Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) FCF Margin (2015 - 2026)
Business First Bancshares (BFST) posted FCF Margin of 780.48% for Q2 2026, up 256.40 percentage points from 524.08% a year earlier but down 97.24 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) FCF Margin (2015 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For the trailing twelve months through Jun 30, 2026, FCF Margin at Business First Bancshares was 893.89%, up 173.43 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2025, it was 859.65%, up 293.83 percentage points from FY2024.
- Annual FCF Margin shows a five-year change of +367.51 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- In prior years, Business First Bancshares' FCF Margin was 565.82% in FY2024 (-251.58 pp), 817.41% in FY2023 (+70.35 pp), 747.05% in FY2022 (-23.12 pp) and 770.17% in FY2021 (+278.03 pp).
- Quarterly FCF Margin has run from a low of 295.78% in Q1 2024 to a high of 1256.53% in Q3 2025 over five years.
- On a year-over-year basis, FCF Margin increased in six of the last eight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +182.21 percentage points.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for FCF Margin in the past five years was Q1 2025, with a gain of 665.90 percentage points; the weakest was Q3 2021, with a drop of 700.51 percentage points.
- According to Business Quant data, FCF Margin for the three prior quarters was 877.72% (Q1 2026), 698.56% (Q4 2025) and 1256.53% (Q3 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 27.18% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 30.90% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 22.25% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 39.82% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 16.94% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 34.72% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 22.70% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 31.41% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 21.17% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 11.84% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 23.09% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 29.04% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 39.27% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 34.12% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 16.77% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 32.34% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 27.44% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 33.56% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 25.51% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 27.59% |
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. FCF Margin API
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Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=fcf-margin&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "fcf-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=fcf-margin&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();