Business First Bancshares, Inc. BFST
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
What this company does
Written from the business description in Business First Bancshares, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Growth
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Profitability
Each USD of equity produced 10 cents of profit this year.
The 13-year record
EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ |
| Operating income $B | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| EBITDA $B | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ |
| Income tax $B | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Net income $B | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 2.79 | 2.26 | 2.59 | 2.32 | 2.53 | 1.64 | 1.74 | 1.22 | 0.61 | 0.70 | 0.59 | 0.72 | 0.87 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 0.57 | 0.56 | 0.50 | 0.48 | 0.46 | 0.40 | 0.38 | 0.30 | 0.23 | 0.15 | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ |
| Payout % | 19 | 23 | 18 | 20 | 18 | 25 | 21 | 23 | 37 | 21 | — | — | — |
| ROE % | 10.4 | 9.0 | 11.6 | 10.7 | 12.4 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 6.4 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 5.3 | 6.7 |
| Shares out B | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | ◌ |
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Company facts, as filed
Reconciled in 13 of the 13 fiscal years we could check. Seven checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2014. Six checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2013.