Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Interest Expense - Debt (2014 - 2026)
Business First Bancshares (BFST) reported Interest Expense - Debt of $6.56 million for Q2 2026, up 4.7% from $6.26 million a year earlier and up 44.4% from the prior quarter.
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Interest Expense - Debt (2014 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
Over the twelve months ended Jun 30, 2026, Business First Bancshares' Interest Expense - Debt came in at $22.49 million, up 0.4% year-over-year; for FY2025, it came in at $22.93 million, up 2.9% from FY2024.
- Interest Expense - Debt has a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38.2% (FY2020 to FY2025).
- By year, Interest Expense - Debt came in at $22.29 million in FY2024 (-28.8%), $31.29 million in FY2023 (+158.1%), $12.12 million in FY2022 (+177.4%) and $4.37 million in FY2021 (-3.9%).
- The Q2 2026 figure ranks as the highest quarterly Interest Expense - Debt since Q4 2023.
- Year over year, Interest Expense - Debt gained in three of the last eight quarters, with an average decline of 5.2%.
- The high point for year-over-year Interest Expense - Debt in five years was Q1 2023 (growth of 464.7%); the low point was Q2 2024 (a decline of 43.9%).
- Per Business Quant data, the three quarters before Q2 2026 came in at $4.54 million (Q1 2026), $5.34 million (Q4 2025) and $6.05 million (Q3 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 6.56 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 4.54 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 5.34 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 6.05 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 6.26 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 5.27 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 5.55 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 5.32 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 4.96 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 6.45 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 6.72 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 7.92 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 8.84 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 7.82 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 5.14 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 3.71 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 1.90 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 1.38 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 1.30 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 1.18 Mn |
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. Interest Expense - Debt API
Pull this series into your own models, spreadsheets and apps with the Business Quant
Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
frequency, period or values and it follows. Swap YOUR_API_KEY for your own key.
https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=interest-expense-debt&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "interest-expense-debt", "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=interest-expense-debt&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();