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Business First Bancshares, Inc. BFST
13 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported
SEC FILINGS ONLY5 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
Revenue · FY2025
$10.7M
▲ 1.2% vs FY2024
Dividend streak
5 yrs
Raised every year since 2021
EPS · FY25
$2.79
Dividend / sh · FY25
$0.57
Payout · FY25
19%
ROE · FY25
10.4%
Net margin · FY25
820.8%
Dividend coverage
4.9×
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Result
USD 10.7M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 13-year series below
Revenue
Net income
821 cents of every revenue dollar became profit this year.
Per share
USD 2.79
Diluted EPS, FY2025
EPS
Dividend
Earnings covered the dividend 4.9 times — the rest stayed in the company.
Profitability
10.4%
Return on equity, FY2025
ROE
Operating margin1030.5%
Net margin820.8%
Return on assets1.1%
Each USD of equity produced 10 cents of profit this year.
Returned to shareholders
USD 20.6M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Dividends paidUSD 16.8M
Net buybacksUSD 3.7M
Share of profit23.4%
Consecutive raises5 years
USD 16.8M in dividends and USD 3.7M in buybacks — 23% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.
Growth
+14.8% a year
revenue, compounded over five years
CAGR
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue
+9.0%
+14.8%
Net income
+17.4%
+24.0%
+35.9%
EPS, diluted
+6.3%
+11.2%
Dividend / share
+5.9%
+7.3%
Returned to shareholders
+23.9%
+15.6%
+22.1%
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where the series crosses a loss.
Share base
0.03B
Shares outstanding, FY2025
Change, 5 years+43.1%
Change, 10 years—
The share count grew 43% in five years — the same company, cut into more, smaller slices.
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Balance sheet
USD 8.2B
total assets, end of FY2025
Total assetsUSD 8.2B
EquityUSD 896.9M
CashUSD 411.2M
DepositsUSD 6.7B
Equity funds 11% of total assets.
History
13 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
Metric
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
Revenue $B
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
·
·
·
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
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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Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks figures not disclosed in the filing for that year.
How we verifyAUDITED
25 of 25
checks passed before publication
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidity
Every figure was compared against the original statement: 0 failures and 0 presentation gaps.
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