President & Chief Lending Officer · HOME BANCSHARES INC (HOMB)

Kevin D. Hester

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Kevin D. Hester as a named executive officer of HOME BANCSHARES; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,003,688

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed February 27, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Kevin D. Hester compensation by year

HOME BANCSHARES Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as HOME BANCSHARES reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$574,641
Bonus$0
Stock awards$0
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$345,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$84,047
Total$1,003,688

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: HOME BANCSHARES INC DEF 14A filed February 27, 2026, accession 0001331520-26-000055, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

4 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed February 27, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-04-22W—1,628$0.00165,903
2026-04-20Exercise or conversion—20,000$21.25179,912
2026-04-20Tax withholding—15,637$27.18164,275
2026-04-20Exercise or conversion derivative—20,000$0.000

The 4 most recent of 4 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments HOME BANCSHARES discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Death—$2,414,820—$2,781,355
Disability—$2,414,820—$2,781,355
Change in control, no termination$2,368,315$2,414,820—$4,783,135

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in HOME BANCSHARES INC's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

HOME BANCSHARES’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
John W. AllisonChairman of the Board and CEO$7,221,420
J. Stephen TiptonChief Operating Officer and CEO of Centennial Bank$1,069,096
Kevin D. Hester · this pagePresident & Chief Lending Officer$1,003,688
Donna J. TownsellSenior Executive Vice President and Director of Investor Relations$775,920
Brian S. DavisChief Financial Officer and Treasurer$754,146

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are HOME BANCSHARES's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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