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Companies/Business First Bancshares, Inc.
Company profile

Business First Bancshares, Inc.

NASDAQ: BFST · Financial Services · Banks - Regional
PublicHQ Baton Rouge, LA · East Baton RougeCIK 0001624322Reports USD
#636 of 1,011 Financial Services companies by revenue31st-percentile growth
EA Score
59C
FH 56DQ 65GM 52SS 63
v0.1 · 65/100 weight · provisional
↑ filing timeliness, growth stability · ↓ revenue growth (YoY), listing tenure
Methodology →
Revenue TTM
$520.2M
Rev growth YoY (TTM)
+8.8%
Net income (FY)
$87.9M
Employees
849
Market cap
$1.0B
OverviewFinancialsSegmentsFilingsESGPeople & Places

Financials — latest annual

SEC EDGAR · USD-normalized
ConceptUSDNativeFY
Revenue$10.7M$10.7M2025
Net income$87.9M$87.9M2025
Total assets$8.2B$8.2B2025
Liabilities$7.3B$7.3B2025
Equity$896.9M$896.9M2025

Revenue trend

FY2018 – FY2025 · USD
$2.8M
FY18
$4.0M
FY19
$5.4M
FY20
$6.8M
FY21
$8.3M
FY22
$9.7M
FY23
$10.6M
FY24
$10.7M
FY25

Revenue by segment

No segmentation disclosed for this filer. n/a

The read

Business First Bancshares, Inc. booked $10.7M in FY2025 revenue, growing 1.2% year over year — slower than 69% of Financial Services companies we track, at a 820.8% net margin.

Peers · Financial Services
FS Credit Opportunities Corp.——Amerant Bancorp Inc.——W.T.B. Financial Corporation57CFirst National Bank Alaska57C
Neighbors
East Baton Rouge →
Lamar Advertising Company$2.3B58CInvestar Holding Corporation——Vartech Systems Inc.——Adhera Therapeutics Inc$252.0k——
Key facts
CEODavid R. Melville
SectorFinancial Services
IndustryBanks - Regional
HeadquartersBaton Rouge, LA
ExchangeNASDAQ: BFST
Employees849
IPO date2018-04-23
Latest filings
8-K2026-05-2710-Q2026-05-018-K2026-04-27DEF 14A2026-04-088-K2026-04-0210-K2026-02-268-K2026-02-248-K2026-01-22
Financials: SEC EDGAR (XBRL), USD-normalized per IAS 21 · TTM/quarterly + segments: FMP from filed disclosures · Filings: EDGAR submissions. County headcount and EA Score are in progress — see docs/DATA_GAPS.md.
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