# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000846617
**File Stem:** 0000846617-25-000036
**Filing Date:** 2025-7
**Character Count:** 6872
**Document Hash:** 9c6b151e47f5c9a570cac7656a8fd277
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000846617-25-000036.hdr.sgml**: 20250724

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000846617-25-000036

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250724

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Other Events

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250724

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250724

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000846617
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 112934195
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** NY
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-34096
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251147421

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 898 VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 560
- **CITY:** HAUPPAUGE
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 11788
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 6315371000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 898 VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 560
- **CITY:** HAUPPAUGE
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 11788

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** BRIDGE BANCORP, INC.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20190819

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** BRIDGE BANCORP INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19940715

?xml version='1.0' encoding='ASCII'? DIME COMMUNITY BANCSHARES, INC._July 24, 2025

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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): July 24, 2025**

**DIME COMMUNITY BANCSHARES, INC.**

**(Exact name of the registrant as specified in its charter)**

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| **New York** | **001-34096** | **11-2934195** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**(State or other jurisdiction of**<br>**incorporation or organization)** | **(Commission File Number)** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**(IRS Employer**<br>**Identification No.)** |

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|:---|:---|
| **898 Veterans Memorial Highway, Suite 560** |  |
| **Hauppauge, New York** | **11788** |
| **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**(631) 537-1000**

**(Registrant's telephone number)**

**N/A**

**(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)

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

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

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading**<br>**Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| Common Stock, $0.01 Par Value | DCOM | The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC |
| Preferred Stock, Series A, $0.01 Par Value | DCOMP | The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC |
| 9.000% Junior Subordinated Notes, $25.00 Par Value | DCOMG | 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 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Other Events
On July 24, 2025, the Registrant announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.34375 per share on the Company's 5.50% Fixed-Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, payable on August 15, 2025 to holders of record as of August 8, 2025. The text of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. Exhibit 99.1 to this report is being "furnished" to the SEC and shall not be deemed "filed" for any purpose.

#### Item 9.01&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial Statements and Exhibits
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(d) (d) Exhibits

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| 99.1 | [Press Release of the Registrant, dated July 24, 2025.](dcom-20250724xex99d1.htm) |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL) |

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#### SIGNATURE
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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|  | Dime Community Bancshares, Inc.<br>(Registrant) |
| DATE: July 24, 2025 | /s/ Avinash Reddy |
|  | Avinash Reddy |
|  | Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |

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## Exhibit 99.1

**EXHIBIT 99.1**

![Graphic](dcom-20250724xex99d1001.jpg)

**Dime Community Bancshares Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend for**

**Series A Preferred Stock**

Hauppauge, NY – July 24, 2025 – Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCOM, DCOMP and DCOMG) (the "Company") announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.34375 per share on the Company's 5.50% Fixed-Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, payable on August 15, 2025 to holders of record as of August 8, 2025.

**ABOUT DIME COMMUNITY BANCSHARES, INC.**

Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. is the holding company for Dime Community Bank, a New York State-chartered trust company with over $14 billion in assets and the number one deposit market share among community banks on Greater Long Island <sup>(1)</sup>.

**Dime Community Bancshares, Inc.**<br>Investor Relations Contact:<br>Avinash Reddy<br>Senior Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer<br>Phone: 718-782-6200; Ext. 5909<br>Email: avinash.reddy@dime.com

¹ Aggregate deposit market share for Kings, Queens, Nassau & Suffolk counties for community banks with less than $20 billion in assets.

**Forward-Looking Statements**

*Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated.*

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