# EDGAR Filing Document

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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001592900-26-002073.hdr.sgml**: 20260514

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001592900-26-002073

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 497K

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**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260514

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260514

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260514

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** EA Series Trust
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001592900

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0930

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 497K
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-195493
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26977877

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 3803 WEST CHESTER PIKE, SUITE 150
- **CITY:** NEWTOWN SQUARE
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 19073
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 1.215.882.9983

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 3803 WEST CHESTER PIKE, SUITE 150
- **CITY:** NEWTOWN SQUARE
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 19073

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Alpha Architect ETF Trust
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20140428

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Empowered Funds ETF Trust
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20131125

## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### Morgan Dempsey Large Cap Value ETF (Series ID: S000080210)

| Class ID   | Class Name                         | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000241955 | Morgan Dempsey Large Cap Value ETF | MDLV            |

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| **MORGAN DEMPSEY LARGE CAP VALUE ETF**<br>**Ticker Symbol: MDLV**<br>**Listed on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.** | ***SUMMARY PROSPECTUS***<br>**May 14, 2026**<br> **https://morgandempseyfunds.com/** |
| Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information ("SAI"), which contain more information about the Fund and its risks. The current Prospectus and SAI, each dated July 31, 2025, as supplemented from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. You can find the Fund's Prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Fund, as well as recent information regarding the Fund, including its NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid/ask spreads, online at https://morgandempseyfunds.com/. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 215-330-4476. | Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information ("SAI"), which contain more information about the Fund and its risks. The current Prospectus and SAI, each dated July 31, 2025, as supplemented from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. You can find the Fund's Prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Fund, as well as recent information regarding the Fund, including its NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid/ask spreads, online at https://morgandempseyfunds.com/. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 215-330-4476. |

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**INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE**

The Morgan Dempsey Large Cap Value ETF (the "Fund") seeks to provide a high level of current income and long-term capital appreciation.

**FEES AND EXPENSES**

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund ("Shares"). **You may also pay brokerage commissions on the purchase and sale of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or example.**

**ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES (EXPENSES THAT YOU PAY EACH YEAR AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE VALUE OF YOUR INVESTMENT)**

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| Management Fee | 0.58% |
| Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |  |
| Other Expenses | 0.00% |
| Acquired Fund Fees & Expenses<sup>1</sup> | 0.00% |
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | 0.58% |

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<sup>1</sup>Restated to reflect current fees.

**EXAMPLE**

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 for the time periods indicated and then hold or sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the same. You may also pay brokerage commissions on the purchase and sale of Shares, which are not reflected in the example. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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| **One Year:** | **Three Years:** | **Five Years:** | **Ten Years:** |
| $59 | $186 | $324 | $726 |

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**PORTFOLIO TURNOVER**

The Fund may pay transaction costs, including commissions when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 22% of the average value of its portfolio.

**PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES**

The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund ("ETF") that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in dividend paying companies that the Fund's sub-adviser, Morgan Dempsey Capital Management, LLC (the "Sub-Adviser"), believes are attractively valued. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large cap companies, which it defines as companies larger than $25 billion in market capitalization. The Fund intends to typically have a weighted average market capitalization of $50 billion or larger but does have the ability to include companies with market capitalizations as small as $3

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billion at the time of purchase. It is expected that the Fund will generally hold 30 to 75 stocks (including Real Estate Investment Trusts ("REITs") and American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs")) at any one time. The Fund is not managed to mirror a particular securities index or securities benchmark. Rather, the Sub-Adviser makes investment recommendations based on the results of its fundamental research of individual companies. To identify portfolio investments, the Sub-Adviser has developed the following multi-step investment process:

**Step 1**: First, the Sub-Adviser screens all publicly traded stocks, excluding business development companies, listed on a U.S. exchange to identify companies with a market capitalization of at least $3 billion and a valuation profile that is attractive. After the completion of the screening process, the Investment Universe will generally consist of approximately 700-900 companies.

