BFST

Business First Bancshares Inc

BFST.US b1bank.com + Research + Basket
CIK 0001624322
Employees 821
Phone 225 248 7600
Fiscal year end December
IPO Apr 09, 2018
Address 500 Laurel Street, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, 70801
32.98
+0.72 (+2.23%)
USD · NASDAQ
52-week range
23.82
33.60
Trading at 94% of the 52-week range
Market Cap
1.07B
P/E Ratio
11.82
Forward P/E
9.68
Book Value
28.77
Div. Yield
1.86%
% Institutions
59.76%
% Insiders
4.60%

1 Year

+36.8%

3 Year

+70.5%

10 Year

+56.0%
Description

Business First Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for b1BANK that provides various banking products and services in Louisiana and Texas. It offers various deposit products and services, including checking and savings, time, and money market accounts; and certificates of deposits, remote deposit capture, and direct deposit services. The company also provides commercial and industrial loans, such as working capital, term, equipment financing, asset acquisition, expansion and development, borrowing base, and other loan products, as well as commercial lines of credit, accounts receivable factoring, agricultural financing, and letters of credit; construction and development loans; commercial real estate loans; residential real estate loans comprising first and second lien 1-4 family mortgage loans, and home equity lines of credit; and consumer loans, including secured and unsecured installment, and term loans. In addition, it offers wealth management products, including mutual funds, annuities, individual retirement accounts, and other financial products, as well as other fiduciary and private banking products and services. Further, the company provides a range of other financial services comprising debit and credit cards, treasury and cash management, merchant, automated clearing house, lock-box, receivables factoring, correspondent banking, and other treasury services, as well as employee and payroll benefits solutions; and drive-through banking facilities, automated teller machines, night depository, personalized checks, electronic funds transfer, domestic and foreign wire transfer, traveler's checks, vault, loan and deposit sweep accounts, interest-rate swaps, small business administration products, online and mobile banking, e-statements, and bank-by-mail services. Business First Bancshares, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Directors & Officers

Name Title Year Born
Mr. David R. Melville III Chairman, President & CEO 1975
Mr. Gregory Robertson Executive VP, CFO & Treasurer 1972
Mr. Keith Mansfield Executive VP & COO 1977
Mr. Norman Jerome Vascocu Jr. President of b1BANK 1974
Ms. Heather Gatte Roemer Executive VP & Chief Administrative Officer 1982
Ms. Saundra Strong Executive VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary 1979
Ms. Senna Bayasgalan Chief Marketing Officer NA
Ms. Kathryn Manning Executive VP & Chief Risk Officer 1989
Mr. Warren McDonald Executive VP & Chief Credit Officer 1967
Donald Chad Carter Executive VP & Correspondent Banking 1983

Insider Trading

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Date Insider Name Title Transaction Type Shares Price Value SEC
Feb 10, 2026 Mark P Folse N/A Sale 4.85K $29.51 $143.24K SEC
Feb 09, 2026 Mark P Folse N/A Sale 5.15K $29.75 $153.09K SEC
Jan 29, 2026 Donald Chad Carter N/A Sale 3.78K $27.27 $103.03K SEC
Jan 27, 2026 Rick D Day N/A Purchase 1.50K $27.55 $41.33K SEC
Dec 01, 2025 Greg Robertson N/A Sale 1.40K $26.41 $36.97K SEC
Oct 28, 2025 Rick D Day N/A Purchase 1.60K $24.21 $38.74K SEC
Jul 31, 2025 John P Ducrest N/A Purchase 2.23K $23.62 $52.55K SEC
Jun 06, 2025 Rolfe H Jr. Mccollister N/A Purchase 680.00 $23.40 $15.91K SEC
May 29, 2025 Greg Robertson N/A Sale 1.09K $23.72 $25.76K SEC

