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Business First Bancshares BFST Earnings yield

Earnings yield at other companies

Equity BancsharesEQBK

2.6%-6.6pp

First BancorpFBNC

5.2%-0.1pp

JPMorgan ChaseJPM

7.4%-1.3pp

Cullen/Frost BankersCFR

7.7%+0.3pp

Hancock Whitney CorporationHWC

8%-2.5pp

Prosperity BancsharesPB

7.8%+0.4pp

Other financials

Income statement

Revenue$89.2M+12.7%

Net income$23.6M+14.7%

EPS (diluted)$0.68+4.6%

Balance sheet

Cash & equivalents$589.8M+88.5%

Total debt$25.5M-14.4%

Total equity$991.2M+20.0%

Total assets$8.9B+14.4%

Cash flow

Operating cash flow$26.7M-6.6%

CapEx-$888.0K-183%

Free cash flow$25.8M-6.2%

Valuation

Market cap$985.24M+42.9%

Enterprise value$420.95M+3.6%

P/E10.8×+1.3×

P/S2.9×+0.6×

Profitability

Net margin27.1%+2.3pp

FCF margin27%-0.7pp

Returns & leverage

Return on equity10%+0.2pp

Debt / equity0×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Business First Bancshares’s reported figures.

net income/market cap=10.3%

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Business First Bancshares’s 10-Q, filed May 1, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Business First Bancshares's earnings yield?: Business First Bancshares (BFST) reported earnings yield of 10.3% in Q1 2026.
How has Business First Bancshares's earnings yield changed year-over-year?: Business First Bancshares's earnings yield increased by 2.6% year-over-year, from 10% to 10.3%.
What is the long-term trend for Business First Bancshares's earnings yield?: Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Business First Bancshares's earnings yield has grown at a 9.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 7.1% to 11.3%.
What does earnings yield mean?: Trailing-twelve-month net income divided by market capitalization at the quarter end — the inverse of the P/E ratio, expressed as a percentage.