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Financial Services

Business First Bancshares, Inc.(BFST)

Live Price

Offline

$30.81

+2.39% today

1Y Change

+16.71%

Window

Jun 30, 2025 โ†’ Jun 18, 2026

Market Cap
$900.00M
Revenue Growth
+11.8%
EPS Growth
+22.9%
Dividend Yield
2.1%

Coverage: 244 bars ยท Jun 30, 2025 โ†’ Jun 18, 2026

Research Briefing

A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.

Decision context

Research Snapshot

Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) is a Financial Services stock with a market cap of $900.00M. The stock last traded around $30.81 and up 16.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 โ†’ Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +11.8%, EPS growth of +22.9%, a dividend yield of 2.1%. What stands out right now is revenue +11.8%, EPS +22.9%, free cash flow +53.9% with operating margin 22.5% and ROIC 1.0%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 2.1%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 9.8 and price/sales 1.7. Stock Foundry combines BFST price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Financial Services peers on this page.

Benchmark Edge

BFST vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs

Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.

Shared 1Y chart + MAX history table

Relative Read

BFST trails SPY

BFST is 4.15 pts behind over the shared 1Y window.

BFST had 4.80 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.

BFST beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.

BFST

+16.71%

Normalized return

SPY

+20.86%

S&P 500

Excess Return

-4.15 pts

Relative to SPY

BFST Max Drawdown

-13.94%

Trailing 1Y

SPY Max Drawdown

-9.13%

Trailing 1Y

BFSTSPY

Calendar-Year Returns

Uses the longest available daily history for BFST and SPY.

YearBFSTSPYExcessLeader
2026+11.17%+6.71%+4.46 ptsBFST
2025+6.49%+11.19%-4.70 ptsSPY

Earnings Reports

๐Ÿ“… Last reportedApr 27, 2026
PeriodB/MEPSEPS ฮ”RevenueRev ฮ”Report
โ€”
Jan 22, 26
โœ“
0.79
Est 0.72
+9.7%
83.1M
Est 81.4M
+2.1%
Jan 22
โ€”
Oct 23, 25
โœ“
0.72
Est 0.69
+4.3%
80.8M
Est 81.4M
-0.7%
Oct 23
โ€”
Jul 28, 25
โœ“
0.66
Est 0.65
+1.5%
78.3M
Est 81.2M
-3.5%
Jul 28
โ€”
Apr 24, 25
โœ“
0.65
Est 0.61
+6.6%
77.8M
Est 77.5M
+0.4%
Apr 24
โ€”
Jan 23, 25
โœ“
0.66
Est 0.49
+34.7%
77.4M
Est 75.6M
+2.4%
Jan 23
โ€”
Oct 24, 24
โœ“
0.68
Est 0.57
+19.3%
66.6M
Est 65.3M
+1.9%
Oct 24
โ€”
Jul 25, 24
โœ“
0.64
Est 0.51
+25.5%
65.8M
Est 63.0M
+4.5%
Jul 25
โ€”
Apr 25, 24
โœ—
0.50
Est 0.57
-12.3%
60.6M
Est 62.2M
-2.6%
Apr 25
โ€”
Jan 23, 24
โœ“
0.66
Est 0.60
+10.0%
61.2M
Est 62.5M
-2.0%
Jan 23
โ€”
Oct 26, 23
โœ“
0.71
Est 0.61
+16.4%
63.7M
Est 62.7M
+1.6%
Oct 26
โ€”
Jul 27, 23
โœ“
0.70
Est 0.52
+34.6%
61.5M
Est 59.6M
+3.2%
Jul 27
โ€”
Apr 27, 23
โœ“
0.55
Est 0.52
+5.8%
61.0M
Est 60.7M
+0.4%
Apr 27
โ€”
Jan 25, 23
โœ“
0.66
Est 0.60
+10.0%
63.7M
Est 61.7M
+3.4%
Jan 25
โ€”
Oct 26, 22
โœ“
0.72
Est 0.70
+2.9%
61.0M
Est 59.8M
+2.1%
Oct 26
โ€”
Jul 26, 22
โœ“
0.64
Est 0.57
+12.3%
56.5M
Est 54.2M
+4.3%
Jul 26
โ€”
Apr 26, 22
โœ—
0.49
Est 0.51
-3.9%
46.4M
Est 47.2M
-1.8%
Apr 26
โ€”
Jan 25, 22
โœ“
0.59
Est 0.51
+15.7%
48.7M
Est 46.9M
+3.8%
Jan 25
โ€”
Oct 21, 21
โœ“
0.50
Est 0.48
+4.2%
43.0M
Est 42.9M
+0.3%
Oct 21
โ€”
Jul 26, 21
โœ“
0.90
Est 0.54
+66.7%
53.5M
Est 44.3M
+20.7%
Jul 26
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