Company: WSBC
Filing Date: 2025-01-06
Form Type: 425
Source: 0000950170-25-002231
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Company: WESBANCO INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-06
Form: 425
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<div align='center'>UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSIONWASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934</div>

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

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</div>

| West Virginia                            |     | 001-39442               |         55-0571723 |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction             
 of Incorporation)                        |     | -Commission File Number |      -IRS Employer 
 Identification No. |
| 1 Bank Plaza                             |     |                         |                    |
| Wheeling, West Virginia                  |     |                         |              26003 |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) |     |                         |          -Zip Code |

| Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: 304 234-9000 |

<div align='center'>Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report : Not Applicable</div>

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☒ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

<div align='center'>Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:</div>

| Title of each class                                                                                                                           |     | Trading   
 Symbol(s) |     | Name of each exchange on which registered |
| Common Stock $2.0833 Par Value                                                                                                                |     | WSBC      |     | Nasdaq Global Select Market               |
| Depositary Shares (each representing 1/40th interest in a share of 6.75% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A) |     | WSBCP     |     | Nasdaq Global Select Market               |

Indicate by check mark whether the