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Business First Bancshares, Inc. Common Stock | BFST

Daily Technical Analysis of Business First Bancshares, Inc. Common Stock

Business First Bancshares is up a bit on the day, funds flowing in kept the price up 1.54% since yesterday.

Currently BFST isn't at a clear support/resistance line that seems tradable. Business First Bancshares has looked pretty good over the last few months. It has definitely cuaght a bid and had a nice run. Over the last 3 months, shareholders are up 16.22 percent. BFST might find some support at the 21.23 level, buyers might push the price back up from here. But it's not very clear what will happen.


Last analyzed on 2024-11-13

Analyst Ratings for Business First Bancshares By Price Target And Rating

The analysts are pretty neutral on Business First Bancshares right now, so not much useful information here. The current Analysts Sentiment Score is 0.68. Most companies range between (-200 to 200).

Here's a break down of the latest rating changes. Piper Sandler gave a boost to their price target and moved to $26.00 from $23.00 on 2024-01-24. DA Davidson reiterated a rating of Buy on 2024-01-15. Raymond James downgraded from Outperform to Market Perform on 2024-01-05. Stephens boosted their price targ by 4.35% to $24.00 on 2023-10-27.

Company Ratings Score ?
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BFST0.683.07-2.771.060

Earnings Per Share (EPS) Estimates By Year and Quarter

(updated 2024-04-06)
Company YOY Growth Score (typical -20 to +20) Revision Directions (-6 to +6)
BFST0.000.00

Short interest for Business First Bancshares

We take into account several different measures of short interest to create a composite score. These measures are shown in the chart below. Short selling is when investors are betting against a stock. We compile these factors to create a dynamic Short Score - this can indicate poor sentiment, internal problems with a company or industry and the anticipation of future price declines. We look at the short interest percent, days to cover, the rate of change and total shares sold short.

Company Short Score (typical 1-15) ?
We take into account several different measures and attributes of short interest to create a composite sentiment score. typical range (0 - 30)
Short Interest Days to Cover Rate of Change Shares Short
BFST1.71%0.8192583-22.11207600

Social Sentiment for Business First Bancshares

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BFST

Companies with the highest correlation to Business First Bancshares

Company Score 1 Day% 5 Day 1 Month 3 Month 6 Month 1 Year RSI 3mo S-momo ? 6mo S-momo 1yr S-momo Resistance ? Support Demark Sell ? Demark Buy Short Interest Score
AUB | Atlantic Union Bankshares1.621.771.2612.017.4333.4335.087325.3320.6818.10-346.54-19928.57004.09829
PPBI | Pacific Premier Bancorp I1.592.944.029.7011.7931.6726.066715.0512.156.48-351.63-11795.09001.75865
FFBC | First Financial Bancorp1.551.703.3213.4112.8134.2646.527226.8324.0621.140.00-21035.07002.52923
FCF | First Commonwealth Financ1.512.513.1712.4011.5642.8345.317044.2936.1224.07-335.66-20490.40001.87329
FULT | Fulton Financial Corp1.51.742.6618.9311.6830.2652.947516.8723.1121.890.00-26304.70005.90886
TRMK | Trustmark Corp1.442.833.7512.4517.9234.0671.307142.3846.5148.860.00-29732.38004.4993
BOH | Bank of Hawaii Corp.1.432.994.0310.9320.9642.2943.546727.0620.8012.820.00-25923.690019.2576
NBTB | NBT Bancorp Inc1.422.273.1111.663.0438.0739.877322.2431.8522.380.00-21762.22002.35309

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Last updated 2022-12-20 15:34:27

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