**Step 2**: The Sub-Adviser favors companies that have historically demonstrated the willingness to pay dividends. In particular, the Sub-Adviser favors companies that supported dividend payouts through historical difficult times (e.g., the 2008 financial crisis and the global COVID pandemic). The Sub-Adviser does not incorporate dividend payout ratios in its investment process, but, rather, considers free cash flow to be a more important factor in determining the ability of a company to support and grow dividends for investors.

**Step 3**: The Sub-Adviser defines "value" as any company that trades lower than the company's historical valuation history and/or if the company trades at a lower valuation than other peer companies in the same industry at the time of purchase. The Sub-Adviser utilizes a matrix of various valuation measurements in the valuation assessment process. Some of the valuation metrics generally incorporated into the process are price to earnings, price to book value, price to cash flow, price to sales, enterprise value to EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), enterprise value to sales and dividend yield. A company needs to price attractively on one or more of these measurements to be considered a "value" company by the Sub-Adviser.

**Step 4**: The Sub-Adviser favors companies that are embarking on initiatives to address issues that have caused their stocks to trade at a valuation discount to their past multiples and/or those of their respective industry. The Sub-Adviser expects these initiatives to provide a catalyst for future improvement. Examples of such initiatives may include: selling non-core pieces of the business, investing in higher growth divisions of the organization, acquiring companies that serve as a strategic fit to enhance growth, expansion of business lines into new unexplored markets, and investing in technology that creates greater economies of scale that translates into higher margins. While this is not an exhaustive list, the Sub-Adviser believes these initiatives represent common ways that management can improve the future growth of a company. This catalyst is ideally generated from initiatives within the company to create future revenue and profit growth that will generate a higher multiple for the stock. The Sub-Adviser looks to identify companies with a sustainable catalyst that will benefit investors for multiple years, rather than relying solely on expense reductions or other short-term solutions.

The Sub-Adviser expects that the Fund's portfolio will be primarily composed of the common stock of U.S. companies or REITs, although the Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in ADRs. ADRs are certificates evidencing ownership of securities of a foreign issuer. The certificates are issued by depositary banks and the underlying securities are held in trust by a custodian bank or similar institution. ADRs may be purchased on securities exchanges or directly from dealers. While it is anticipated that the Fund will invest across a range of industries, certain sectors may be overweighted relative to its benchmark because the Sub-Adviser seeks best investment opportunities regardless of sector. The sectors in which the Fund may be overweighted will vary at different points in the economic cycle.

The Sub-Adviser will generally sell or reduce the Fund's holding in a portfolio investment if the company eliminates its dividend, there is a material change in the company's catalyst or business model or if the stock's valuation makes the security, in the Sub-Adviser's view, overvalued relative to other potential investments.

**PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS**

An investment in the Fund involves risk, including those described below. *There is no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective*. An investor may lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any government agency. More complete risk descriptions are set forth below under the heading "*Additional Information About the Fund's Principal Investment Risks.*"

**Investment Risk.** As with all investments, an investment in the Fund is subject to investment risk. Investors in the Fund could lose money, including the possible loss of the entire principal amount of an investment, over short or long periods of time.

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**Equity Investing Risk.** An investment in the Fund involves risks similar to those of investing in any fund holding equity securities, such as market fluctuations, changes in interest rates and perceived trends in stock prices. The values of equity securities could decline generally or could underperform other investments. In addition, securities may decline in value due to factors affecting a specific issuer, market or securities markets generally.

**Large-Capitalization Companies Risk.** Large-capitalization companies may trail the returns of the overall stock market. Large-capitalization stocks tend to go through cycles of doing better - or worse - than the stock market in general. These periods have, in the past, lasted for as long as several years.

**Mid-Capitalization Companies Risk.** Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.

**Management Risk**. The Fund is actively-managed and may not meet its investment objective based on the Adviser's or Sub-Adviser's success or failure to implement investment strategies for the Fund. The success of the Fund's investment program depends largely on the investment techniques and risk analyses applied by the Sub-Adviser, including the use of quantitative models or methods. It is possible the investment techniques and risk analyses employed on behalf of the Fund will not produce the desired results.

