BUSE Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (First Busey | NASDAQ:BUSE)

First Busey Corporation is a financial holding company whose subsidiaries provide retail and commercial banking services, remittance processing, and offer financial products and services with banking centers in Illinois, Missouri, Florida, and Indiana. The company's operations are managed through three operating segments consisting of Banking, FirsTech, and Wealth Management. The banking segment generates a vast majority of its revenue.

First Busey trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol BUSE.

As of May 29, 2026, BUSE stock price climbed to $27.43 with 160,855 million shares trading.

BUSE has a beta of 0.62, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BUSE has a correlation of 0.11 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BUSE has a market cap of $2.32 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter First Busey reported $196 million in Revenue and $.67 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-914,264 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.09.

In the last 3 years, BUSE traded as high as $28.97 and as low as $17.51.

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

BUSE has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +29.0%, while the SPY ETF gained +30.0%. In the last 3 month period, BUSE fell short of the market, returning +9.2%, while SPY returned +10.6%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks BUSE has outperformed the stock market by returning +4.9%, while SPY returned +1.1%.

BUSE support price is $26.89 and resistance is $27.61 (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 BUSE shares will trade within this expected range on the day.