Company: WSBC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-039418
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Company: WESBANCO INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
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<div align='center'>UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

SCHEDULE 14AINFORMATION

Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities

Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. )</div>

Filed by the Registrant ☒ Filed by a Party other than the Registrant ☐

Check the appropriate box:

| ☐ |     | Preliminary Proxy Statement                                                     |
| ☐ |     | Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2)) |
| ☒ |     | Definitive Proxy Statement                                                      |
| ☐ |     | Definitive Additional Materials                                                 |
| ☐ |     | Soliciting Material Pursuant to § 240.14a-12                                    |

<div align='center'>WESBANCO, INC.

(Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant)</div>

Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box):

| ☒ |     | No fee required.                                                                                     |
| ☐ |     | Fee paid previously with preliminary materials.                                                      |
| ☐ |     | Fee computed on table in exhibit required by Item 25(b) per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11. |

<div align='center'>March 14, 2025</div>

Dear Shareholder:

You will find enclosed the 2024 Annual Report, Notice of Meeting, Proxy Statement and Proxy Card for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Wesbanco, Inc., which will be held on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in the Shenandoah Room at the Wilson Lodge, Oglebay Resort and Conference Center, Wheeling, West Virginia, beginning at 12:00 noon.

Please review the enclosed material and complete, sign, date and return the Proxy Card regardless of whether you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, so that the matters coming before the meeting can be acted upon. Alternatively, if you hold shares of Wesbanco common stock directly in your name, you may vote over the Internet or by telephone by following the instructions set forth on the Proxy Card.

We look forward to the shareholders’ meeting and welcome the opportunity to discuss the business of your company with you.

| Very truly yours,                     |
| Jeffrey H. Jackson                    |
| President and