**Value-Style Investing Risk.** The Sub-Adviser may be wrong in its assessment of a company's value, and the stocks the Fund owns may not reach what the Sub-Adviser believes are their true values. The market may not favor value-oriented stocks and may not favor equities at all, which may cause the Fund's relative performance to suffer. Value stocks can perform differently from the market as a whole and from other types of stocks. While certain value stocks may increase in value more quickly during periods of anticipated economic upturn, they may also lose value more quickly in periods of anticipated economic downturn. Furthermore, there is the risk that the factors which caused the depressed valuations are longer term or even permanent in nature, and that their valuations may fall or never rise.

**Dividend-Paying Common Equity Security Risk.** The Fund will normally receive income from dividends that are paid by issuers of the Fund's investments. The amount of the dividend payments may vary and depends on performance and decisions of the issuer. Poor performance by the issuer or other factors may cause the issuer to lower or eliminate dividend payments to investors, including the Fund. Additionally, these types of securities may fall out of favor with investors and underperform the broader market.

**Foreign Investment Risk.** Returns on investments in foreign securities could be more volatile than, or trail the returns on, investments in U.S. securities. Investments in or exposures to foreign securities are subject to special risks, including risks associated with foreign securities generally, including differences in information available about issuers of securities and investor protection standards applicable in other jurisdictions; capital controls risks, including the risk of a foreign jurisdiction imposing restrictions on the ability to repatriate or transfer currency or other assets; currency risks; political, diplomatic and economic risks; regulatory risks; and foreign market and trading risks, including the costs of trading and risks of settlement in foreign jurisdictions.

**REIT Risk**. A REIT is a company that owns or finances income-producing real estate. Through its investments in REITs, the Fund is subject to the risks of investing in the real estate market, including decreases in property revenues, increases in interest rates, increases in property taxes and operating expenses, legal and regulatory changes, a lack of credit or capital, defaults by borrowers or tenants, environmental problems and natural disasters. REITs are subject to additional risks, including those related to adverse governmental actions; declines in property value and the real estate market; the potential failure to qualify for tax-free pass through of income; and exemption from registration as an investment company. REITs are dependent upon specialized management skills and may invest in relatively few properties, a small geographic area, or a small number of property types. As a result, investments in REITs may be volatile. To the extent the Fund invests in REITs concentrated in specific geographic areas or property types, the Fund may be subject to a greater loss as a result of adverse developments affecting those area or property types. REITs are pooled investment vehicles with their own fees and expenses and the Fund will indirectly bear a proportionate share of those fees and expenses.

**Depositary Receipt Risk.** The risks of investments in depositary receipts, including ADRs, are substantially similar to Foreign Investment Risk. In addition, depositary receipts may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities, and their value may change materially at times when the U.S. markets are not open for trading. In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unregistered depositary

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receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders of such receipts, or to pass through any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities. Therefore, the Sub-Adviser will not be able to vote on any matters with respect to these instruments.

**Sector Risk.** If the Fund's portfolio is overweighted in a certain sector, any negative development affecting that sector will have a greater impact on the Fund than on a fund that is not overweighted in that sector.

