Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST)

About Business First Bancshares, Inc.

Business First Bancshares, Inc. is a financial holding company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the parent company of b1BANK. The company offers a full range of banking products and services primarily to small-to-midsized businesses and their owners and employees in Louisiana, the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, and Houston. It focuses on commercial and industrial lending, treasury and cash management, and community banking through a network of banking centers and loan production offices.

Snapshot

Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended December 31, 2025). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.

Peer comparison

Where Business First Bancshares’s fundamentals sit among the 76 banks. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).

1 reported insider purchase (code P) totaling $47,415 in the last 90 days, against 19 sales totaling $4.4M. For context, about 15% of companies in the universe saw any reported insider purchase (code P) in the same window. Browse insider activity →

Percentiles describe where a figure sits among industry peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.

Institutional ownership

Held by 5 quant / multi-strat books among the superinvestors we track; no conviction manager currently reports a position.

From quarterly Form 13F filings, which can be up to 45 days delayed. Long US-listed positions only: excludes short positions, options, cash, bonds, and non-US holdings, so this is not a manager’s complete portfolio. Counts are of the investors we track, not all institutions. Not investment advice.

Recent insider activity

Non-derivative buys and sells (codes P/S) reported by officers, directors and 10% owners on SEC Form 4.

Reported non-derivative purchases and sales (codes P/S) — which may be open-market or private; excludes option exercises, grants, and shares withheld for taxes. Dates shown are the trade date; a Form 4 can be filed days to years later. A sale can be routine (e.g. a pre-set 10b5-1 plan), so read individual transactions in context. From SEC Form 4. Not investment advice.

Short interest

Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.

Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.

Bank fundamentals

Regulatory detail for b1BANK (Baton Rouge, LA), the insured-bank subsidiary, from its FDIC Call Report as of Q1 2026. This is what actually moves bank stocks: deposit franchise, capital, and credit quality that a standard income statement can’t show.

Source: FDIC BankFind (Call Report). Bank-subsidiary figures, filed quarterly ~30 days after quarter-end.

Quarterly trend (as reported)

Latest 8 reported quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR.

Company facts

Selected SEC filings

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