Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Payout Ratio (2017 - 2026)
Business First Bancshares' (BFST) Payout Ratio was 0.21 for Q2 2026, down 6.2% from 0.22 a year earlier but up 1.5% from the prior quarter.
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Payout Ratio (2017 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For FY2025, Payout Ratio at Business First Bancshares was 0.20, down 17.9% from FY2024.
- By year, Payout Ratio came in at 0.25 in FY2024 (+29.1%), 0.19 in FY2023 (-5.8%), 0.20 in FY2022 (+13.0%) and 0.18 in FY2021 (-27.8%).
- Five-year quarterly Payout Ratio spans a low of 0.17 in Q3 2021 and a high of 0.25 in Q4 2024.
- Year over year, Payout Ratio has now declined in each of the last four quarters, with growth averaging 4.0% over the last eight quarters.
- The high point for year-over-year Payout Ratio in five years was Q2 2022 (growth of 37.0%); the low point was Q3 2021 (a decline of 45.7%).
- Per Business Quant data, the three quarters before Q2 2026 came in at 0.21 (Q1 2026), 0.20 (Q4 2025) and 0.22 (Q3 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 0.21 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 0.21 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 0.20 |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 0.22 |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 0.22 |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 0.23 |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 0.25 |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 0.24 |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 0.22 |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 0.21 |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 0.19 |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 0.18 |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 0.19 |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 0.20 |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 0.20 |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 0.21 |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 0.22 |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 0.20 |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 0.18 |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 0.17 |
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. Payout Ratio API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=payout-ratio&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "payout-ratio", "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=payout-ratio&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();