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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001206774-25-000374"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFST"
cik: "0001090009"
company_name: "SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T22:08:33.741568+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "low"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Annual meeting votes confirm director slate, compensation plan, and auditor ratification

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected with majority support; broker non-votes of 746,180 on each.
- Non-binding say-on-pay approved with 5,540,020 votes for, 1,069,591 against.
- Frequency of future advisory votes set at one year (6,262,557 votes for).
- Elliott Davis ratified as independent auditor with 7,267,562 votes for.
- Presentation for annual meeting furnished; no material financial updates disclosed in filing text.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001206774-25-000374
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFST
- cik: 0001090009
- company_name: SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: low
- sec_items: 5.07, 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090009/000120677425000374/0001206774-25-000374-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090009/000120677425000374/sfst4489311-8k.htm

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