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BFST
Business First Bancshares, Inc.
NASDAQ· Financial Services· Banks - Regional· CUSIP 12326C105
$31.31+0.58%Price as of Oct 17, 12:04 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Baton Rouge, United States and has 821 employees. The company is worth $1.02B and trades at 11.1x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $324.71M in fiscal 2025, up 19.6% from the year before. Net income was $87.86M. The share price is 3.7% below its 52-week high of $32.53. It pays a dividend yielding 1.92%, and has raised its annual dividend for 6 years in a row in our records. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $5.76M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $1.02B
- P/E
- 11.1x
- Forward P/E
- 9.4x
- P/B
- 1.1x
- Dividend yield
- 1.92%
- Payout
- 21.35%
- EPS
- $2.81
- ROE
- 10.01%
- Profit margin
- 27.83%
- Revenue growth
- +12.70%
- Beta
- 0.78
- 52-week high
- $32.53
- 52-week low
- $22.81
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▲ +13.9% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,314.77▲ +31.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 8 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $26.14 | $25.70 | $24.65 | $22.14 | $28.31 | $20.36 | $24.93 | $24.23 | |
| P/E | 11.3x | 9.4x | 11.4x | 9.5x | 9.5x | 11.2x | 12.4x | 14.3x | 19.9x |
| P/S | 2.8x | 2.6x | 2.8x | 2.5x | 2.4x | 3.0x | 2.8x |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$42.66
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$36.89
Earnings growing 11.2% a year plus a 1.9% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$36.97
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$31.70
Median P/E of 11.3 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$72.18
Cash flow growing 11.2% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividends
$40.42
Dividend growing 6.4% a year against a 7.9% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HBNCHorizon Bancorp Inc | $19.99 | — | 1.4x | 3.20% | -18.98% | $1.03B |
| MCBSMetroCity Bankshares, Inc. | $35.13 | 12.2x | 1.8x | 3.07% | 15.91% | $1.01B |
| CFFNCapitol Federal Financial, Inc. | $8.33 | 12.8x | 1.0x | 4.08% | 8.01% | $1.03B |
| EGBNEagle Bancorp Inc |
About the company
- 821
- Baton Rouge, United States