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CompanyCurrent Price50-Day Moving Average52-Week RangeMarket CapBetaAvg. VolumeToday's Volume
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
$24.65
-0.1%
$23.79
$20.07
$30.30
$732.58M0.8196,933 shs97,498 shs
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
$40.80
-1.1%
$39.43
$32.95
$50.85
$714.61M0.7859,842 shs136,512 shs
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
$94.66
-0.4%
$89.23
$46.10
$96.95
$803.84M0.5258,239 shs128,005 shs
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
$25.04
+3.0%
$26.16
$17.75
$30.94
$168.13M0.4117,101 shs37,102 shs
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Compare Price Performance

Company1-Day Performance7-Day Performance30-Day Performance90-Day Performance1-Year Performance
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
0.00%+6.24%+3.09%+1.31%+13.37%
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
0.00%+6.01%+5.76%+4.29%+16.87%
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
0.00%+6.38%+4.72%+26.03%+99.58%
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
0.00%+0.70%-8.82%-5.67%+36.59%
CompanyOverall ScoreAnalyst's OpinionShort Interest ScoreDividend StrengthESG ScoreNews and Social Media SentimentCompany OwnershipEarnings & Valuation
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
4.3408 of 5 stars
3.53.02.50.02.62.52.5
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
4.6094 of 5 stars
2.34.02.53.11.92.52.5
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
2.2536 of 5 stars
1.23.01.70.01.62.52.5
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
4.8602 of 5 stars
3.53.04.23.22.20.82.5
CompanyConsensus Rating ScoreConsensus RatingConsensus Price Target% Upside from Current Price
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
3.00
Buy$31.0025.76% Upside
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
2.50
Moderate Buy$46.6014.22% Upside
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
2.33
Hold$92.50-2.28% Downside
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
3.00
Buy$32.3329.13% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest FSFG, BFST, ESQ, and EQBK Analyst Ratings

DateCompanyBrokerageActionRatingPrice TargetDetails
5/6/2025
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
Hovde Group
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UpgradeMarket Perform ➝ Outperform$34.00
4/29/2025
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
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Boost Price TargetMarket Perform ➝ Market Perform$85.00 ➝ $94.00
4/29/2025
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
Piper Sandler
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Boost Price TargetOverweight ➝ Overweight$30.00 ➝ $32.00
4/28/2025
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
Maxim Group
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Boost Price TargetBuy ➝ Buy$28.00 ➝ $31.00
4/25/2025
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
Stephens
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Lower Price TargetOverweight ➝ Overweight$34.00 ➝ $32.00
4/25/2025
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
Raymond James Financial
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Lower Price TargetOutperform ➝ Outperform$30.00 ➝ $28.00
4/17/2025
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
DA Davidson
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Lower Price TargetNeutral ➝ Neutral$40.00 ➝ $39.00
4/17/2025
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
Piper Sandler
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Lower Price TargetOverweight ➝ Overweight$46.00 ➝ $44.00
4/7/2025
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
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Lower Price TargetMarket Perform ➝ Market Perform$46.00 ➝ $44.00
4/3/2025
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
Janney Montgomery Scott
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Initiated CoverageNeutral
(Data available from 6/30/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)
CompanyAnnual RevenuePrice/SalesCashflowPrice/CashBook ValuePrice/Book
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
$458.96M1.59$2.57 per share9.58$24.63 per share1.00
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
$225.03M3.18$3.84 per share10.63$29.32 per share1.39
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
$138.27M5.79$5.61 per share16.86$28.49 per share3.32
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
$134.52M1.29$1.96 per share12.76$25.73 per share0.97
CompanyNet IncomeEPSTrailing P/E RatioForward P/E RatioP/E GrowthNet MarginsReturn on Equity (ROE)Return on Assets (ROA)Next Earnings Date
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
$65.11M$2.4310.148.33N/A15.00%11.49%1.06%7/24/2025 (Estimated)
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
$62.62M$3.9310.2510.12N/A18.66%14.64%1.31%7/14/2025 (Confirmed)
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
$43.66M$5.2917.8915.72N/A31.37%19.20%2.45%7/24/2025 (Estimated)
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
$13.59M$2.818.919.63N/A13.68%9.61%0.70%7/24/2025 (Estimated)

Latest FSFG, BFST, ESQ, and EQBK Earnings

DateQuarterCompanyConsensus EstimateReported EPSBeat/MissGap EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueDetails
7/24/2025Q2 2025
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
$0.65N/AN/AN/A$78.94 millionN/A
7/24/2025Q2 2025
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
$1.38N/AN/AN/A$28.26 millionN/A
7/24/2025Q3 2025
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
$0.72N/AN/AN/A$16.94 millionN/A
7/15/2025N/A
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
$0.89N/AN/AN/A$60.44 millionN/A
4/24/2025Q1 2025
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
$0.61$0.65+$0.04$0.65$77.54 million$79.21 million
4/24/2025Q1 2025
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
$1.30$1.33+$0.03$1.33$30.71 million$33.76 million
4/24/2025Q2 2025
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
$0.55$0.76+$0.21$0.79$15.55 million$19.55 million
CompanyAnnual PayoutDividend Yield3-Year Dividend GrowthPayout RatioYears of Consecutive Growth
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
$0.562.27%N/A23.05%2 Years
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
$0.601.47%N/A15.27%3 Years
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
$0.700.74%N/A13.23%4 Years
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
$0.642.56%N/A22.78%12 Years

