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): May 29, 2026
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ITEM 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
On May 29, 2026, Carter Bankshares, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it has completed a strategic repositioning of a portion of its securities available-for-sale portfolio (the “Portfolio Repositioning”). In the Portfolio Repositioning, the Company sold $139.4 million in book value of securities available-for-sale with a weighted average yield of 2.28% and representing approximately 18.7% of the Company’s securities portfolio, and purchased approximately $88.5 million of securities available-for-sale with a weighted average yield of approximately 5.27%. All of the securities purchased were rated AAA or AA by a recognized credit rating agency. The Company expects to use the remaining proceeds from the Portfolio Repositioning to fund organic loan growth. Based solely on information available to the Company on the date hereof, the Company estimates that the Portfolio Repositioning will result in a pre-tax loss on the sale of securities of approximately $12.5 million, which will be included in the Company’s financial results for the second quarter of 2026. Based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, on a pro forma basis, the Company expects that the estimated pre-tax loss on the Portfolio Repositioning will be recovered over approximately 2.98 years and that the Portfolio Repositioning will improve the Company’s interest income by approximately $4.2 million annually.
Important Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This report contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including with respect to the financial consequences of the Portfolio Restructuring. Forward looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as “will likely result,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “project,” “intend,” “believe,” “assume,” “strategy,” “trend,” “plan,” “outlook,” “outcome,” “continue,” “remain,” “potential,” “opportunity,” “comfortable,” “current,” “position,” “maintain,” “sustain,” “seek,” “achieve” and variations of such words and similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as will, would, should, could or may. These statements are not guarantees of future results or performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict and often are beyond the Company’s control. Although the Company believes the assumptions upon which these forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, any of these assumptions could prove to be inaccurate and the forward-looking statements based on these assumptions could be incorrect. Actual results may differ significantly from those expressed in or implied by these forward-looking statements.
The matters discussed in these forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results and trends to differ materially from those made, projected, or implied in or by the forward-looking statements including, but not limited to the effects of: the possibility that the expected financial impacts of the Portfolio Restructuring may differ from current expectations, including as a result of changes in how proceeds from the Portfolio Restructuring are reinvested; business, economic, tax and other factors affecting the Portfolio Restructuring; market interest rates and the impacts of market interest rates on economic conditions, customer behavior, and the Company’s net interest margin, net interest income, funding costs and its deposit, loan and securities portfolios; changes in accounting policies, practices, or guidance, for example, the Company’s adoption of Current Expected Credit Losses (“CECL”) methodology, including potential volatility in the Company’s operating results due to application of the CECL methodology; changes in the Company’s liquidity and capital positions; concentrations of loans secured by real estate, particularly CRE loans, and the potential impacts of changes in market conditions on the value of real estate collateral; and other factors described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025. All risk factors and uncertainties described herein and therein should be considered in evaluating the Company’s forward-looking statements.
The Company cautions you not to unduly rely on forward-looking statements because the assumptions, beliefs, expectations and projections about future events are expressed in or implied by a forward-looking statement may, and often do, differ materially from actual results. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as to the date on which it is made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update, revise or clarify any forward-looking statement to reflect developments occurring after the statement is made, except as required by law.
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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.
| CARTER BANKSHARES, INC. | |||||
| (Registrant) | |||||
| Date: May 29, 2026 | By: | /s/ Wendy S. Bell | ||||||
| Name: | Wendy S. Bell | |||||||
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||||||