# First Busey share price today (First Busey Corporation, BUSE)

> First Busey Corporation's share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. BUSE · Financials · Banks - Regional · data as of 5 November 2026. Page: https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/buse

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## Key numbers

- Price: $28.67 (+24.7% in a year)
- P/BV: 1.1× (higher than 63% of the last 5.3 years)
- Revenue (Jun 2026): $195 M
- Profit (Jun 2026): $58.6 M
- Net margin: 30.1%
- ROE: 10%, FY25

The main question: the share price moved +24.7% in a year while yearly earnings per share moved −25.8%. The difference came from the market paying a higher multiple. ## What is the First Busey share price today? First Busey Corporation's share price was $28.67 at the close on 5 November 2026. It has been rising for 37 weeks. That is 2.4% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $23 and $31, and at that close it sat 69% of the way up from that low. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 7 weeks running. Over the last 10 years the share price moved +29% while the S&P 500 moved +245%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 18 September 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week. This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row. ## What dividend does First Busey pay? First Busey Corporation paid $1.02 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $0.26 for Jun 2026. At today's price of $28.67 that is a yield of 3.56%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast. ## Which stock lists is First Busey on? First Busey is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list. ## Is First Busey profitable? First Busey Corporation earned $58.6 M of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter. Full-year FY25 profit was $125 M. Over 4 years profit has grown 0.4% a year on average. That is 30.1% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $27.4 M. For the full year, FY25 profit was $125 M (+10.3% on the year before). ## How much revenue does First Busey make, and is it growing? First Busey Corporation reported $195 M of income in the Jun 2026 quarter. Over 4 years it has grown 14.4% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $716 M. The quarterly figures for FY25 do not add up to the full-year total on file, so those quarters are left out of the charts and sums. FY25 revenue was $716 M, +57.5% on the year before. ## How much does First Busey keep from what it earns? First Busey Corporation's net margin was 30.1% in the Jun 2026 quarter. Across 5 years it has been between 17.5% and 29.5%. The latest quarter is above every full year in that period. Why: the net margin move is clear, but the cost details behind it are not in our data, so we show the move without guessing the reason. ## How many of First Busey's loans have gone bad? First Busey Corporation does not report loan-quality figures this page can read, so this section says so rather than guess. No bad-loan figures are filed in a form this page can read, and none are guessed from the profit line. The income, margin and return sections carry what this business does report. Why: loan quality drives a lender, but its details (new bad loans, recoveries, money set aside) are not in our data for this company. The sections around this one carry what we can back up. ## How fast is First Busey's loan book growing? First Busey Corporation's revenue was $716 M in FY25, +57.5% on the year before, so the loan book is growing. The net margin on that income is 30.1%. Interest income stands in for the size of the loan book; changes in interest rates can move it a few points in any year. In short: a lender grows well when its loan book grows, its margin stays steady and its loans stay clean. Quarterly loan-quality figures are missing here, so revenue growth and margin are the two we watch. ## What is First Busey's P/BV ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? First Busey Corporation's P/BV is 1.1×, in the middle of its own history: higher than 63% of past readings. Its usual P/BV (the middle reading) is 1.0×, over 5.3 years of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth. Why the multiple is low: this lender earns about 10% a year on its equity. A lender that earns less on its net worth is valued lower for each dollar of it, and that gap usually closes only if returns improve. Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year book value grew while the price moved +24.7%. Price and book value moved together, so the multiple stayed in its range. Where the price move came from: over 5 years the price moved +1.1% a year; about +3.7% a year came from book-value growth and about −2.6 percentage points from the multiple (the market paying less). The split is approximate (price return minus book-value growth). It shows how much of the move came from the market paying a different multiple. In short: the multiple is about average against its own past, so the book value trend underneath matters more than the multiple. ## Is the First Busey business getting better or worse? First Busey Corporation's business trend cannot be read yet. There are fewer than eight usable quarters of growth figures, so there is not enough history to read the trend. This is based on 6 quarters of 1 measure, with some gaps. Why it matters: with too little history, we say so rather than guess a direction. There are fewer than eight usable quarters, so this page does not guess a direction from so little history. ## How much does First Busey earn on its equity and assets? First Busey Corporation earned a return on equity of 5% in FY25. That is its lowest yearly reading on file. On its assets, every $100 earned about $1.25, before the effect of borrowing. For a lender the balance sheet is the business, so the return on equity and on assets have to be read together. That return is below the level a bank needs to grow its net worth quickly, which helps explain why its multiple is where it is. Why: the ROE chart shows the move, but the deposit-cost and bad-loan details behind it are not in our data. ## Does First Busey have too much debt? For a bank, borrowing is the raw material of the business, not a warning sign: it borrows money in order to lend it out. Its safety is read through its returns and its loans. Its safety is read from the bad-loan figures and the return on equity instead. For a manufacturer, debt is a claim on its profits. For a lender it is the stock it trades in, so the usual debt-to-equity test would mislead and is not used here. ## What is the First Busey shareholding pattern? 7.0% of First Busey Corporation's tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so some traders are betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 6.4 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead. It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history. Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who holds the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story. ## How far is First Busey from balance-sheet trouble? For First Busey Corporation, the Z-score is not used, because it was built for manufacturers, not lenders. For a lender, safety is read from its capital and bad-loan figures instead. ## How does First Busey rank in its industry? There is no score against its industry: First Busey Corporation is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Banks - Regional. The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown. ## Which companies is First Busey compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison. ## Which companies are close to First Busey in size? First Busey is the 102nd largest of 274 Banks - Regional companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 5 November 2026). Just above it: Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc., Merchants Bancorp and Banco BBVA Argentina S.A. Just below it: Northwest Bancshares, Inc., Enterprise Financial Services Corp and WaFd, Inc. ### Banks - Regional companies close in size

