First Busey Corporation

BUSE Financial Banks Regional

First Busey Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.0 billion, up 57.4% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−4.46%
EPS
+6.90%
Free cash flow
+29.8%
Total debt
−3.56%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

28.70 0.67 −2.28%
Market cap
$2.3B
P/E
11.7×
Fwd P/E
11.5×
Dividend yield
3.62%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

First Busey Corporation (BUSE) Free cash flow margin

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First Busey Corporation's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 21.7%, up 5.1 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (16.7%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −11.4% (fiscal 2016) to 77.9% (fiscal 2017); the current reading is higher than 27% of that period. That is above the Banks Regional industry median of 18.0% and above the Financial sector median of 11.4%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 16.7% (9.58)
FY2024 26.2% (1.73)
FY2023 28.0% (5.99)
FY2022 34.0% (4.10)
FY2021 38.1% 2.14
FY2020 35.9% 19.94
FY2019 16.0% (34.88)
FY2018 50.9% (27.06)
FY2017 77.9% 89.33
FY2016 −11.4% (42.97)

Against its own ten years

Low −11.4% High 77.9%
Ten-year median 31.6%
Current reading's percentile 27

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
SYBT Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. compare 33.9%
BANR Banner Corporation compare 27.4%
EFSC Enterprise Financial Services Corporation compare 23.7%
BUSE First Busey Corporation 21.7%
BBAR BBVA Banco Frances S.A. compare 11.8%
WAFD WaFd, Inc. compare 0.00%
OFG OFG Bancorp compare 0.00%
MBIN Merchants Bancorp compare 0.00%
NWBI Northwest Bancshares, Inc. compare 0.00%
Banks Regional industry median 18.0%
Financial sector median 11.4%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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