secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST)
CIK:        0001624322
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-23-021032
Event type: other
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.20
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Business First Bancshares annual meeting results; all directors elected, say-on-pay approved, auditor ratified
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- All 17 director nominees elected with votes for ranging from ~11.4M to ~14.5M; broker non-votes of 4.0M shares each.
- Advisory say-on-pay proposal approved: 8,617,348 for, 5,762,967 against, 266,623 abstain.
- Ratification of FORVIS, LLP as independent auditor for FY 2023: 18,563,368 for, 43,947 against, 43,501 abstain.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1624322/000143774923021032/0001437749-23-021032-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1624322/000143774923021032/bfbi20230728_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-021032

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