Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) EBT Margin (2014 - 2026)
Business First Bancshares' EBT Margin was 947.61% in Q2 2026, down 116.81 percentage points from 1064.41% a year earlier but up 8.84 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) EBT Margin (2014 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
On a trailing twelve-month basis, Business First Bancshares' EBT Margin was 1006.54% through Jun 30, 2026, up 123.88 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2025, it was 1030.54%, up 245.34 percentage points from FY2024.
- EBT Margin shows a five-year change of +344.05 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- In earlier years, EBT Margin was 785.20% in FY2024 (-148.29 pp), 933.49% in FY2023 (+104.28 pp), 829.21% in FY2022 (-118.36 pp) and 947.57% in FY2021 (+261.08 pp).
- Quarterly EBT Margin has moved between 611.30% (Q1 2022) and 1126.00% (Q3 2025) over five years.
- Compared with a year earlier, EBT Margin was higher in five of the last eight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +80.69 percentage points.
- The best year-over-year quarter for EBT Margin over five years was Q4 2025 (a gain of 302.17 percentage points); the worst was Q2 2022 (a drop of 478.54 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, BFST's EBT Margin in the three quarters before Q2 2026 was 938.77% (Q1 2026), 1042.40% (Q4 2025) and 1126.00% (Q3 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 33.00% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 33.05% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 33.19% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 35.68% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 34.41% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 32.60% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 27.46% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 34.05% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 32.89% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 28.25% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 33.80% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 39.84% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 38.36% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 31.46% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 35.66% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 28.21% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 30.47% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 23.80% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 31.75% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 29.62% |
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. EBT Margin API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=ebt-margin&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "ebt-margin", "ticker": "BFST", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=ebt-margin&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();