Business First Bancshares, Inc.BFST
What Business First Bancshares, Inc. does.
Business First Bancshares, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the parent company of b1BANK, formerly known as Business First Bank, a Louisiana state banking association and community-based financial institution that offers a full array of banking products and services. We currently operate throughout the state of Louisiana, in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and Houston, from a network of banking centers and loan production offices.
Since our founding in 2006, our mission has not changed – we seek to be the financial institution of choice for our markets’ small-to-midsized businesses and their owners and employees. To achieve this goal, we focus on recruiting, retaining and empowering talented bankers who are intimately familiar with and well respected in the communities that they serve, and on providing market-leading products and services that add value to our customers’ businesses. We are currently one of the largest Louisiana-based financial institutions. As of December 31, 2025, on a consolidated basis, we had total assets of $8.2 billion, total loans of $6.2 billion, total deposits of $6.7 billion and shareholders’ equity of $896.9 million.
Revenue and profit, by fiscal year.
| Fiscal year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $5.4M | $6.8M | $8.3M | $9.7M | $10.6M | $10.7M |
| Net income | $30.0M | $52.1M | $54.3M | $71.0M | $65.1M | $87.9M |
| Free cash flow | $26.4M | $52.5M | $61.8M | $79.3M | $59.8M | $92.0M |
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