Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST)

US — Financial Services Sector
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Key Metrics & Ratings

  • symbol BFST
  • Rev/Share 16.3036
  • Book/Share 28.1729
  • PB 0.914
  • Debt/Equity 0.5253
  • CurrentRatio 0.0577
  • ROIC 0.0546

 

  • MktCap 764646250.0
  • FreeCF/Share 2.732
  • PFCF 9.5426
  • PE 10.4779
  • Debt/Assets 0.0558
  • DivYield 0.0217
  • ROE 0.0964

 

  • Rating A-
  • Score 4
  • Recommendation Buy
  • P/E Score 3
  • DCF Score 5
  • P/B Score 4
  • D/E Score 2

Recent Analyst Ratings

Type Ticker Analyst Firm Previous Rating Current Rating Previous Price Target Current Price Target Date
Upgrade BFST Hovde Group Market Perform Outperform $31.5 $33 Jan. 24, 2025
Upgrade BFST Raymond James Market Perform Outperform -- $30 Dec. 19, 2024

News

Business First Bancshares, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call
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Published: July 02, 2025 by: GlobeNewsWire
Sentiment: Neutral

BATON ROUGE, La., July 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST), the parent company of b1BANK, announced today that it is scheduled to release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2025, before market open on Monday, July 28, 2025, at 7:00 a.m. CST. Executive management will host a conference call and webcast to discuss results on the same day (Monday, July 28, 2025) at 9:00 a.m. CST.

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b1BANK Announces Senna Bayasgalan as Chief Marketing Officer
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Published: February 13, 2025 by: GlobeNewsWire
Sentiment: Neutral

BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- b1BANK, announces the appointment of Senna Bayasgalan as chief marketing officer. Bayasgalan will lead brand and marketing technology initiatives to support the banks' growth and deepen client relationships. Bayasgalan has over 16 years of experience in marketing leadership, international brand building, communications and customer acquisition across private capital, technology and media industries.

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About Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST)

  • IPO Date 2018-04-23
  • Website https://www.b1bank.com
  • Industry Banks - Regional
  • CEO David R. Melville III
  • Employees 849
Business First Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for b1BANK that provides various banking products and services. It offers various deposit products and services, including checking, demand, money market, time, and savings accounts; and certificates of deposits, remote deposit capture, and direct deposit services. The company also provides commercial and industrial loans, such as commercial lines of credit, letters of credit, working capital, term, equipment financing, asset acquisition, expansion and development, borrowing base, and other loan products; 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 services 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, online and mobile banking, e-statements, and bank-by-mail services. As of March 01, 2022, it operates approximately 48 full-service banking centers and three loan production offices across Louisiana, and in the Dallas and Houston markets. Business First Bancshares, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.