secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST)
CIK:        0001624322
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-05-27T20:07:19+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-26-018540
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.20
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Business First Bancshares shareholders elect 16 directors, approve advisory pay vote, ratify auditor
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- All 16 director nominees elected; George W. Cummings III received 12.1M for vs 6.2M against.
- Non-binding advisory vote on named executive officer compensation passed: 17.9M for, 230K against.
- Ratification of Forvis Mazars, LLP as auditor for FY 2026 approved: 23.6M for, 123K against.
- Approximately 72.62% of outstanding shares (23.7M) were represented at the meeting.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1624322/000143774926018540/0001437749-26-018540-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1624322/000143774926018540/bfbi20260527_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-018540

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