Business First Bancshares
Yahoo Finance • 15 days ago
b1BANK partners with Covecta to deploy agentic AI
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. b1BANK is Covec... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 4 months ago
Business First Bancshares announces $30M stock repurchase program
* Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/BFST]) has approved a stock repurchase program authorizing the company to buy back up to $30 million of its common stock over the next two years, through October 2... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 4 months ago
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Announces Stock Repurchase Program
BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST) (Business First), the holding company for b1BANK, announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program auth... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 4 months ago
Business First Bancshares targets 1.2% core ROAA by Q4 2026 as it advances M&A integrations and expense discipline
Earnings Call Insights: Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Q3 2025 MANAGEMENT VIEW * CEO David Melville reported continued incremental quality earnings improvement, attributing progress largely to strong expense control, with "3 qu... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 5 months ago
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call
BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST), the parent company of b1BANK, announced today that it is scheduled to release its financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30,... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 7 months ago
Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) Reports Q2 2025 Earnings Beat with $20.8M Net Income
Business First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:BFST [https://www.chartmill.com/stock/quote/BFST]), the parent company of b1BANK, reported its second-quarter 2025 financial results, posting net income available to common shareholders of $20.8 mill... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 7 months ago
Business First Bancshares Non-GAAP EPS of $0.66 beats by $0.02, revenue of $81.42M beats by $2.48M
* Business First Bancshares press release [https://seekingalpha.com/pr/20179250-business-first-bancshares-inc-announces-financial-results-for-q2-2025] (NASDAQ:BFST [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/BFST]): Q2 Non-GAAP EPS of $0.66 beats b... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 7 months ago
Business First Bancshares, Inc., Announces Financial Results for Q2 2025
BATON ROUGE, La., July 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFST) (Business First), parent company of b1BANK, today announced its unaudited results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025. Business First repo... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 7 months ago
Stocks Set to Extend Record Rally as U.S. and EU Reach Trade Deal, Big Tech Earnings and Fed Meeting in Focus
September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU25 [https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/ESU25]) are up +0.28%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU25 [https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/NQU25/overview]) are up +0.46% this morning, po... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 8 months ago
b1BANK Promotes Heather Roemer to Chief Administrative Officer
BATON ROUGE, La., July 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- b1BANK, the banking subsidiary of Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST), announced the promotion of Heather Roemer to executive vice president and chief administrative officer.... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 8 months ago
Business First Bancshares To Acquire Progressive Bancorp To Expand Operations In Louisiana
(RTTNews) - Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST), the holding company for b1BANK, said Monday that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Progressive Bancorp, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Progressive Bank. The acquisition... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 8 months ago
Business First Bancshares to acquire Progressive Bancorp
Bank holding company Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/BFST]) announced [https://seekingalpha.com/pr/20157938-business-first-bancshares-inc-announces-agreement-to-acquire-progressive-bancorp-inc-and] o... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 8 months ago
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire Progressive Bancorp, Inc. and Progressive Bank
BATON ROUGE, La., July 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST) ("Business First"), the holding company for b1BANK, announced today the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Progressive Bancorp,... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 8 months ago
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call
BATON ROUGE, La., July 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST), the parent company of b1BANK, announced today that it is scheduled to release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30,... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 10 months ago
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Appoints Alejandro M. Sanchez to its Board of Directors
BATON ROUGE, La., April 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST), the holding company for b1BANK, has announced the appointment of Alejandro M. Sanchez to the Business First Bancshares, Inc. Board of Dir... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 11 months ago
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2025 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call
BATON ROUGE, La., April 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST), the parent company of b1BANK, is scheduled to release first quarter 2025 earnings after market close on Thursday, April 24, 2025. Execut... Full story
Yahoo Finance • last year
b1BANK Announces Senna Bayasgalan as Chief Marketing Officer
BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- b1BANK, announces the appointment of Senna Bayasgalan as chief marketing officer. Bayasgalan will lead brand and marketing technology initiatives to support the banks’ growth and deepen... Full story
Yahoo Finance • last year
Business First Bancshares, Inc., Announces Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2024 and Q4 2024
BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFST) (Business First), parent company of b1BANK, today announced its unaudited results for the quarter ended December 31, 2024. Business First... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 2 years ago
b1BANK Hires Gerrit van de Wetering to Launch Derivative Solutions Services
Business First Bancshares, Inc. Gerrit van de Wetering Gerrit van de Wetering, Managing Director of Derivative Solutions BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jerry Vascocu, Chief Administrative Officer for b1BANK, the bank... Full story
Yahoo Finance • 2 years ago
Business First Bancshares, Inc., Announces Financial Results for Q3 2023
BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Business First Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFST) (Business First), parent company of b1BANK, today announced its unaudited results for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, including net... Full story
