First Busey Corp (BUSE)

• Market cap: $1.91B
• 1 day: -0.95%
• 5 days: -1.52%
• 1 month: -3.75%
• 3 months: -14.80%
• 6 months: -16.71%
• Year to date: -9.88%
• 1 year: -6.94%
• 5 years: 12.87%
• 10 years: 11.06%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: Banks - Regional

About: First Busey Corporation is a financial holding company, whose subsidiaries provides retail and commercial banking services, remittance processing, and offers financial products and services with banking centers in Illinois, Missouri, Florida, and Indiana. The company's operations are managed through three operating segments consisting of Banking, FirsTech and Wealth Management. The banking segment generates a vast majority of its revenue.

Employees: 1,522

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

119% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 35 | Existing positions closed: 16

69% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 81 | Existing positions reduced: 48

10% more funds holding

Funds holding: 183 [Q3] → 202 (+19) [Q4]

3.7% more ownership

Funds ownership: 57.62% [Q3] → 61.32% (+3.7%) [Q4]

4% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $852M [Q3] → $822M (-$30M) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

3 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $25 20% upside
• Avg. target: $26 25% upside
• High target: $27 30% upside

3 analyst ratings

• positive: 1 33%
• neutral: 2 67%
• negative: 0 0%

Stephens & Co. Terry McEvoy 36% 1-year accuracy 10 / 28 met price target	25% upside $26	Equal-Weight Reiterated	23 Apr 2025
Raymond James Daniel Tamayo 18% 1-year accuracy 4 / 22 met price target	30% upside $27	Outperform Maintained	2 Apr 2025
DA Davidson Jeff Rulis 31% 1-year accuracy 4 / 13 met price target	20% upside $25	Neutral Maintained	25 Feb 2025