BFST - Business First Bancshares - Stock Forecast

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BFST is currently covered by 4 analysts with an average price target of $31.02. This is a potential upside of $4.64 (17.59%) from yesterday's end of day stock price of $26.38.

Business First Bancshares's activity chart (see below) currently has 21 price targets and 27 ratings on display. The stock rating distribution of BFST is 88.89% BUY and 11.11% HOLD.

Stock Analyst Price Targets - Review

Analysts average stock forecasts to be materialized ratio is 60.95% with an average time for these price targets to be met of 691.2 days.

Highest price target for BFST is $33, Lowest price target is $30, average price target is $28.25.

Most recent stock forecast was given by MATT OLNEY from STEPHENS on 08-Jul-2025. First documented stock forecast 12-Jun-2018.

Best performing analysts who are covering BFST - Business First Bancshares:

William Wallace Matt Olney Kevin Fitzsimmons Daniel Tamayo Michael Rose

Currently out of the existing stock ratings of BFST, 8 are a BUY (88.89%), 1 are a HOLD (11.11%).

Analyst name

Rating

Current price target

Potential Upside

Previous price target

Date

Price targets met ratio

Average potential upside

Average Time (Days) For PT To Be Met

Performance score

Matt Olney (STEPHENS)

Buy

$30

$4.25 (16.50%)

$32

6 days ago
(08-Jul-2025)

2/6 (33.33%)

$3.93 (15.07%)

210

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Michael Rose (RAYMOND JAMES)

Buy

$30

$4.25 (16.50%)

6 months 25 days ago
(19-Dec-2024)

1/2 (50%)

$4.18 (16.19%)

737

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Kevin Fitzsimmons (D.A. DAVIDSON)

Buy

$33

$7.25 (28.16%)

$23

8 months 16 days ago
(28-Oct-2024)

5/7 (71.43%)

$6.59 (24.95%)

767

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Daniel Tamayo (RAYMOND JAMES)

Buy

$20

$-5.75 (-22.33%)

1 years 11 months 16 days ago
(28-Jul-2023)

1/1 (100%)

$-0.18 (-0.89%)

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William Wallace (RAYMOND JAMES)

Buy

$29

$3.25 (12.62%)

$33

3 years 7 days ago
(07-Jul-2022)

3/6 (50%)

$8.7 (42.86%)

1739

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What is BFST (Business First Bancshares) average time for price targets to be met?

On average it took 691.2 days on average for the stock forecasts to be realized with a an average price target met ratio 60.95

Which analyst has the current highest performing score on BFST (Business First Bancshares) with a proven track record?

WILLIAM WALLACE

Which analyst has the current lower performing score on BFST (Business First Bancshares) with a proven track record?

MICHAEL ROSE

Which analyst has the most public recommendations on BFST (Business First Bancshares)?

William Wallace has 3 price targets and 4 ratings on BFST

Which analyst is the currently most bullish on BFST (Business First Bancshares)?

Kevin Fitzsimmons with highest potential upside - $7.25

Which analyst is the currently most reserved on BFST (Business First Bancshares)?

Daniel Tamayo with lowest potential downside - -$5.75

Business First Bancshares in the News

Business First Bancshares To Acquire Progressive Bancorp To Expand Operations In Louisiana

(RTTNews) – Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST), the holding company for b1BANK, said Monday that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Progressive Bancorp, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Progressive Bank. The acquisition is expected to increase Business First’s total assets to approximately $8.5 billion, with total loans exceeding $6.6 billion. As of March...

Business First Bancshares to acquire Progressive Bancorp

Bank holding company Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/BFST]) announced [https://seekingalpha.com/pr/20157938-business-first-bancshares-inc-announces-agreement-to-acquire-progressive-bancorp-inc-and] on Monday the acquisition of Progressive Bancorp. Business First expects to issue about 3.05M shares of common stock to Progressive stockholders. Progressive investors are expected to own ~9.3% of the combined company. Cash will be paid in lieu of fractional shares and for in-the-money stock...