Termination of Material Agreement (Form 8-K)

Item 1.02 Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement.

On September 21, 2026, Stewards, Inc. (the "Company") and Accretiv Investment Holdings Inc., a Georgia corporation (the "Lender"), entered into a Termination and Release Agreement, effective as of the same date (the "Termination Agreement"), pursuant to which the parties terminated and cancelled in their entirety (i) the Promissory Note dated as of September 2, 2026, issued by the Company to the Lender in the original principal amount of $1,500,000 (the "Note") and (ii) the related Security Agreement dated as of September 2, 2026 (the "Security Agreement"). The Company has no material relationship with the Lender other than in respect of the Note, the Security Agreement, the Termination Agreement, and the financing contemplated by those agreements.

As previously disclosed in the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 4, 2026, the Note contemplated secured, short-term bridge financing in the original principal amount of $1,500,000. If funded, the principal would have been due on September 21, 2026, and a fixed lender return of $75,000 would have been payable on or before November 30, 2026. The Security Agreement provided for a junior security interest in substantially all of the Company's personal property, subordinate to the Company's existing senior liens.

The Lender did not advance any portion of the contemplated principal, the Company did not receive any loan proceeds from the Lender, and no funding date occurred under the Note. Accordingly, no principal is outstanding, the $75,000 lender return was not earned, no event of default occurred, and the Company does not owe the Lender any principal, interest, default interest, liquidated damages, fee, expense, enforcement cost, indemnity, or other amount under or in connection with the Note or the Security Agreement.

Under the Termination Agreement, the Note and the Security Agreement are of no further force or effect. The Lender irrevocably released every actual, asserted, contingent, or purported lien or security interest arising under or in connection with those agreements. The Lender represented that it had not filed or authorized any UCC financing statement or similar lien record in connection with the financing. If such a record is later identified, the Lender must take the actions required by the Termination Agreement to terminate it.

The Company and the Lender granted mutual releases of claims arising from or relating to the Note, the Security Agreement, the contemplated financing, and the absence of funding, subject to specified exclusions for claims arising from a breach of the Termination Agreement or from fraud or intentional misrepresentation in connection with the Termination Agreement. The Termination Agreement does not constitute an admission of liability, wrongdoing, or breach by either party.

The Company incurred no early termination penalty and is not required to pay any termination fee or other amount to the Lender in connection with the termination.

The foregoing description of the Termination Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Termination Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.