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First Busey Corp. BUSE

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$719.6M

▲ 55.7% YoY

Net income

$135.3M

▲ 19.0% YoY

Free cash flow

$173.0M

▲ 0.6% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Busey conducts the business of banking and provides related banking services, asset management, brokerage, and fiduciary services through Busey Bank, and provides payment technology solutions through FirsTech. First Busey Corporation is an $18.10 billion financial holding company. Busey Bank has a total of 79 banking centers across 10 states. As of December 31, 2025, Busey and its subsidiaries had a total of 1,914 full-time equivalents. Through its Wealth Management business, Busey Bank provides asset management, investment, brokerage, fiduciary, philanthropic advisory, tax preparation, and farm management services to individuals, businesses, and foundations. FirsTech, a wholly owned subsidiary of Busey Bank, delivers technology-enabled payment processing solutions to business clients across the United States. First Busey Corporation was organized in Nevada in 1980 and is headquartered in Leawood, Kansas. Busey Bank was initially founded in 1868.

Written from the business description in First Busey Corporation'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

USD 719.6M

Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below

Revenue $M Net income $M

FY2025 · Revenue 719.6 · Net income 135.3

300M600M

2009201220152018202120242025

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+16.9%

Net income

+1.8%

+6.2%

+13.2%

+12.5%

Returned to shareholders

+38.3%

+21.7%

+20.5%

+16.8%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

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

19 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 25.9% · Net 18.8%

10%20%30%

200920172025

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 7.0%

-50%

200920172025

Three returns, three denominators.

Return on equity7.0%

Return on assets0.9%

Return on capital employedNot available: we don't have total assets or current liabilities for this period.

Gross margin·

Operating margin25.9%

Net margin18.8%

EBITDAUSD 199.6M

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

Cash & shareholders

USD 160.8M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF 173.0

100M200M-15M-30M

200920172025

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 91.0 · Net buybacks 69.9

100M200MDividendsNet buybacks

200920112013201520172019202120232025

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.

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.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

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.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data

BUSE, 17-year financial record
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
Free cash flow $B	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	−0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0
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	◌	◌	◌	◌	◌	◌	◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 49 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Three checks were skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2010. Three checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures

ActivityState Commercial Banks

Listed onNASDAQ

Incorporated inNevada

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2009

First Busey Corp. BUSE

What this company does

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The 17-year record

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Company facts, as filed

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Profitability

Cash & shareholders