Latest FSFG, BFST, ESQ, and EQBK Dividends

AnnouncementCompanyPeriodAmountYieldEx-Dividend DateRecord DatePayable Date
5/23/2025
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
quarterly$0.151.5%6/30/20256/30/20257/15/2025
5/23/2025
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
quarterly$0.162.35%6/13/20256/13/20256/30/2025
4/24/2025
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
quarterly$0.17500.82%5/15/20255/15/20256/2/2025
4/24/2025
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
quarterly$0.142.5%5/15/20255/15/20255/31/2025
(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)
CompanyDebt-to-Equity RatioCurrent RatioQuick Ratio
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
0.55
0.99
0.99
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
0.78
0.86
0.86
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
N/A
0.93
0.93
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
2.10
1.10
1.07

Institutional Ownership

CompanyInstitutional Ownership
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
47.35%
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
71.80%
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
54.66%
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
35.22%
CompanyEmployeesShares OutstandingFree FloatOptionable
Business First Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
BFST
Business First Bancshares
75029.69 million27.78 millionOptionable
Equity Bancshares, Inc. stock logo
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
70017.52 million14.07 millionOptionable
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. stock logo
ESQ
Esquire Financial
1108.46 million6.94 millionNot Optionable
First Savings Financial Group, Inc. stock logo
FSFG
First Savings Financial Group
4706.92 million5.81 millionNot Optionable

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Business First Bancshares stock logo

Business First Bancshares NASDAQ:BFST

$24.65 -0.02 (-0.08%)
As of 04:00 PM Eastern

Business First Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for b1BANK that provides various banking products and services in Louisiana and Texas. It offers various deposit products and services, including checking, demand, money market, time, and savings accounts; and certificates of deposits, remote deposit capture, and direct deposit services. The company also provides commercial and industrial loans, such as working capital, term, equipment financing, asset acquisition, expansion and development, borrowing base, and other loan products, as well as commercial lines of credit, accounts receivable factoring, agricultural financing, and letters of credit; construction and development loans; commercial real estate loans; residential real estate loans comprising first and second lien 1-4 family mortgage loans, and home equity lines of credit; and consumer loans, including secured and unsecured installment, and term loans. In addition, it offers wealth management products, including mutual funds, annuities, individual retirement accounts, and other financial products, as well as other fiduciary and private banking products and services. Further, the company provides a range of other financial services comprising debit and credit cards, treasury and cash management, merchant, automated clearing house, lock-box, receivables factoring, correspondent banking, and other treasury services, as well as employee and payroll benefits solutions; and drive-through banking facilities, automated teller machines, night depository, personalized checks, electronic funds transfer, domestic and foreign wire transfer, traveler's checks, vault, loan and deposit sweep accounts, online and mobile banking, e-statements, and bank-by-mail services. Business First Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Equity Bancshares stock logo

Equity Bancshares NASDAQ:EQBK

$40.80 -0.45 (-1.09%)
As of 03:57 PM Eastern

Equity Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Equity Bank that provides a range of banking, mortgage banking, and financial services to individual and corporate customers. The company accepts various demand, savings, money market, and time deposits. Its loan products include commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, commercial lines of credit, working capital, term, equipment and aircraft financing, acquisition, expansion and development, borrowing base, real estate construction, homebuilder, agricultural, government guaranteed, and other loan products. The company's loan products also comprise 1 4 family residential mortgages, agriculture, consumer, residential real estate mortgage, and agricultural real estate and production loans. It also provides debit and credit cards; insurance brokerage; trust and wealth management; online banking solutions, such as access to account balances, online transfers, online bill payment, and electronic delivery of customer statements; mobile banking solutions comprising remote check deposits with mobile bill pay; ATMs; and treasury management, wire transfer, automated clearing house, and stop payment services. In addition, the company offers cash management deposit products, such as lockbox, remote deposit capture, positive pay, reverse positive pay, account reconciliation services, zero balance accounts, and sweep accounts, as well as banking services through telephone, mail, and personal appointments. It operates a network of branches in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Equity Bancshares, Inc. was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.

Esquire Financial stock logo

Esquire Financial NASDAQ:ESQ

$94.66 -0.34 (-0.36%)
As of 04:00 PM Eastern

Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Esquire Bank, National Association that provides commercial banking products and services to legal industry and small businesses, and commercial and retail customers in the United States. The company offers checking, savings, money market, and time deposits, as well as certificates of deposit. It also provides commercial loans, such as short-term financing for inventory, receivables, the purchase of supplies, or other operating needs arising during the normal course of business, as well as loans to its qualified ISO customers; commercial lines of credit; consumer loans consisting of post-settlement consumer and structured settlement loans to plaintiffs and claimants, as well as loans to individuals for debt consolidation, medical expenses, living expenses, payment of outstanding bills, or other consumer needs; and real estate loans, such as multifamily, 1-4 family residential, commercial real estate, and construction loans, as well as merchant services. In addition, it offers cash management, cash sweep, online and mobile banking, individual retirement accounts, and working capital lines of credit. Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Jericho, New York.

First Savings Financial Group stock logo

First Savings Financial Group NASDAQ:FSFG

$25.04 +0.74 (+3.05%)
As of 04:00 PM Eastern

First Savings Financial Group, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for First Savings Bank that provides various financial services to consumers and businesses in southern Indiana. The company operates through three segments: Core Banking, SBA Lending, and Mortgage Banking. It accepts deposits, such as checking accounts, NOW and money market accounts, regular savings accounts, and time deposits. The company also provides loans, including one-to four-family residential real estate, commercial real estate, construction, land and land development, multi-family real estate, and commercial business loans, as well as consumer loans, such as automobile and truck loans, home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, unsecured loans, boat and mobile home loans, loans secured by savings deposits, and other personal loans. In addition, it is involved in the mortgage banking; investment activities; and the provision of property and casualty insurance products, and reinsurance to other third-party insurance captives. First Savings Financial Group, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Jeffersonville, Indiana.