BFST Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Business First Bancshares | NASDAQ:BFST)

Business First Bancshares Inc is a bank holding company. The company's services include personal and commercial banking, treasury management, and wealth solutions. It provides a range of financial services to small-to-midsized businesses and professionals. The company generates majority of its revenues from interest income on loans, customer service and loan fees, and interest income from securities.

What symbol and exchange does Business First Bancshares shares trade?

Business First Bancshares trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol BFST.

What is Business First Bancshares stock price doing today?

As of January 16, 2026, BFST stock price declined to $27.10 with 79,017 million shares trading.

What is Business First Bancshares's Beta?

BFST has a beta of 0.86, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BFST has a correlation of 0.28 to the broad based SPY ETF.

How much is Business First Bancshares worth?

BFST has a market cap of $889.22 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

How much money does Business First Bancshares make?

Last quarter Business First Bancshares reported $81 million in Revenue and $.72 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $860,002 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.05.

What is the highest and lowest price Business First Bancshares traded in the last 3 year period?

In the last 3 years, BFST traded as high as $30.30 and as low as $13.05.

What are the top ETFs holding Business First Bancshares?

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BFST belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, AVUV, VXF, IWN.

Is Business First Bancshares (BFST) a good investment?

BFST has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +10.7%, while SPY returned +18.1%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in BFST shares. However, BFST has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +19.9% and +4.7%, while SPY returned +5.0% and +1.2%, respectively. This indicates BFST has been having a stronger performance recently.

What are the support and resistance levels for Business First Bancshares (BFST)?

BFST support price is $26.87 and resistance is $27.77 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BFST shares will trade within this expected range on the day.