2-Apr-2026
Business First Bancshares Completes Subordinated Notes Private Placement
TipRanks (Thu, 2-Apr 5:58 PM ET)
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Completes $85.0 Million Private Placement of Subordinated Notes
Globe Newswire (Thu, 2-Apr 4:30 PM ET)
b1BANK Names Ben Marmande Director of Corporate Banking
Globe Newswire (Thu, 2-Apr 2:30 PM ET)
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Schedules Q1 2026 Earnings Release and Conference Call for April 27
Globe Newswire (Wed, 1-Apr 5:30 PM ET)
b1BANK partners with Covecta to deploy agentic AI
Globe Newswire (Tue, 17-Feb 6:10 PM ET)
Business First Bancshares, Inc., Announces Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2025 and Q4 2025
Globe Newswire (Thu, 22-Jan 4:09 PM ET)
Globe Newswire (Tue, 6-Jan 5:45 PM ET)
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Progressive Bank
Globe Newswire (Mon, 5-Jan 9:00 AM ET)
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 the majority of its revenues from interest income on loans, customer service and loan fees, and interest income from securities.
Business First Bancshares trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol BFST.
As of April 2, 2026, BFST stock price climbed to $27.53 with 145,787 million shares trading.
BFST has a beta of 0.74, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BFST has a correlation of 0.21 to the broad based SPY ETF.
BFST has a market cap of $903.33 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
Last quarter Business First Bancshares reported $95 million in Revenue and $.79 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $14 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.08.
In the last 3 years, BFST traded as high as $30.32 and as low as $13.05.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that BFST belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, AVUV, IWM, VXF, IWN.
BFST has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +15.2%, while SPY returned +18.2%. 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 +5.9% and +6.3%, while SPY returned -3.6% and -0.6%, respectively. This indicates BFST has been having a stronger performance recently.
BFST support price is $26.87 and resistance is $27.91 (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.