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Analyst Ratings
4 analystsRevenue
$127.52M+945.82%Analyst Estimates
Consensus estimates, not results. Via Financial Modeling Prep.
Company Profile
- CEO
- David R. Melville
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Banks - Regional
- Employees
- 832
- Beta
- 0.78
- Country
- US
- Piotroski score
- 6 / 9 (Middling)
- Altman Z-score
- 1.30
Financials
Revenue
$127.52M+945.8%Net Income
$24.55M+1552.2%EBITDA
$0.00-100.0%Free Cash Flow
—EPS (diluted)
$0.00-100.0%Shares Outstanding (diluted)
0.00-100.0%Operating Expenses
$0.00Cash & Debt
$1.48BReturn of Capital
$0.00Dividend per Share
$0.15Quote
Valuation & Ratios
Returns & Efficiency
Revenue & Net Income (Annual)
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Net Income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $511.93M | $87.86M | $2.79 |
| 2024 | $457.75M | $65.11M | $2.27 |
| 2023 | $385.62M | $71.04M | $2.62 |
| 2022 | $264.08M | $54.26M | $2.34 |
| 2021 | $203.11M | $52.14M | $2.54 |
| 2020 | $168.78M | $29.99M | $1.65 |
| 2019 | $112.62M | $23.77M | $1.79 |
| 2018 | $83.97M | $14.09M | $1.27 |
| 2017 | $57.22M | $4.85M | $0.70 |
| 2016 | $48.84M | $5.11M | $0.74 |
| 2015 | $41.80M | $4.10M | $0.58 |
| 2014 | $24.55M | $4.03M | $0.72 |
| 2013 | $25.70M | $4.26M | $0.77 |
| 2012 | $22.84M | $3.77M | $0.68 |
Valuation
Project earnings forward and see what return today's price implies.
Seeded from BFST's reported EPS growth of 11.5% a year over 13 years.
- EPS in 5 years
- $5.13
- Implied price
- $46.13
- Return from $31.88
- 7.7% a year
To earn 15.0% a year on these assumptions you'd need to buy at $22.93 — -28.1% below today's price.
How sensitive is that answer?
Annual return across nearby assumptions. If the result is only attractive in one corner, that is the finding.
| growth \ P/E | 5 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5% | -12.9% | -6.8% | -2.0% | 2.0% | 5.5% |
| 6.5% | -8.6% | -2.2% | 2.8% | 7.1% | 10.7% |
| 11.5% | -4.3% | 2.4% | 7.7% | 12.1% | 15.9% |
| 16.5% | 0.0% | 7.0% | 12.5% | 17.1% | 21.1% |
| 21.5% | 4.3% | 11.6% | 17.3% | 22.1% | 26.3% |
This is arithmetic on assumptions you chose, not a forecast or a recommendation. It ignores dividends, buybacks, share issuance and debt, and it assumes a company still earning money in 5 years. Change any input and the answer changes a lot — that sensitivity is the honest result, not a flaw in the model.
Signal Score (90d)
80-20.00%Social Signal Score
Mentions (3)
- Newsglobenewswire.com·6h ago·Negative
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Announces Financial Results for Q3 2026 BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFST) (Business First), parent company of b1BANK, today announced its unaudited results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Business First reported net income available to common shareholders of $23.2 million or $0.71 per diluted common share, increases of $0.4 million and $0.01, respectively, compared to the linked quarter. On…
View source ↗ - Newszacks.com·7d ago·Neutral
Business First (BFST) Earnings Expected to Grow: What to Know Ahead of Next Week's Release Business First (BFST) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
View source ↗ - Newsglobenewswire.com·24d ago·Neutral
… Inc. Schedules Q3 2026 Earnings Release and Conference Call for Oct. 26 BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST), the parent company of b1BANK, announced that it will release its financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2026, before market open on Mon., Oct. 26, 2026. Executive management will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the results the same day (Mon., Oct. 26, 2026) at 9:00 a.m. CDT.
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Earnings
Thu, Jan 28(in 3 months)
Consensus estimate $0.81 per share
Typical surprise +5.8% (median, so one quarter with a near-zero estimate can't distort it)
- Mon, Oct 26$0.79 vs $0.74beat
- Thu, Jul 23$0.71 vs $0.70beat
- Mon, Apr 27$0.73 vs $0.69beat
- Thu, Jan 22$0.79 vs $0.72beat
- Thu, Oct 23$0.72 vs $0.69beat
- Mon, Jul 28$0.66 vs $0.65beat
Estimates and results for BFST via Financial Modeling Prep. Beating consensus says the company cleared the bar analysts set, not that the business grew.
Insider trading
Open-market buys and sells by BFST officers and directors.
- Bought
- $47k
- Sold
- $5.6m
1 trade
24 trades
- Cummings George W. Iiisold
- Cummings George W. Iiisold
- Cummings George W. Iiisold
- Cummings George W. Iiisold
- Carter Donald Chadsold
- Hall William G.sold
- Hall William G.sold
- Strong Saundrasold
75 further Form 4 entries are share awards, option exercises or shares withheld for tax. Those are compensation, not trades, so they are excluded above. Buying is the stronger signal: an insider spends their own money for one reason. Selling has many innocent explanations — tax, diversifying, a house — so it says far less than it appears to. Via SEC filings.
Congress trades
No disclosed congressional trades in BFST.
Self-reported filings, amounts as brackets. Via Senate/House disclosures.