1. [Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/sybt) $2.5 billion
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3. [Banco BBVA Argentina S.A.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/bbar) $2.4 billion
4. First Busey Corporation $2.3 billion
5. [Northwest Bancshares, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/nwbi) $2.2 billion
6. [Enterprise Financial Services Corp](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/efsc) $2.2 billion
7. [WaFd, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/wafd) $2.2 billion

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## What else do people ask about First Busey? ### What were First Busey's latest quarterly results? First Busey Corporation reported total income of $195 M and net profit of $58.6 M for the Jun 2026 quarter. Earnings per share were $0.69. The net margin was 30.1% (as of 5 November 2026). ### What is First Busey's market cap? First Busey Corporation's market capitalisation is $2.3 B at a stock price of $28.67. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so it changes whenever the price moves (as of 5 November 2026). ### How is First Busey performing? First Busey Corporation's share price has been rising for 37 weeks. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, for 7 weeks running. This describes what the data did, not a rating (as of 5 November 2026). ### Will First Busey's stock price go up? This page does not forecast First Busey Corporation's stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $28.67, and it has been rising for 37 weeks. Its P/BV of 1.1× is higher than 63% of its own last 5 years (as of 5 November 2026). ### Where is First Busey in its business cycle? First Busey Corporation's FY25 net margin was 17.5%, against a 5-year range of 17.5% to 29.5%: the low end of its own range, which is often where recoveries start. The latest quarter was 30.1%. Comparing margins with a company's own long history is a good way to see where it is in its cycle (as of 5 November 2026). ### What could break the First Busey story? The main question: the share price moved +24.7% in a year while yearly earnings per share moved −25.8%. The difference came from the market paying a higher multiple. On price, this page treats a rise as over when the share price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row (as of 5 November 2026). ### Is First Busey a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: First Busey Corporation's share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. The main open question: whether earnings grow into a price that has already moved. Every number on this page is worked out by code from the published figures, with no forecasts and no price opinions (as of 5 November 2026). This is research, not advice. We’re not SEBI-registered.