| $705M | ||
| $248M | ||
| $183M | ||
| $155M | ||
| $119M | ||
| $68M |
Buys | $152,075 | 5 | 31 |
Sells | $1,779,129 | 11 | 69 |
| Day Rick D. | director | 2 | $80,061 | 0 | $0 | $80,061 |
| Ducrest John P. | director | 1 | $52,555 | 0 | $0 | $52,555 |
| MCCOLLISTER ROLFE H. JR. | director | 2 | $19,459 | 0 | $0 | $19,459 |
| Strong Saundra | EVP & General Counsel | 0 | $0 | 1 | $59,973 | $-59,973 |
| ROBERTSON GREG | EVP and CFO | 0 | $0 | 2 | $62,734 | $-62,734 |
| Carter Donald Chad | EVP, Correspondent Banking | 0 | $0 | 1 | $103,026 | $-103,026 |
| Buquet James J. III | director | 0 | $0 | 1 | $119,185 | $-119,185 |
| Folse Mark P. | director | 0 | $0 | 2 | $296,335 | $-296,335 |
| Cummings George W. III | director | 0 | $0 | 4 | $1.14M | $-1.14M |
Business First Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for b1BANK that provides various banking products and services. It offers various deposit products and services, including checking, demand, money market, time, and savings accounts; and certificates of deposits, remote deposit capture, and direct deposit services. The company also provides commercial and industrial loans, such as commercial lines of credit, letters of credit, working capital, term, equipment financing, asset acquisition, expansion and development, borrowing base, and other loan products; 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 services 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, online and mobile banking, e-statements, and bank-by-mail services. As of March 01, 2022, it operates approximately 48 full-service banking centers and three loan production offices across Louisiana, and in the Dallas and Houston markets. Business First Bancshares, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Over the last 12 months, insiders at Business First Bancshares, Inc. have bought $152,075 and sold $1.78M worth of Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at Business First Bancshares, Inc. have bought $407,398 and sold $1.93M worth of stock each year.
Highest buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months: Day Rick D. (director) — $80,061. Ducrest John P. (director) — $52,555. MCCOLLISTER ROLFE H. JR. (director) — $19,459.
The last purchase of 120 shares for transaction amount of $3,547 was made by MCCOLLISTER ROLFE H. JR. (director) on 2026‑02‑10.
| 2026-03-04 | Sale | Cummings George W. III | director | 11,000 0.0372% | $27.60 | $303,600 | -3.70% | |
| 2026-03-03 | Sale | Cummings George W. III | director | 9,800 0.0328% | $27.42 | $268,716 | -2.88% | |
| 2026-03-02 | Sale | Cummings George W. III | director | 200 0.0007% | $27.80 | $5,560 | -2.53% | |
| 2026-02-25 | Sale | Cummings George W. III | director | 20,000 0.0667% | $28.00 | $560,000 | -3.30% | |
| 2026-02-10 | Sale | Folse Mark P. | director | 4,854 0.0164% | $29.51 | $143,242 | -4.06% | |
| 2026-02-10 | MCCOLLISTER ROLFE H. JR. | director | 120 0.0004% | $29.56 | $3,547 | -4.06% | ||
| 2026-02-09 | Sale | Folse Mark P. | director | 5,146 0.0175% | $29.75 | $153,094 | -3.73% | |
