Peoples Bancorp Inc. (PEBO)

In the past six months, Peoples Bancorp, Inc. announced its fourth quarter and annual results for 2025 on January 20, 2026, and declared a quarterly dividend on the same date, with another quarterly dividend declared earlier on October 21, 2025. The company announced its intention to release fourth-quarter 2025 earnings on January 20, 2026, on December 29, 2025, and is scheduled to announce its first-quarter 2026 earnings and conduct a conference call on April 21, 2026. Over the last 12 months, PEBO's stock price rose, short interest increased, and insider selling occurred, attributed to routine portfolio management, scheduled trading plans, tax planning, or compensation-related dispositions.

Demand for Peoples Bancorp, Inc.'s products and services, particularly deposits, can exhibit seasonality, with governmental deposit accounts experiencing an increase in the first quarter of 2025 due to seasonality, followed by a decrease in the second quarter of 2025, also attributed to seasonality, and insurance income showing seasonal performance-based commissions being paid in the first quarter of each year. The banking industry experiences seasonal fluctuations, with loan demand varying and marketing efforts for bank products showing seasonality.

Peoples Bancorp, Inc. (Ohio) is a diversified financial services holding company operating in the commercial banking industry, headquartered in Marietta, Ohio, since 1902. It offers a comprehensive suite of financial products and services through its subsidiaries, including deposit accounts, lending products, trust and investment services, insurance products, premium financing, and equipment leasing solutions. The company also provides merchant credit card transaction processing, corporate and personal trust services, brokerage services, debit and ATM cards, safe deposit rentals, money orders, cashier's checks, and online, telephone, and mobile banking services.

Peoples Bancorp, Inc. operates an extensive network of full-service bank branches across multiple states and the District of Columbia. As of December 31, 2025, the company had 144 locations, including 126 full-service bank branches, with a geographic footprint including Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Maryland.

Peoples Bancorp, Inc. has received several positive recognitions for its brand and workplace culture in the past year, including being recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America's Greatest Workplaces, named one of the Best Banks to Work For by American Banker, voted as the Best Bank and Best Financial Planner by readers of the Portsmouth Daily Times, recognized as a Top Workplace for the Greater Louisville area by the Louisville Courier Journal, voted the Best Bank in the Tri-State for Lawrence County, OH, Cabell County, WV, and Boyd County, KY, by Herald Dispatch readers, named to TIME's America's Growth Leaders, and recognized by S&P Global as a Top 50 Community Bank and by USA Today as a Top Workplace.

Institutional investors hold a significant portion of Peoples Bancorp, Inc.'s shares, collectively holding 60.82% as of July 2025, with major institutional shareholders including The Vanguard Group, Inc., Franklin Resources, Inc., State Street Global Advisors, Inc., AllianceBernstein L.P., Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., BlackRock, Inc., and Dimensional Fund Advisors Lp. Individual ownership accounts for 3.36% of the shares.