NASDAQ · Dividend

Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Dividend

$31.80 NASDAQ: BFST Market Cap $1.04B

Metric	Value
Dividend Yield	1.94%
Indicated Annual Dividend	$0.62
Payout Ratio	21.26%
FCF Yield	—
Current Price	$31.80

Dividend Analysis

Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) currently pays a dividend yielding 1.94%, an indicated annual rate of roughly $0.62 per share. The payout ratio is 21.26%, meaning less than 40% of reported earnings were paid out as dividends.

Business First Bancshares, Inc. pays quarterly; the payout ratio is 21.3% of earnings; free cash flow yield of 0.00% is below the 1.94% dividend yield, so the dividend is not fully covered by free cash flow at the current price.

Payment schedule

Measure	Value
Indicated annual dividendYield times the current share price.	$0.62
Dividend yieldAnnual dividend as a percentage of the share price.	1.94%
Payments per yearThis stock pays quarterly.	4
Amount per paymentIndicated annual dividend divided by the number of payments.	$0.15

Dividend income by amount invested

At today's price and the current indicated dividend. Shares are not rounded to whole numbers, and a future dividend is never guaranteed.

Invested	Shares	Income per year	Per payment
$1,000	31.4	$19.40	$4.85
$5,000	157.2	$97.00	$24.25
$10,000	314.5	$194.00	$48.50
$25,000	786.2	$485.00	$121.25
$50,000	1572.3	$970.00	$242.50

Yield across the 52-week range

Yield moves opposite the share price. Holding the current dividend constant, this is what the yield would have been at each end of the last year's range.

Share price	Price	Yield
At the 52-week high	$32.53	1.90%
Today	$31.80	1.94%
At the 52-week low	$22.56	2.73%

Dividend yield against peers

Business First Bancshares, Inc. ranks 2 of 6 by dividend yield among these companies; 1 yields more.

Company	Yield	P/E	Price
ACNB Corporation (ACNB)	2.63%	12.06	$65.42
Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST)	1.94%	10.96	$31.80
BancFirst Corporation (BANF)	1.92%	14.37	$111.21
Equity Bancshares, Inc. (EQBK)	1.84%	26.81	$48.88
First US Bancshares, Inc. (FUSB)	1.70%	12.20	$16.70
First Bancorp (FBNC)	1.54%	19.36	$64.44