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Business First Bancshares, Inc.: meeting of 22 May 2025
Votes reported on Form N-PX, item by item
255 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the Business First Bancshares, Inc. meeting of 22 May 2025. Their records fall into 3 items below, in ballot order: management items first, then proposals from security holders. Each bar shows how the reporting filers split; it is not the result of the meeting.
foragainstabstain, withhold or otheramber tick: the portion cast against management
Items
DIRECTOR ELECTIONSIssuer
Director elections
16 nominees; 98.1% of reported votes for; 12 filers withheld from or voted against at least one nominee.
3,008 vote records from 99 filers. 2 of the 99 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTESIssuer
Advisory vote on executive pay (say-on-pay)
372 vote records from 253 filers. 17 of the 246 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 7 filers reported this item without a management mark.
AUDIT-RELATEDIssuer
Audit-related items (auditor ratification)
188 vote records from 99 filers. 1 of the 99 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
How the largest families voted
* against management. A family's position is the way most of its reported shares were voted across its filers; "split" means no single position led. "No report" means none of the family's filers listed the item.
Questions
How did large funds vote at the Business First Bancshares, Inc. meeting?
255 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the meeting of 22 May 2025. On say-on-pay, 17 of 246 voted against management (6.9%). The family table lists each of the largest families item by item.
Is this the meeting result?
No. These are the votes of funds and managers that file Form N-PX, counted by filer and by the shares they reported. The certified result, which includes every shareholder, is reported by Business First Bancshares, Inc. on Form 8-K.
Why are director elections shown as counts only?
Director records name the nominee. This site does not publish pages or rows about individuals, so for director elections it keeps the number of nominees and the split of votes and discards the wording.
Every meeting on file for Business First Bancshares, Inc.
Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings listing Business First Bancshares, Inc. with a meeting date within three days of 22 May 2025. Proposal titles are the most common wording among filers and are replaced by the SEC category where a wording could name a person. Not verified by the SEC. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026.