senior Executive Vice President and 
 Chief Financial Officer             |

Exhibit 99.1

<div align='center'>WesBanco Announces Fourth Quarter 2024 Financial Results

Strong year-over-year loan growth of $1 billion, matched by deposit growth of $1 billion</div>

Wheeling, WVa. (January 22, 2025) – WesBanco, Inc. (“WesBanco” or “Company”) (Nasdaq: WSBC), a diversified, multi-state bank holding company, today announced net income and related earnings per share for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2024. Net income available to common shareholders for the fourth quarter of 2024 was $47.1 million, with earnings per share of $0.70, compared to $32.4 million and $0.55 per share, respectively, for the fourth quarter of 2023. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2024, net income was $141.4 million, or $2.26 per share, compared to $148.9 million, or $2.51 per share, for the 2023 period. As noted in the following table, net income available to common shareholders, excluding after-tax restructuring and merger-related expenses, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2024 was $146.4 million, or $2.34 per share, as compared to $151.9 million, or $2.56 per share (non-GAAP measures).

| (unaudited, dollars in thousands,                                                       
 except per share amounts)                                                               |     | For the Three Months Ended December 31, 
 2024                                    
 Net                                     
 Income                                  |        |   |     | Diluted   
 Earnings  
 Per Share |       |   |     | 2023   
 Net    
 Income |        |     | Diluted