# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001058867
**File Stem:** 0000950170-23-006857
**Filing Date:** 2023-3
**Character Count:** 5897
**Document Hash:** a38ff58387c1afc89643c495e7d41f8d
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000950170-23-006857.hdr.sgml**: 20230309

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000950170-23-006857

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20230309

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Other Events

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230309

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230309

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** GUARANTY BANCSHARES INC /TX/
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001058867
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 751656431
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** TX
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-38087
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23718390

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 201 SOUTH JEFFERSON AVENUE
- **CITY:** MOUNT PLEASANT
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 75455
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 9035729881

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 201 SOUTH JEFFERSON AVENUE
- **CITY:** MOUNT PLEASANT
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 75455

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

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**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 9, 2023

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GUARANTY BANCSHARES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| Texas | 001-38087 | 75-1656431 |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
| 16475 Dallas Parkway**,** Suite 600<br>Addison**,** Texas |  | 75001 |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) |  | (Zip Code) |

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**(**888**)** 572-9881

(Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

**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 (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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| &nbsp;&nbsp;**Title of each class** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**Trading symbol** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share  | &nbsp;&nbsp;GNTY | &nbsp;&nbsp;NYSE |

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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 8.01. Other Events.**

On March 9, 2023, Guaranty Bancshares, Inc., the parent company of Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A. (the "Bank"), publicly disseminated a press release announcing the declaration of a quarterly dividend on its common stock.

A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

**Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits**

**(d) Exhibits.**

The following is furnished as an exhibit to this Current Report on Form 8-K:

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| **Exhibit**<br>**Number** | **Description of Exhibit** |
| 99.1 | [<u>Press Release dated March 9, 2023, announcing a quarterly dividend on its common stock</u>](gnty-ex99_1.htm) |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive File (formatted as Inline XBRL) |

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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.

Dated: March 9, 2023

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|  | GUARANTY BANCSHARES, INC. |
| By: | /s/ Tyson T. Abston |
| Name: | Tyson T. Abston |
| Title: | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer |

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## Ex-99

**Exhibit 99.1**

Press Release

For Immediate Release

**Guaranty Bancshares, Inc.**

**Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend**

Addison, Texas – March 9, 2023 / Business Wire / – The Board of Directors of Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. (NYSE: GNTY), the parent company of Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A., declared a quarterly cash dividend on March 8, 2023, in the amount of $0.23 per share of common stock. The approved cash dividend represents a 4.5% increase from the $0.22 per share quarterly cash dividend paid during 2022 and will be paid on April 12, 2023, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 27, 2023.

**About Guaranty Bancshares**

Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. is the parent company for Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A. and has 32 banking locations across 26 Texas communities located within the East Texas, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and Central Texas regions of the state. As of December 31, 2022, Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. had total assets of $3.4 billion, total loans of $2.4 billion and total deposits of $2.7 billion. Visit <u>www.gnty.com</u> for more information.

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**Contact Information:**

Cappy Payne<br>Senior Executive Vice President & Company CFO <br>Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. <br>(888) 572-9881

investors@gnty.com

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