Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Total Debt (2014 - 2026)
Business First Bancshares (BFST) recorded Total Debt of $442.49 million in Q2 2026, down 10.2% from $492.95 million a year earlier but up 69.7% from the prior quarter.
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Total Debt (2014 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
At the end of FY2025, Business First Bancshares reported Total Debt of $431.2 million, up 21.2% from FY2024.
- Annual Total Debt has a five-year compound annual growth rate of 58.5% (FY2020 to FY2025).
- Across earlier years, Total Debt came in at $355.88 million in FY2024 (+18.6%), $300 million in FY2023 (-26.8%), $410.1 million in FY2022 (+400.0%) and $82.02 million in FY2021 (+90.1%).
- Quarterly Total Debt has ranged from $81.43 million in Q3 2021 to $534.06 million in Q3 2022 over the past five years.
- On a year-over-year basis, Total Debt rose in six of the last eight quarters, with growth averaging 14.2%.
- Peak year-over-year performance for Total Debt in the last five years was growth of 555.9% in Q3 2022, against a decline of 43.8% in Q3 2023 at the low end.
- Per Business Quant, the preceding three quarters came in at $260.79 million (Q1 2026), $431.2 million (Q4 2025) and $367.41 million (Q3 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 556.74 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 353.26 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 523.73 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 460.00 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 585.59 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 523.90 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 455.64 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 467.02 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 405.08 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 408.14 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 611.19 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 614.23 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 765.98 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 815.73 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 520.85 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 644.96 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 365.07 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 191.17 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 163.45 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 129.43 Mn |
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. Total Debt 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=total-debt&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "total-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=total-debt&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();