# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001624322
**File Stem:** 0000000000-25-009614
**Filing Date:** 2025-9
**Character Count:** 2228
**Document Hash:** aa7b0c6df7e31d223644d2e119bd660f
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000000000-25-009614.hdr.sgml**: 20251121

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000000000-25-009614

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: UPLOAD

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250905

**FILED FOR**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Business First Bancshares, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001624322
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 205340628
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** LA
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** UPLOAD
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-289858

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 500 LAUREL STREET
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 101
- **CITY:** BATON ROUGE
- **STATE:** LA
- **ZIP:** 70801
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 225-248-7600

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 500 LAUREL STREET
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 101
- **CITY:** BATON ROUGE
- **STATE:** LA
- **ZIP:** 70801
**PUBLIC REFERENCE ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001437749-25-027748

## Text-Extract

```

                                                           September 5, 2025

David R. Melville, III
Chief Executive Officer
Business First Bancshares, Inc.
500 Laurel Street, Suite 101
Baton Rouge, LA 70801

        Re: Business First Bancshares, Inc.
            Registration Statement on Form S-4
            Filed August 26, 2025
            File No. 333-289858
Dear David R. Melville, III:

       This is to advise you that we have not reviewed and will not review your
registration
statement.

        Please refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration.
We remind you
that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of their
disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action
by the staff.

       Please contact Aisha Adegbuyi at 202-551-8754 with any questions.

                                                           Sincerely,

                                                           Division of
Corporation Finance
                                                           Office of Finance
cc:    Beth Whitaker, Esq.

```

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