# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001778784
**File Stem:** 0001437749-25-029309
**Filing Date:** 2025-9
**Character Count:** 6003
**Document Hash:** 6b7ca5a404d5993e77bc2520a45f88f0
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001437749-25-029309.hdr.sgml**: 20250917

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001437749-25-029309

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250916

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250917

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250917

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Provident Bancorp, Inc. /MD/
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001778784
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS, NOT FEDERALLY CHARTERED [6036]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 844132422
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-39090
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251320670

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 5 MARKET STREET
- **CITY:** AMESBURY
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 01913
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (978) 388-0050

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 5 MARKET STREET
- **CITY:** AMESBURY
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 01913

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**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): September 16, 2025

**<u>PROVIDENT BANCORP, INC.</u>**

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| <u>Maryland</u> | <u>Maryland</u> | <u>001-39090</u> | <u>001-39090</u> | <u>84-4132422</u> |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction | (State or Other Jurisdiction | (Commission File No.) | (Commission File No.) | (I.R.S. Employer |
| of Incorporation) | of Incorporation) |  |  | Identification No.) |
|  | <u><u>5 Market Street</u>, <u>Amesbury</u>, <u>Massachusetts</u></u> | <u><u>5 Market Street</u>, <u>Amesbury</u>, <u>Massachusetts</u></u> | <u>01913</u> | |
|  | (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) | |

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Registrant's telephone number, including area code: <u>(<u>877</u>) <u>487-2977</u></u>

<u>Not Applicable</u>

(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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ 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))

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

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| Title of each class | Trading Symbol | Name of each exchange on which registered |
| Common stock | PVBC | 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. ☐

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**Item 5.07:** <u>**Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders**</u>

On September 16, 2025, Provident Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") held a Special Meeting of Stockholders (the "Meeting"). The Meeting was held for the purpose of considering and voting on proposals related to the proposed acquisition of the Company by NB Bancorp, Inc ("Needham"). The proposals are described in detail in the joint proxy statement/prospectus included in the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed by Needham with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 2, 2025, as supplemented by the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company with the SEC on September 5, 2025.

**<u>Proposal 1:</u>** to approve the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 5, 2025 (the "merger agreement"), by and among Needham, Needham Bank, 1828 MS, Inc., the Company, and BankProv, and to approve the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, including the merger of 1828 MS, Inc. with and into the Company, with the Company as the surviving entity (the "Merger")

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|  | **Votes For** | **Votes Against** | **Votes Abstained** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
| **Common Stock** | 11985629 | 103856 | 2153 | 0 |

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**<u>Proposal 2:</u>** to approve, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, specified compensation that may become payable to the named executive officers of the Company in connection with the Merger.

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
|  | **Votes For** | **Votes Against** | **Votes Abstained** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
| **Common Stock** | 7305003 | 4397758 | 388877 | 0 |

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**Item 9.01:** <u>**Financial Statements and Exhibits**</u>

(d) Exhibits

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| **Exhibit No.** | **Description** |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |

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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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|  | **PROVIDENT BANCORP, INC.** | **PROVIDENT BANCORP, INC.** |
| Date: September 17, 2025 | By: | /s/ Joseph B. Reilly |
|  |  | Joseph B. Reilly |
|  |  | President and Chief Executive Officer |

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