First Busey Corp
First Busey Corp (BUSE) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Leawood, United States and has 1,833 employees. The company is worth $2.53B and trades at 12.7x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $719.58M in fiscal 2025, up 55.7% from the year before. Net income was $135.26M. The share price is 3.4% below its 52-week high of $31.70. It pays a dividend yielding 3.40%. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $12.44M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $41.96K of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +14.5% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,402.45▲ +40.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $23.79 | $23.57 | $24.82 | $24.72 | $27.12 | $21.55 | $27.50 | $24.54 | $29.94 | $30.78 | $20.63 | $19.53 | $17.40 | $13.95 | $15.00 | $14.10 | $11.67 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 3.4% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 15.9 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividend growing 0.8% a year against a 7.7% required return, from the stock’s beta.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LCLNLincoln International, Inc. | $24.04 | — | 6.2x | 0.29% | — | $2.53B |
| BBTBeacon Financial Corp | $29.95 | 8.1x | 1.0x | 4.31% | 8.42% | $2.51B |
| FGF&G Annuities & Life, Inc. | $19.57 | 6.5x | 0.6x | 5.11% | 9.17% | $2.56B |
| FRMEFirst Merchants Corp | $40.83 |
| 15.9x |
| 16.2x |
| 11.9x |
| 11.4x |
| 10.8x |
| 12.3x |
| 11.8x |
| 14.7x |
| 12.2x |
| 20.6x |
| 22.0x |
| 15.6x |
| 17.8x |
| 20.2x |
| 21.1x |
| 17.2x |
| 17.4x |
| — |
| P/S | 3.1x | 2.9x | 2.9x | 3.1x | 3.0x | — | — | 3.7x | 4.1x | 5.1x | 5.1x | 3.4x | 3.5x | 3.1x | 2.4x | 2.6x | 1.7x | — |
| P/B | 1.2x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 1.1x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 0.9x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.6x | 2.0x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.2x | 1.0x | 1.1x | 0.7x | — |
| EPS | $1.47 | $1.98 | $2.18 | $2.29 | $2.20 | $1.83 | $1.87 | $2.01 | $1.45 | $1.40 | $1.32 | $1.10 | $0.86 | $0.66 | $0.87 | $0.81 | -$23.55 |
| Dividend yield | 3.39% | 4.20% | 4.07% | 3.87% | 3.72% | 3.39% | 4.08% | 3.05% | 3.26% | 2.40% | 2.21% | 3.01% | 2.92% | 2.07% | 5.16% | 3.20% | 3.40% | 10.28% |
| Payout | 48.29% | 68.03% | 48.48% | 44.04% | 40.17% | 41.82% | 48.09% | 44.92% | 39.80% | 49.66% | 48.57% | 46.97% | 51.82% | 41.86% | 109.09% | 55.17% | 59.26% | — |
| Profit margin | 21.62% | 18.80% | 24.59% | 27.74% | 28.50% | — | — | 25.51% | 29.85% | 21.79% | 21.62% | 22.09% | 20.42% | 17.66% | 13.23% | 17.63% | 12.91% | -179.09% |
| ROE | 7.90% | 5.48% | 8.22% | 9.64% | 11.20% | 9.36% | 7.90% | 8.44% | 9.94% | 6.71% | 8.36% | 10.45% | 7.56% | 6.92% | 5.47% | 7.30% | 5.52% | -98.47% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-14.0% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 12.8x |
| 1.0x |
| 3.62% |
| 7.37% |
| $2.56B |
| BANRBanner Corp | $70.10 | 11.2x | 1.2x | 2.91% | 10.78% | $2.57B |
| HCIHCI Group, Inc. | $206.68 | 8.8x | 2.4x | 0.77% | 34.98% | $2.57B |