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(b) Not applicable.
−Removed: (c) During the three months ended March 31, 2025, no director or officer of the Company adopted or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading agreement,” as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.
+Added: (c) During the three months ended June 30, 2025, no director or officer of the Company adopted or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading agreement,” as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.
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+Added: 2.1 Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated July 7 , 202 5 , by and between Business First Bancshares, Inc., and Progressive Bancorp , Inc.
+Added: (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Business First Bancshares, Inc.
+Added: on July 7 , 202 5 ).
3.1 Restated Articles of Incorporation of Business First Bancshares, Inc., adopted October 27, 2022 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, filed by Business First Bancshares, Inc.
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on September 1, 2022).
+Added: 10.1 Form of Voting Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Business First Bancshares, Inc.
+Added: on July 7, 2025).
+Added: 10.2 Form of Director Support Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Business First Bancshares, Inc.
+Added: on July 7, 2025).
31.1 Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002*
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BUSINESS FIRST BANCSHARES, INC.
−Removed: May 2, 2025 /s/ David R.
+Added: August 5, 2025 /s/ David R.
Melville, III
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Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: May 2, 2025 /s/ Gregory Robertson
+Added: August 5, 2025 /s/ Gregory Robertson
Gregory Robertson
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.