| 2026-01-29 | Sale | Carter Donald Chad | EVP, Correspondent Banking | 3,778 0.0126% | $27.27 | $103,026 | +4.38% | |
| 2026-01-27 | Day Rick D. | director | 1,500 0.0051% | $27.55 | $41,325 | +5.27% | ||
| 2025-12-01 | Sale | ROBERTSON GREG | EVP and CFO | 1,400 0.0047% | $26.41 | $36,974 | +4.59% | |
| 2025-10-28 | Day Rick D. | director | 1,600 0.0056% | $24.21 | $38,736 | +10.45% | ||
| 2025-08-22 | Sale | Strong Saundra | EVP & General Counsel | 2,363 0.0079% | $25.38 | $59,973 | +2.98% | |
| 2025-08-04 | Sale | Buquet James J. III | director | 5,164 0.0175% | $23.08 | $119,185 | +10.27% | |
| 2025-07-31 | Ducrest John P. | director | 2,225 0.0074% | $23.62 | $52,555 | +7.28% | ||
| 2025-06-06 | MCCOLLISTER ROLFE H. JR. | director | 680 0.0023% | $23.40 | $15,912 | +7.23% | ||
| 2025-05-29 | Sale | ROBERTSON GREG | EVP and CFO | 1,086 0.0036% | $23.72 | $25,760 | +5.19% | |
| 2025-03-05 | Day Rick D. | director | 1,500 0.0051% | $25.46 | $38,195 | -1.58% | ||
| 2024-11-13 | Sale | Buquet James J. III | director | 14,000 0.0482% | $29.13 | $407,880 | -12.33% | |
| 2024-11-07 | Sale | McDonald Warren | Chief Credit Officer | 2,560 0.0088% | $28.70 | $73,472 | -11.27% | |
| 2024-11-06 | Sale | MELVILLE DAVID R. III | President and CEO | 9,172 0.03% | $28.42 | $260,668 | -15.24% |
| Cummings George W. III | director | 317775 0.9715% | $8.47M | 0 | 4 | |
| Day Rick D. | director | 267385 0.8174% | $7.13M | 11 | 0 | +29.4% |
| MCCOLLISTER ROLFE H. JR. | director | 93080 0.2846% | $2.48M | 5 | 0 | +13.46% |
| ROBERTSON GREG | EVP and CFO | 67835 0.2074% | $1.81M | 3 | 2 | +8.88% |
| Folse Mark P. | director | 53286 0.1629% | $1.42M | 0 | 11 | |
| Buquet James J. III | director | 28523 0.0872% | $760,420.78 | 4 | 4 | +5.48% |
| Carter Donald Chad | EVP, Correspondent Banking | 13863 0.0424% | $369,587.58 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ducrest John P. | director | 13716 0.0419% | $365,662.48 | 13 | 0 | +3.35% |
| Strong Saundra | EVP & General Counsel | 5997 0.0183% | $159,880.02 | 0 | 2 | |
| Hood William K | director | 770443 2.3553% | $20.54M | 5 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| MELVILLE DAVID R. III | President and CEO | 221639 0.6776% | $5.91M | 0 | 3 | |
| Johnson Joseph Vernon | director | 183057 0.5596% | $4.88M | 1 | 6 | +43.32% |
| MANSFIELD KEITH | EVP&COO of b1Bank | 64227 0.1964% | $1.71M | 5 | 0 | +19.55% |
| SHAMIEH FAYEZ K. | director | 50296 0.1538% | $1.34M | 2 | 0 | +2.86% |
| SMITH KENNETH W. | director | 49331 0.1508% | $1.32M | 1 | 0 | +47.14% |
| MCLINDON ANDREW D. | director | 39081 0.1195% | $1.04M | 33 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| Vascocu Norman Jerome Sr | director | 38721 0.1184% | $1.03M | 0 | 17 | |
| GREER ROBERT S. JR. | director | 20140 0.0616% | $536,932.40 | 3 | 0 | +18.77% |
| Jackson Jesse | EVP & Pres., Fin. Institutions | 19417 0.0594% | $517,657.22 | 0 | 1 | |
| McDonald Warren | Chief Credit Officer | 16535 0.0505% | $440,823.10 | 0 | 5 | |
| WHITE STEVEN GERARD | director | 12765 0.039% | $340,314.90 | 2 | 4 | +60.15% |
