BFST
Business First Bancshares, Inc.
NasdaqGS Financial Services United States
31,36 $US
-0.67% today
+21.17% YTD · +34.07% 1Y
2
Insider transactions
SEC Form 4 · AMF · BaFin — rolling 90 days
28
Hedge funds tracked
Latest available SEC 13F filings
83
/ 100
VERY STRONG

Analysis Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) — Kairos Score 83/100

Composite score aggregating 8 smart money dimensions: insiders (SEC/AMF/BaFin), hedge funds, politicians & gurus, price momentum, valuation, analyst consensus, financial health, earnings momentum. The higher the score, the more favorable the institutional signals consensus.

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About Business First Bancshares, Inc.

Business First Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for b1BANK that provides various banking products and services in Louisiana and Texas. It offers various deposit products and services, including checking and savings, time, and money market accounts; and certificates of deposits, remote deposit capture, and direct deposit services. The company also provides commercial and industrial loans, such as working capital, term, equipment financing, asset acquisition, expansion and development, borrowing base, and other loan products, as well as commercial lines of credit, accounts receivable factoring, agricultural financing, and letters of credit; construction and development loans; commercial real estate loans; residential real estate loans comprising first and second lien 1-4 family mortgage loans, and home equity lines of credit; and consumer loans, including secured and unsecured installment, and term loans. In addition, it offers wealth management products, including mutual funds, annuities, individual retirement accounts, and other financial products, as well as other fiduciary and private banking products and services. Further, the company provides a range of other financial services comprising debit and credit cards, treasury and cash management, merchant, automated clearing house, lock-box, receivables factoring, correspondent banking, and other treasury services, as well as employee and payroll benefits solutions; and drive-through banking facilities, automated teller machines, night depository, personalized checks, electronic funds transfer, domestic and foreign wire transfer, traveler's checks, vault, loan and deposit sweep accounts, interest-rate swaps, small business administration products, online and mobile banking, e-statements, and bank-by-mail services. Business First Bancshares, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Key info

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CEO
Mr. David R. Melville III
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HQ
500 Laurel Street, Suite 101, Baton Rouge, LA, 70801, United States
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Employees
821
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Market cap
1 020 764 352,00 $US
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P/E
11.2
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Dividend yield
1.90%

🕴️ Insider activity (90 days)

2 transactions — 0 buys and 2 sales reported by Business First Bancshares, Inc. executives.

CG
Cummings George W. III
2026-08-24
Sell
CG
Cummings George W. III
2026-08-21
Sell

🏦 Hedge Funds

28 institutional funds report a position on BFST in their latest SEC quarterly filing.

BlackRock, Inc.
VANGUARD GROUP INC
VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC
DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP
Jupiter Topco LLC

📰 Recent news

15 recent articles on BFST.

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Kairos Score 0-100

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