Business First Bancshares

BFST

Market cap $896M

The multi-year partnership will integrate agentic AI into key stages of b1BANK's banking lifecycle, helping teams work faster, improve controls, and increase capacity while maintaining strong risk and compliance standards.

Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Business First (BFST) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended December 2025, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.

Business First (BFST) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.79 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.72 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.66 per share a year ago.

BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFST) (Business First), parent company of b1BANK, today announced its unaudited results for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2025. Business First reported net income available to common shareholders of $21.0 million or $0.71 per diluted common share, decreases of $0.5 million and $0.02, respectively, compared to the linked quarter. On a non-GAAP basis, core net income for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2025, which excludes certain income and expenses, was $23.5 million or $0.79 per diluted common share, increases of $2.3 million and $0.07 from the linked quarter.

Looking beyond Wall Street's top-and-bottom-line estimate forecasts for Business First (BFST), delve into some of its key metrics to gain a deeper insight into the company's potential performance for the quarter ended December 2025.

BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST) (Business First), the parent company of b1BANK, announced it is scheduled to release fourth quarter 2025 earnings after market close on Thurs.

BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST) (Business First), the holding company for b1BANK, announced today the successful completion of its previously announced acquisition of Progressive Bancorp, Inc. (Progressive) and its wholly-owned bank subsidiary, Progressive Bank.

After reaching an important support level, Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) could be a good stock pick from a technical perspective. BFST recently experienced a "golden cross" event, which saw its 50-day simple moving average breaking out above its 200-day simple moving average.

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