Institutional shares held 15 Million
0 calls
0 puts
Total value of holdings $362M
$0 calls
$0 puts
Market Cap $606M
25,105,100 Shares Out.
Institutional ownership 59.75%
# of Institutions 146


Latest Institutional Activity in BFST

Top Purchases

Q2 2025
Janus Henderson Group PLC Shares Held: 1M ($24.2M)
Q2 2025
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP Shares Held: 987K ($23.8M)
Q2 2025
Geode Capital Management, LLC Shares Held: 697K ($16.8M)
Q2 2025
Millennium Management LLC Shares Held: 213K ($5.13M)
Q2 2025
Northern Trust Corp Shares Held: 279K ($6.72M)

Top Sells

Q2 2025
Banc Funds CO LLC Shares Held: 347K ($8.37M)
Q2 2025
Vanguard Group Inc Shares Held: 1.57M ($38M)
Q2 2025
Franklin Resources Inc Shares Held: 174K ($4.2M)
Q2 2025
Goldman Sachs Group Inc Shares Held: 70.9K ($1.71M)
Q2 2025
Jane Street Group, LLC Shares Held: 24.6K ($593K)

About BFST

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.


Insider Transactions at BFST

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Last 12 Months Summary

Buy / Acquisition
306K Shares
From 15 Insiders
Open market or private purchase 4.41K shares
Grant, award, or other acquisition 272K shares
Acquisition or disposition by will or laws 14.1K shares
Small Acquisition 108 shares
Other acquisition or disposition 15.1K shares
Sell / Disposition
317K Shares
From 16 Insiders
Payment of exercise price or tax liability 30.6K shares
Open market or private sale 78.3K shares
Other acquisition or disposition 208K shares

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