Business First Bancshares, Inc.

Insider purchase · SEC EDGAR

This page reproduces a recorded source event. It is not a live quote, forecast, recommendation or legal conclusion.

Event type

insider.buy

Occurred

2026-07-28

Reported

2026-07-29

Disclosure lag

1 days

Context

links are based on the recorded entity type

Field	Recorded value
Entity	Business First Bancshares, Inc.
Source	SEC EDGAR ↗
News section	companies
Source identifier	0001437749-26-024885
Source-linked related entities	day-rick-d-1811427 · person
Event ID	#138899

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same canonical or source-linked entity relations

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Recorded payload

JSON payload as stored after parsing

{
  "accession": "0001437749-26-024885",
  "acquired_disposed": "A",
  "code": "P",
  "direct_or_indirect": "D",
  "form": "4",
  "is_derivative": false,
  "issuer_name": "Business First Bancshares, Inc.",
  "label": "Open market purchase",
  "person_name": "Day Rick D.",
  "price": 31.61,
  "role": "Director",
  "security": "COMMON STOCK",
  "shares": 1500,
  "shares_owned_after": 269901,
  "source_path": "edgar/data/1624322/0001437749-26-024885.txt",
  "ticker": "BFST",
  "value": 47415
}

Evidence-based analysis

facts, provenance and explicit model coverage

Descriptive evidence from the stored source record; it is not advice, a forecast or a legal conclusion.

Dimension	Status / value	Method or boundary
What happened	not_covered	The source record has no short title or summary.
When	source_backed · reported 2026-07-29	Occurred 2026-07-28. Source-record timestamps; no timezone or event time is inferred.
Affected entities	resolved · Business First Bancshares, Inc. · 1 related	Canonical primary entity and stored related_entity_ids only.
Event classification	insider · insider.buy	canonical event type plus source-provided category; no sentiment or impact is inferred
Entity linking	resolved	Canonical entity resolved during ingestion
Deduplication	applied	unique source event key at ingestion
Source trust	high · terms allowed	Source registry metadata
Sentiment	not_covered	No sentiment model output is published for this record.
Market reaction	not_covered	Requires licensed quote, candle and volume observations for the affected instrument.
Historical analogs	not_covered	Requires an audited event-cluster corpus and matching methodology.
Impact mechanism	not_covered	No causal market-impact model is published for this record.
Related risks	not_covered	Risk implications require an audited instrument/entity exposure model.
Instrument linkage	not_covered	No instrument relation is inferred from an entity event; licensed instrument mapping is required.

Source: Open recorded SEC filing

Source: SEC EDGAR · as of 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z