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First Busey Corporation BUSE

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported
SEC FILINGS ONLY
Revenue · FY2025
$719.6M
▲ 55.7% vs FY2024
EPS · FY25
$1.47
Dividend / sh · FY25
$1.00
Payout · FY25
67%
ROE · FY25
7.0%
Net margin · FY25
18.8%
Dividend coverage
1.5×
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Result
USD 719.6M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue Net income
0.20.40.60.80.70.12009201220152018202120242025
0.20.40.60.80.70.12016201920222025

19 cents of every revenue dollar became profit this year.

Per share
USD 1.47
Diluted EPS, FY2025
EPS Dividend
0.81.62.41.001.472009201220152018202120242025
0.81.62.41.001.472016201920222025

Earnings covered the dividend 1.5 times — the rest stayed in the company.

Profitability
7.0%
Return on equity, FY2025
ROE
48127.0%2009201220152018202120242025
48127.0%2016201920222025
Operating margin25.9%
Net margin18.8%
Return on assets0.9%

Each USD of equity produced 7 cents of profit this year.

Returned to shareholders
USD 160.8M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Dividends paidUSD 91.0M
Net buybacksUSD 69.9M
Share of profit118.9%
Consecutive raises—

USD 91.0M in dividends and USD 69.9M in buybacks — 119% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Growth
—
revenue, compounded over five years
CAGR
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue
+16.9%
Net income
+1.8%
+6.2%
+13.2%
+12.5%
Returned to shareholders
+38.3%
+21.7%
+20.5%
+16.8%

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where the series crosses a loss.

Share base
0.09B
Shares outstanding, FY2025
0.040.092009201220152018202120242025
0.040.092016201920222025
Change, 5 years+3.8%
Change, 10 years—

The share count grew 4% in five years — the same company, cut into more, smaller slices.

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Balance sheet
USD 18.1B
total assets, end of FY2025
Total assetsUSD 18.1B
EquityUSD 2.5B
CashUSD 294.1M
Gross debtUSD 113.8M
Net debtUSD -180.2M
DepositsUSD 14.9B

The company holds more cash than debt.

History
17 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
2012
2011
2010
2009
Revenue $B
0.7
0.5
0.4
0.5
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
Operating income $B
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
·
·
·
·
·
·
EBITDA $B
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
·
·
·
·
·
·
Income tax $B
0.1
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
0.0
0.0
−0.1
Net income $B
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
−0.3
EPS, diluted $
1.47
1.98
2.18
2.29
2.20
1.83
1.87
2.01
1.45
1.40
1.32
1.10
0.86
0.22
0.29
0.27
−7.85
Dividend / sh $
1.00
0.96
0.96
0.92
0.92
0.88
0.84
0.80
0.72
0.68
0.62
0.57
0.36
0.24
0.16
0.16
0.40
Payout %
67
48
43
40
41
48
44
39
49
46
48
53
49
109
61
67
−6
ROE %
7.0
8.6
10.1
10.4
9.5
8.1
9.3
10.3
8.2
10.3
9.7
7.7
7.0
5.5
7.2
6.2
−98.5
Shares out B
0.09
0.06
0.06
0.06
0.06
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.04
·
·
·
·
·
·
·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks figures not disclosed in the filing for that year.

How we verifyAUDITED
32 of 32
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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