# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000854560
**File Stem:** 0001104659-23-032712
**Filing Date:** 2023-3
**Character Count:** 10766
**Document Hash:** 1fd204ae3ac1822a21a7f580907c1254
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001104659-23-032712.hdr.sgml**: 20230315

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-23-032712

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 14

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20230315

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Other Events

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230315

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230315

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP, INC.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000854560
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 431524856
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MD
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 000-18082
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23734615

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1451 E BATTLEFIELD
- **CITY:** SPRINGFIELD
- **STATE:** MO
- **ZIP:** 65804
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 417-887-4400

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** P O BOX 9009
- **CITY:** SPRINGFIELD
- **STATE:** MO
- **ZIP:** 65808-9009

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19920703

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**UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT**

**Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934**

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 15, 2023

**GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP, INC.**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Maryland** | **0-18082** | **43-1524856** |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |

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| **1451 East Battlefield** **, Springfield, Missouri** | **65804** |
| (Address of principal executive <br> offices) | (Zip Code) |

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Registrant's telephone number, including area code: **(417) 887-4400**

**Not Applicable**

(Former name or former address, if changed

since last report.)

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) <br>

◻ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) <br>

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

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

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered |
| Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share | GSBC | The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC |

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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. ◻

**Item 8.01 Other Events.**

On March 15, 2023, Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company"), the holding company for Great Southern Bank, issued a press release announcing a quarterly dividend of $0.40 per common share for the first quarter of the calendar year ending December 31, 2023, payable on April 11, 2023, to shareholders of record on March 27, 2023.

A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

**Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.**

(d) Exhibits

[99.1](tm239683d1_ex99-1.htm) [Press release dated March 15, 2023](tm239683d1_ex99-1.htm)

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**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 authorized.

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|  |  | **GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP, INC.** |
| Date: March 15, 2023 | By: | /s/ Joseph W. Turner |
|  |  | Joseph W. Turner, President and Chief Executive Officer |

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## Exhibit 99.1

**Exhibit 99.1**

![](tm239648d1_ex99-1img01.jpg)

March 15, 2023

Reporters May Contact:

Kelly Polonus, Great Southern Bank, (417) 895-5242

<u>kpolonus@greatsouthernbank.com</u>

**Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. announces quarterly dividend of $0.40 per common share**

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The Board of Directors of Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:GSBC), the holding company for Great Southern Bank, declared a $0.40 per common share dividend for the first quarter of the calendar year ending December 31, 2023.

The dividend will be payable on April 11, 2023, to shareholders of record on March 27, 2023. This dividend represents the 133<sup>rd</sup> consecutive quarterly dividend paid by the Company to common shareholders.

With total assets of $5.7 billion, Great Southern offers a broad range of banking services to commercial and consumer customers. Headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, the Company operates 92 retail banking centers in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Arkansas and Nebraska, and commercial loan production offices in Atlanta; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Omaha, Nebraska; Phoenix and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Great Southern Bancorp is a public company and its common stock (ticker: GSBC) is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.

***<u>www.GreatSouthernBank.com</u>***

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**Forward-looking Statements**

When used in this press release and in other documents filed or furnished by Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), in the Company's other press releases or other public or stockholder communications, and in oral statements made with the approval of an authorized executive officer, the words or phrases "may," "might," "could," "should," "will likely result," "are expected to," "will continue," "is anticipated," "believe," "estimate," "project," "intends" or similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements also include, but are not limited to, statements regarding plans, objectives, expectations or consequences of announced transactions, known trends and statements about future performance, operations, products and services of the Company. The Company's ability to predict results or the actual effects of future plans or strategies is inherently uncertain, and the Company's actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements.

Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: (i) expected revenues, cost savings, earnings accretion, synergies and other benefits from the Company's merger and acquisition activities might not be realized within the anticipated time frames or at all, and costs or difficulties relating to integration matters, including but not limited to customer and employee retention, and labor shortages might be greater than expected; (ii) changes in economic conditions, either nationally or in the Company's market areas; (iii) the remaining effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including on our credit quality and business operations, as well as its impact on general economic and financial market conditions and other uncertainties resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic; (iv) fluctuations in interest rates and the effects of inflation, a potential recession or slower economic growth caused by changes in energy prices or supply chain disruptions; (v) the risks of lending and investing activities, including changes in the level and direction of loan delinquencies and write-offs and changes in estimates of the adequacy of the allowance for credit losses; (vi) the possibility of realized or unrealized losses on securities held in the Company's investment portfolio; (vii) the Company's ability to access cost-effective funding; (viii) fluctuations in real estate values and both residential and commercial real estate market conditions; (ix) the ability to adapt successfully to technological changes to meet customers' needs and developments in the marketplace; (x) the possibility that security measures implemented might not be sufficient to mitigate the risk of a cyber-attack or cyber theft, and that such security measures might not protect against systems failures or interruptions; (xi) legislative or regulatory changes that adversely affect the Company's business; (xii) changes in accounting policies and practices or accounting standards; (xiii) results of examinations of the Company and Great Southern Bank by their regulators, including the possibility that the regulators may, among other things, require the Company to limit its business activities, change its business mix, increase its allowance for credit losses, write-down assets or increase its capital levels, or affect its ability to borrow funds or maintain or increase deposits, which could adversely affect its liquidity and earnings; (xiv) costs and effects of litigation, including settlements and judgments; (xv) competition; (xvi) uncertainty regarding the future of LIBOR and potential replacement indexes; and (xvii) natural disasters, war, terrorist activities or civil unrest and their effects on economic and business environments in which the Company operates. The Company wishes to advise readers that the factors listed above and other risks described in the 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K, including, without limitation, those described under "Item 1A. Risk Factors," and from time to time in other documents filed or furnished by the Company with the SEC, could affect the Company's financial performance and cause the Company's actual results for future periods to differ materially from any opinions or statements expressed with respect to future periods in any current statements.

The Company does not undertake-and specifically declines any obligation- to publicly release the result of any revisions which may be made to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events.

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