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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-018487"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BFST"
cik: "0001624322"
company_name: "Business First Bancshares, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T10:48:56.827000+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Business First Bancshares reports shareholder vote results from 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- All 16 director nominees elected with substantial majority votes; broker non-votes of 5,165,400 on each.
- Say-on-pay approved: 14,283,462 for, 1,075,794 against, 54,775 abstain.
- Ratification of Forvis Mazars as auditor for FY2025: 20,401,867 for, 159,477 against, 18,087 abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-018487
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BFST
- cik: 0001624322
- company_name: Business First Bancshares, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1624322/000143774925018487/0001437749-25-018487-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1624322/000143774925018487/bfbi20250527_8k.htm

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