secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST)
CIK:        0001624322
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-06-24T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-22-015814
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.30
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Business First Bancshares shareholders approve 2022 equity plan amendment; all directors elected
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- All 17 director nominees elected; each received >10.5M votes, with ~4M broker non-votes.
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with ~11.57M For, ~0.22M Against.
- 2022 Amendment to 2017 Equity Incentive Plan approved: ~6.32M For vs ~5.44M Against (54% of votes cast).
- Ratification of FORVIS, LLP as auditor for 2022 approved with ~15.8M For votes.
- Annual meeting held June 23, 2022.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1624322/000143774922015814/0001437749-22-015814-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1624322/000143774922015814/bfbi20220623_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-015814

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