**ETF Risks.**

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Authorized Participants, Market Makers and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk.* The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants ("APs"). In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) APs exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other APs step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Premium-Discount Risk.* The Shares may trade above or below their net asset value ("NAV"). The market prices of Shares will generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV as well as the relative supply of, and demand for, Shares on the Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (the "Exchange") or other securities exchanges. The existence of significant market volatility, disruptions to creations and redemptions, or potential lack of an active trading market for Fund Shares (including through a trading halt), among other factors, may result in the Shares trading significantly above (at a premium) or below (at a discount) to NAV. If you buy Fund Shares when their market price is at a premium or sell the Fund Shares when their market price is at a discount, you may pay more than, or receive less than, NAV, respectively.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Cost of Trading Risk.* Investors buying or selling Shares in the secondary market will pay brokerage commissions or other charges imposed by brokers as determined by that broker. Brokerage commissions are often a fixed amount and may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Shares. In addition, secondary market investors incur the cost of the "spread" also known as the "bid-ask spread", which is the difference between what investors are willing to pay for Fund Shares (the "bid" price) and the price at which they are willing to sell Fund Shares (the "ask" price). The bid-ask spread varies over time based on, among other things, trading volume, market liquidity and market volatility. Because of the costs inherent in buying or selling Fund Shares, frequent trading may detract significantly from investment results and an investment in Fund Shares may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly making small investments due to the associated trading costs.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Trading Risk.* Although the Shares are listed on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active or liquid trading market for them will develop or be maintained. In addition, trading in Shares on the Exchange may be halted. In stressed market conditions, the liquidity of the Fund's Shares may begin to mirror the liquidity of its underlying portfolio holdings, which can be significantly less liquid than the Fund's Shares, potentially causing the market price of the Fund's Shares to deviate from its NAV.

**PERFORMANCE**

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows the Fund's performance for calendar years ended December 31. The table shows how the Fund's average annual returns for one-year and since inception periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. The Fund's past performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Performance information is also available on the Fund's website at https://morgandempseyfunds.com/ or by calling the Fund at (215) 330-4476.

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**Calendar Year Total Returns as of December 31**

![chart-012b15ef31384d9b881.jpg](chart-012b15ef31384d9b881.jpg)

The Fund's calendar year-to-date return as of June 30, 2025 was 6.32%. During the period of time shown in the bar chart, the Fund's highest return for a calendar quarter was 11.01% (quarter ended September 30, 2024) and the Fund's lowest return for a calendar quarter was -5.16% (quarter ended December 31, 2024).

**Average Annual Total Returns**

**For the Periods Ended December 31, 2024**

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| **Morgan Dempsey Large Cap Value ETF** | **1 Year** | **Since Inception**<br>**(04/25/2023)** |
| Return Before Taxes | 10.03% | 5.56% |
| Return After Taxes on Distributions | 9.30% | 4.77% |
| Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | 6.44% | 4.20% |
| Solactive GBS United States 1000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) | 24.06% | 25.85% |
| Solactive US Large Cap Minimum Downside Volatility Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) | 15.75% | 11.56% |

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After-tax returns are calculated using the highest historical individual U.S. federal marginal income tax rates during the period covered by the table above and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as an individual retirement account ("IRA") or other tax-advantaged accounts.

**INVESTMENT ADVISER & INVESTMENT SUB-ADVISER**

Investment Adviser: Empowered Funds, LLC dba EA Advisers ("Adviser") <br> Investment Sub-Adviser: Morgan Dempsey Capital Management, LLC ("Sub-Adviser")

**PORTFOLIO MANAGERS**

Marc Dion is a Portfolio Manager of the Sub-Adviser and has been jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund since its inception in April 2023.

Dave Isaacson is a Portfolio Specialist of the Sub-Adviser and has been jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund since its inception in April 2023.

Ryan Hamilton is a Portfolio Manager of the Sub-Adviser and has been jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund since its inception in April 2023.

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**PURCHASE AND SALE OF SHARES** 

Individual Shares are listed on a national securities exchange and may only be purchased and sold in the secondary market through a broker-dealer at a market price. Because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (at a "premium") or less than NAV (at a "discount"). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying and selling Shares in the secondary market (the "bid/ask spread").

**TAX INFORMATION** 

The Fund's distributions generally are taxable to you as ordinary income, capital gain, or some combination of both, unless your investment is made through an Individual Retirement Account ("IRA") or other tax-advantaged account. However, subsequent withdrawals from such a tax-advantaged account may be subject to U.S. federal income tax. You should consult your own tax advisor about your specific tax situation.

**PURCHASES THROUGH BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES** 

If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend Shares over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.