First Busey Corp (BUSE)

• Market cap: $1.26B
• 1 day: 2.51%
• 5 days: -1.03%
• 1 month: -9.99%
• 3 months: -16.20%
• 6 months: -16.96%
• Year to date: -4.29%
• 1 year: -2.21%
• 5 years: 38.96%
• 10 years: 10.84%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: State Commercial Banks

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 filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

119% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 35 | Existing positions closed: 16

63% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 80 | Existing positions reduced: 49

10% more funds holding

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

2.85% more ownership

Funds ownership: 58.47% [Q3] → 61.32% (+2.85%) [Q4]

5% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $865M [Q3] → $822M (-$42.5M) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $25 13% upside
• Avg. target: $28 27% upside
• High target: $33 49% upside

4 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 50%
• neutral: 2 50%
• negative: 0 0%

DA Davidson Jeff Rulis 23% 1-year accuracy 3 / 13 met price target	13% upside $25	Neutral Maintained	25 Feb 2025
Stephens & Co. Terry McEvoy 41% 1-year accuracy 12 / 29 met price target	18% upside $26	Equal-Weight Reiterated	24 Feb 2025
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Damon Delmonte 19% 1-year accuracy 5 / 27 met price target	49% upside $33	Outperform Reiterated	30 Jan 2025
Piper Sandler Andrew Liesch 64% 1-year accuracy 14 / 22 met price target	27% upside $28	Overweight Maintained	30 Jan 2025