First Busey is a banks - regional business based in the US. First Busey shares (BUSE) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $21.69 – an increase of 4.93% over the previous week. First Busey employs 1,468 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $430.5 million.
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| Latest market close | $21.69 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $18.17 - $28.04 |
| 50-day moving average | $21.94 |
| 200-day moving average | $24.61 |
| Wall St. target price | $26.67 |
| PE ratio | 19.3889 |
| Dividend yield | $0.97 (4.84%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.08 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $21.69 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | 4.93% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 12.91% |
| 3 months (2025-02-05) | -12.75% |
| 6 months (2024-11-05) | -11.29% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | -8.56% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-04) | 38.21% |
| 3 years (2022-05-04) | 4.97% |
| 5 years (2020-05-04) | 52.88% |
Valuing First Busey stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of First Busey's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
First Busey's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 19x. In other words, First Busey shares trade at around 19x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
First Busey's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.05. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into First Busey's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
| Revenue TTM | $430.5 million |
|---|---|
| Gross profit TTM | $430.5 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 0.37% |
| Return on equity TTM | 3.32% |
| Profit margin | 13.35% |
| Book value | $24.22 |
| Market Capitalization | $1.9 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 36.7% of net profits
Recently First Busey has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), First Busey shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In First Busey's case, that would currently equate to about $0.97 per share.
While First Busey's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that First Busey may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
First Busey's most recent dividend payout was on 24 April 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 16 April 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
First Busey's shares were split on a 1:3 basis on 7 September 2015 . So if you had owned 3 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your First Busey shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 200% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for First Busey shares which in turn could have impacted First Busey's share price.
Over the last 12 months, First Busey's shares have ranged in value from as little as $18.17 up to $28.0396. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while First Busey's is 0.737. This would suggest that First Busey's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
First Busey Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Busey Bank that engages in the provision of retail and commercial banking products and services to individual, corporate, institutional, and governmental customers in the United States. It operates through three segments: Banking, Wealth Management, and FirsTech. The company offers demand and savings deposits, money transfers, safe deposit services, individual retirement accounts and other fiduciary services, automated teller machines, and technology-based networks, as well as various loan products, including residential real estate, home equity lines of credit, and consumer loans to individual customers; and commercial, commercial real estate, real estate construction, and agricultural loans, as well as cash management services to corporate customers. It also provides asset management, investment, brokerage, fiduciary, philanthropic advisory, tax preparation, and farm management services; trust and estate advisory services and financial planning; succession planning and employee retirement plan; and investment strategy consulting services to individuals, businesses, and foundations. In addition, the company payment technology solution offers text-based mobile bill pay; interactive voice response; electronic payment concentration delivered to automated clearing house networks, money management, and credit card networks; walk-in payment processing for customers at retail pay agents; customer service payments made over a telephone; direct debit services; merchant services referral solutions; lockbox remittance processing for customers to make payments by mail; and tools for billing, reconciliation, bill reminders, and treasury services. The company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. .
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