| ROBERTSON ALICIA | EVP - b1BANK | 12687 0.0388% | $338,235.42 | 2 | 1 | +33.34% |
| HINGLE DONALD A. II | EVP & CCE of b1Bank | 12449 0.0381% | $331,890.34 | 2 | 17 | <0.0001% |
| MOCKLER PATRICK E. | director | 12473 0.0381% | $332,530.18 | 1 | 0 | +3.22% |
| Manning Kathryn | Chief Risk Officer | 12343 0.0377% | $329,064.38 | 1 | 0 | +48.74% |
| PRICE ARTHUR | director | 9515 0.0291% | $253,669.90 | 2 | 0 | +48.92% |
| MONTGOMERY DAVID A. JR. | director | 7648 0.0234% | $203,895.68 | 1 | 0 | +3.22% |
| Smith Edgar R. III | director | 7443 0.0228% | $198,430.38 | 24 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| JORDAN PHILIP | EVP&CCO of Business First Bank | 6300 0.0193% | $167,958.00 | 1 | 0 | +2.51% |
| Brees Drew C. | director | 3625 0.0111% | $96,642.50 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| Calkins Carol | director | 3159 0.0097% | $84,218.94 | 2 | 0 | +22.65% |
| Tillage Keith Alexis | director | 698 0.0021% | $18,608.68 | 4 | 0 | +24.26% |
$12,926,693 | 286 | -13.94% | $844.15M | |
$7,387,157 | 197 | 5.56% | $941.41M | |
$11,859,260 | 163 | -0.72% | $869.26M | |
$3,144,347 | 129 | 5.12% | $1.08B | |
$8,507,348 | 128 | 9.16% | $1.03B | |
Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) | $4,180,050 | 123 | 6.08% | $872.06M |
$6,409,455 | 95 | 3.95% | $917.44M | |
$3,171,472 | 89 | 7.77% | $1.04B | |
$3,099,672 | 79 | 6.63% | $918.82M | |
$6,416,659 | 70 | 8.57% | $825.72M | |
$4,155,829 | 70 | 13.98% | $850.24M | |
$3,606,087 | 66 | 16.24% | $850.81M | |
$5,544,138 | 60 | 13.29% | $834.33M | |
$1,979,858 | 46 | 10.84% | $860.97M | |
$3,178,151 | 44 | 10.21% | $963.57M | |
$2,555,033 | 30 | 19.73% | $895.27M | |
$3,332,568 | 24 | -2.23% | $953.41M | |
$8,219,089 | 23 | 7.52% | $846.75M | |
$299,226 | 7 | 25.17% | $816.71M |
| Increased Positions | 75 | +44.64% | 1M | +6.69% |
| Decreased Positions | 66 | -39.29% | 673,334 | -4.46% |
| New Positions | 21 | New | 188,306 | New |
| Sold Out Positions | 13 | Sold Out | 119,356 | Sold Out |
| Total Postitions | 177 | +5.36% | 15M | +2.23% |
| Blackrock, Inc. | $58,133.00 | 7.49% | 2.25M | +29,755 | +1.34% | 2025-09-30 |
| Vanguard Group Inc | $41,178.00 | 5.3% | 1.59M | +17,690 | +1.12% | 2025-09-30 |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors Lp | $26,508.00 | 3.41% | 1.02M | +36,973 | +3.75% | 2025-09-30 |
| Janus Henderson Group Plc | $26,367.00 | 3.4% | 1.02M | +16,543 | +1.65% | 2025-09-30 |
| American Century Companies Inc | $18,910.00 | 2.44% | 730,694 | +81,594 | +12.57% | 2025-09-30 |
| Geode Capital Management, Llc | $18,546.00 | 2.39% | 716,630 | +19,356 | +2.78% | 2025-09-30 |
| Royce & Associates Lp | $16,772.00 | 2.16% | 648,080 | +96,720 | +17.54% | 2025-09-30 |
| State Street Corp | $15,489.00 | 2% | 598,503 | +23,195 | +4.03% | 2025-09-30 |
| Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, The | $11,497.00 | 1.48% | 444,257 | -6,911 | -1.53% | 2025-09-30 |
| Ranger Investment Management, L.P. | $8,951.00 | 1.15% | 345,855 | +2,155 | +0.63% | 2025-09-30 |