Business First Bancshares, Inc. cash flow statement
In fiscal 2025, Business First Bancshares, Inc.'s operations generated $92.1m of cash; it spent $66,000 on capital projects, leaving free cash flow of $92.0m. It returned $16.8m in dividends and $3.7m through buybacks.
Cash flow statement
| Fiscal year | 2013Dec 2013 | 2014Dec 2014 | 2015Dec 2015 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMSept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash from operations | 8 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 24 | 29 | 56 | 70 | 91 | 61 | 92 | 115 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| Stock-based pay | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 |
| Capital spending | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Free cash flow | 8 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 26 | 52 | 62 | 79 | 60 | 92 | 115 |
| Free cash flow after stock pay | 7 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 19 | 24 | 50 | 58 | 75 | 57 | 86 | 108 |
| Dividends paid | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 19 |
| Share buybacks | — | — | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 18 |
| Shares issued | 0 | — | — | — | 62 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 48 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Quarter | 2024 Q4Dec 2024 | 2025 Q1Mar 2025 | 2025 Q2Jun 2025 | 2025 Q3Sept 2025 | 2025 Q4Dec 2025 | 2026 Q1Mar 2026 | 2026 Q2Jun 2026 | 2026 Q3Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash from operations | 17 | 29 | 14 | 32 | 17 | 27 | 27 | 44 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Stock-based pay | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Capital spending | −0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | −2 | — | 0 | 0 |
| Free cash flow | 18 | 28 | 14 | 32 | 19 | — | 27 | 44 |
| Free cash flow after stock pay | 16 | 26 | 13 | 31 | 16 | — | 25 | 43 |
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