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Business First Bancshares, Inc. insider trading

In twelve months insiders at Business First Bancshares bought $92.3K and sold $6.6M on the open market; none of the 29 sales was under a plan set in advance.

Bought on the open market$92.3K3 purchases
Sold on the open market$6.6M29 sales
Sales set in advanceNoneall 29 chosen by the insider
Pay taken in stockNone
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  1. Insiders are the people who run the company: officers, directors and owners of 10% or more. They must report a trade on Form 4 within two business days.
  2. A purchase on the open market is the strongest sign: the insider spent their own money.
  3. A sale under a trading plan (Rule 10b5-1) says little: its dates were fixed months before. Sales outside a plan say more, but insiders sell for many reasons, such as taxes or a house.
  4. Grants, option exercises and shares held back for tax are left out.
  5. What is a Form 4? · Form 4 codes

What kind of trades

3 purchases worth $92.3K against 29 sales worth $6.6M; no sale was under a plan set in advance.

Purchasebought with their own money
Pay in stock, own choiceowed cash, chose shares
Sale outside a planthe insider picked the day
Sale under a plandates fixed months before
Says littlecompany plans, board pay, cash units
Bought
3 open market
Sold
29 outside a plan

Every Form 4 line of the last twelve months, counted by kind. The grades come from the filing itself: whether the insider paid cash, whether a plan set the date, whether pay was taken in stock by choice.

Insider trades on the share price

last twelve months

31 marks over twelve months, each in its grade: solid for the stronger signs, hollow or grey for the ones that say little.

PurchasePay in stock, own choiceSale outside a planSale under a planSays little

The blue line is the daily close over twelve months. Each mark is one insider's trades on one day, on that day's price, sized by dollar value. Solid marks are the stronger signs; hollow and grey marks say little. Hover or tap a mark for who, how much and why.

Trades worth a closer look

A purchase stands out when two or more of these hold: a senior insider, several insiders buying within 90 days, a fall of 10% or more in the three months before, or over $1 million. A sale outside a plan is judged the same way. These are the Feed's rules.

Who traded

dollars, twelve months

10 insiders traded. The most: Cummings George W. Iii, sale outside a plan $5.2M.

One row per insider, sold to the left and bought to the right, split by grade: the paler part of a bar is the part that says little.

How it compares

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Open-market sales, twelve months

Open-market purchases, twelve months

    The bar ranks every company on the site from the lowest on the left to the highest on the right, in three equal thirds; the small figures under it are the values where each third starts, and the black tick is the middle company. The orange dot is this company; the grey ticks are the other companies in its industry (hover or tap for names). A hatched block is companies tied at none.

    Every Form 4 line

    Purchase: bought on the open market with their own moneyTook pay in stock, own choice: owed cash, chose shares instead; a softer signSale: sold on the open market, not under a plan set in advanceSale, trading plan: under a Rule 10b5-1 plan set up months before, so the date was fixed in advanceGrey lines: plan purchases, pay in stock taken by the whole board or under a company plan, and units paid in cash; they say little about the insider's own view
    TradedInsiderRoleTypeSharesPriceValueFiling
    24 August 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 12% rise over three months · 3% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 24 August 202610,000$31.33$313,300Form 4
    21 August 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 12% rise over three months · 4% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 18 August 20264,200$31.27$131,334Form 4
    19 August 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 11% rise over three months · 4% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 18 August 20263,235$31.80$102,873Form 4
    18 August 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 18% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 18 August 202610,000$31.78$317,800Form 4
    6 August 2026Carter Donald ChadEVP, Correspondent BankingSaleafter a 15% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 6 August 20261,875$31.64$59,325Form 4
    5 August 2026Hall William G., by: Align Capital, LLCDirectorSaleafter a 16% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 5 August 20269,723$31.97$310,844Form 4
    5 August 2026Hall William G., by: Align Opportunities, LPDirectorSaleafter a 16% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 5 August 20261,666$31.97$53,262Form 4
    5 August 2026Strong SaundraEVP & General CounselSaleafter a 16% rise over three months · at its one-year high1,000$31.98$31,980Form 4
    3 August 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 18% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 30 July 202610,000$31.87$318,700Form 4
    31 July 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 16% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 30 July 202610,000$31.50$315,000Form 4
    30 July 2026Mansfield KeithEVP&COO of b1BankSaleafter a 17% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 30 July 20264,200$32.08$134,736Form 4
    30 July 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 17% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 30 July 202610,000$32.08$320,800Form 4
    29 July 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 19% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 30 July 202610,000$31.88$318,800Form 4
    29 July 2026Johnson Joseph VernonDirectorSaleafter a 19% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 27 July 20262,000$31.15$62,300Form 4
    28 July 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 17% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 28 July 202610,000$31.86$318,600Form 4
    28 July 2026Johnson Joseph VernonDirectorSaleafter a 17% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 27 July 202610,000$31.75$317,500Form 4
    28 July 2026Day Rick D.DirectorPurchaseafter a 17% rise over three months · at its one-year high1,500$31.61$47,415Form 4
    11 June 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 11% rise over three months · 3% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 9 June 20265,000$28.78$143,900Form 4
    10 June 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 10% rise over three months · 4% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 9 June 202615,000$28.89$433,350Form 4
    8 June 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 7% rise over three months · 5% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 9 June 202615,000$28.54$428,100Form 4
    27 May 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 1% fall over three months · 6% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 27 May 202611,595$27.92$323,732Form 4
    22 May 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 4% fall over three months · 7% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 22 May 202610,000$27.99$279,900Form 4
    4 March 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 2% rise over three months · 8% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 5 March 202611,000$27.60$303,600Form 4
    3 March 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 5% rise over three months · 8% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 4 March 20269,800$27.42$268,716Form 4
    2 March 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 5% rise over three months · 8% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 2 March 2026200$27.80$5,560Form 4
    25 February 2026Cummings George W. IiiDirectorSaleafter a 8% rise over three months · 5% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 25 February 202620,000$28.00$560,000Form 4
    10 February 2026McCollister Rolfe H. Jr.DirectorPurchaseafter a 16% rise over three months · at its one-year high120$29.56$3,547Form 4
    10 February 2026Folse Mark P.DirectorSaleafter a 16% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 9 February 20264,854$29.51$143,242Form 4
    9 February 2026Folse Mark P.DirectorSaleafter a 18% rise over three months · at its one-year high · Form 144 notice 9 February 20265,146$29.75$153,094Form 4
    29 January 2026Carter Donald ChadEVP, Correspondent BankingSaleafter a 13% rise over three months · 2% below its one-year high · Form 144 notice 29 January 20263,778$27.27$103,026Form 4
    27 January 2026Day Rick D.DirectorPurchaseafter a 11% rise over three months · 3% below its one-year high1,500$27.55$41,325Form 4
    1 December 2025Robertson GregEVP and CFOSaleafter a 5% rise over three months · 9% below its one-year high1,400$26.41$36,974Form 4
    A filing with several lines appears once per line.
    Read morePay taken in stock by the insider's own choice has the filing's footnote, word for word, in the note under it; for the others, hold the pointer on the type. An award filed at no price shows n/a.