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Business First Bancshares (BFST) Interest Expense - Debt (2016 - 2025)

Business First Bancshares has reported Interest Expense - Debt over the past 11 years, most recently at $5.3 million for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Interest Expense - Debt at $5.3 million for Q4 2025, down 3.84% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was $22.9 million (up 2.86% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was $22.9 million, up 2.86%.
  • Interest Expense - Debt for Q4 2025 was $5.3 million at Business First Bancshares, down from $6.1 million in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Interest Expense - Debt for BFST hit a ceiling of $8.8 million in Q2 2023 and a floor of $718000.0 in Q1 2021.
  • Median Interest Expense - Debt over the past 5 years was $5.3 million (2024), compared with a mean of $4.6 million.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Interest Expense - Debt: surged 464.67% in 2023 and later crashed 43.89% in 2024.
  • Business First Bancshares' Interest Expense - Debt stood at $1.3 million in 2021, then skyrocketed by 294.62% to $5.1 million in 2022, then surged by 30.69% to $6.7 million in 2023, then decreased by 17.33% to $5.6 million in 2024, then dropped by 3.84% to $5.3 million in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Interest Expense - Debt were $5.3 million (Q4 2025), $6.1 million (Q3 2025), and $6.3 million (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.