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Institutional Holders

Holder Name Shares Date Reported % Out Value % Change
BlackRock Inc 2.73M Jun 30, 2026 8.45% $0.00 11.69%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC 1.40M Jun 30, 2026 4.33% $0.00 -2.20%
Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc. 1.31M Jun 30, 2026 4.05% $0.01 12.46%
Jupiter Topco LLC 1.09M Jun 30, 2026 3.37% $0.01 0.00%
State Street Corp 1.05M Jun 30, 2026 3.23% $0.00 58.10%
American Century Companies Inc 1.03M Jun 30, 2026 3.17% $0.01 15.22%
Royce & Associates, LP 931.81K Jun 30, 2026 2.88% $0.23 11.45%
Geode Capital Management, LLC 863.42K Jun 30, 2026 2.67% $0.00 6.59%
Bank of New York Mellon Corp 450.79K Jun 30, 2026 1.39% $0.00 2.02%
Manufacturers Life Insurance Co 432.03K Jun 30, 2026 1.34% $0.01 -0.67%
JPMorgan Chase & Co 405.62K Jun 30, 2026 1.25% $0.00 72.69%
T. Rowe Price Investment Management,Inc. 364.39K Jun 30, 2026 1.13% $0.01 0.00%
Northern Trust Corp 312.00K Jun 30, 2026 0.96% $0.00 5.37%
Curi Capital, LLC 293.90K Jun 30, 2026 0.91% $0.14 17.56%
Mendon Capital Advisors Corp 293.89K Jun 30, 2026 0.91% $3.19 17.56%
Ranger Investment Management LP 284.50K Jun 30, 2026 0.88% $0.55 -11.45%
Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC 278.15K Jun 30, 2026 0.86% $0.00 13.39%
Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc 271.90K Jun 30, 2026 0.84% $0.00 2.06%
Banc Funds Co LLC 234.26K Jun 30, 2026 0.72% $1.19 0.00%
Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co 216.47K Jun 30, 2026 0.67% $0.00 3.46%

Fund Holdings

Rank Holder Name Shares Held % of Shares Change Date Reported
1 Vanguard MStar Total Stk Mkt Idx Invest 989.96K 3.06% ▲ 0.00% Sep 30, 2026
2 Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 974.84K 3.01% ▲ 0.05% Oct 29, 2026
3 iShares Russell 2000 ETF 833.99K 2.58% ▼ 0.40% Oct 29, 2026
4 Janus Henderson Small Cap Value L 823.66K 2.55% ▲ 0.00% Aug 31, 2026
5 Fidelity Small Cap Index 346.40K 1.07% ▲ 0.99% Jul 31, 2026
6 State Street® SPDR® S&PRgnllBkgETF 318.55K 0.98% ▼ 2.49% Oct 29, 2026
7 iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 304.88K 0.94% ▼ 0.31% Oct 28, 2026
8 Royce Small-Cap Opportunity Invmt 284.70K 0.88% ▼ 0.73% Sep 30, 2026
9 RMB Mendon Financial Services A 275.00K 0.85% ▲ 0.00% Aug 31, 2026
10 DFA US Small Cap Value I 263.85K 0.82% ▲ 11.52% Aug 31, 2026

Financial Highlights

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Market Cap: $1.07B
P/E Ratio: $11.82
Book Value: $28.77
Dividend/Share: $0.60
Dividend Yield: 1.86%
Earnings/Share: $2.79
Profit Margin: 27.24%
Operating Margin: 35.26%
ROA (TTM): 1.12%
ROE (TTM): 10.06%
Revenue (TTM): $347.47M
Revenue/Share (TTM): $10.93
Earnings Growth (YOY): -2.50%
Revenue Growth (YOY): 17.30%

Valuation Metrics

Enterprise Value: $941.73M
Trailing P/E: 11.82
Forward P/E: 9.68

Shares Statistics

Shares Outstanding: 32.35M
Shares Float: 30.72M
% Insiders: 4.60%
% Institutions: 59.76%
Shares Short: 1.18M
Shares Short (Prior Month): 1.24M
Short Ratio: 5.55
Short % Float: 3.84%

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Step Type
Value
Revenue
adjust
$511.93M
Cost of Goods Sold
adjust
$-200.07M
Gross Profit
subtotal
$311.86M
SG&A
adjust
$-127.25M
Other Operating Expense
adjust
$-71.20M
Operating Income
subtotal
$113.41M
Other / Non-Operating Items
adjust
$-25.55M
Net Income
subtotal
$87.86M

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