Business First Bancshares Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

DB:828 Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
13 Nov 24	Sell€385,691	James Buquet	Individual	14,000	€27.63
07 Nov 24	Sell€68,116	Warren McDonald	Individual	2,560	€26.61
06 Nov 24	Sell€242,891	David Melville	Individual	9,172	€26.48
05 Nov 24	Sell€259,050	David Melville	Individual	10,828	€23.95
04 Nov 24	Sell€205,730	Joseph Johnson	Individual	8,500	€24.21
30 Oct 24	Sell€385,696	Joseph Johnson	Individual	15,500	€25.01
09 Sep 24	Sell€163,404	Mark Folse	Individual	7,346	€22.24
09 Sep 24	Sell€33,529	Warren McDonald	Individual	1,500	€22.35
30 Aug 24	Sell€3,411	Mark Folse	Individual	154	€22.15
29 Aug 24	Sell€55,297	Mark Folse	Individual	2,500	€22.12
01 Aug 24	Sell€36,520	Warren McDonald	Individual	1,532	€23.84
31 Jul 24	Sell€280,729	Joseph Johnson	Individual	11,874	€23.81
30 Jul 24	Sell€941,622	Mark Folse	Individual	40,000	€23.54
30 Jul 24	Sell€147,664	Saundra Strong	Individual	6,300	€23.44
30 Apr 24	Buy€34,172	Ricky Day	Individual	1,800	€18.98
11 Mar 24	Sell€106,673	Warren McDonald	Individual	5,211	€20.47

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: 828 insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of 828?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	11,000	0.0372%
Individual Insiders	1,603,188	5.43%
Institutions	12,706,763	43%
General Public	15,220,504	51.5%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have been diluted in the past year, with total shares outstanding growing by 16.6%.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 37.4% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
7.5%	BlackRock, Inc.	2,214,156	€55.4m	3.24%	no data
4.65%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	1,373,145	€34.4m	3.49%	no data
2.42%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	714,450	€17.9m	6.71%	no data
1.9%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	561,318	€14.1m	-2.11%	no data
1.77%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	523,626	€13.1m	5.01%	no data
1.57%	1st & Main Growth Partners	462,494	€11.6m	-5.23%	1.23%
1.55%	Manulife Asset Management	459,314	€11.5m	-2.63%	0.01%
1.52%	American Century Investment Management Inc	449,856	€11.3m	7.4%	0.01%
1.3%	Royce & Associates, LP	384,200	€9.6m	9.67%	0.08%
1.27%	Ranger Investment Management, L.P.	374,958	€9.4m	2.13%	0.61%
1.13%	JP Morgan Asset Management	334,890	€8.4m	-0.39%	no data
1.05%	Mendon Capital Advisors Corp	309,912	€7.8m	-16.2%	4.78%
1%	Curi RMB Capital, LLC	296,524	€7.4m	-19.9%	0.17%
1%	Janus Henderson Group plc	295,275	€7.4m	922%	no data
0.99%	Joseph Johnson	292,753	€7.3m	-7.58%	no data
0.89%	Ricky Day	262,785	€6.6m	0%	no data
0.84%	Russell Investment Management, LLC	247,982	€6.2m	27.4%	0.01%
0.8%	Bridgeway Capital Management, LLC	235,806	€5.9m	3.29%	0.1%
0.75%	David Melville	221,639	€5.6m	-8.28%	no data
0.72%	Kennedy Capital Management LLC	211,812	€5.3m	-14.7%	0.12%
0.71%	Northern Trust Global Investments	210,895	€5.3m	0.12%	no data
0.66%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	196,238	€4.9m	195%	no data
0.53%	Putnam LLC	156,847	€3.9m	27.3%	no data
0.45%	Robertson Stephens Wealth Management, LLC	132,662	€3.3m	0%	0.12%
0.42%	AllianceBernstein L.P.	125,078	€3.1m	-35.4%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/01/02 02:14
End of Day Share Price	2025/01/02 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Business First Bancshares, Inc. is covered by 12 analysts. 5 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Kevin Fitzsimmons	D.A. Davidson & Co.
Manuel Navas	D.A. Davidson & Co.
null null	D.A. Davidson & Co.