With 0.7 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.55 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $22.1999 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $21.63. The 52-week range on BUSE shows that it touched its highest point at $28.30 and its lowest point at $18.40 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.57. With its current market cap of 1.98 billion, BUSE has annualized dividend of $0.99 while the current yield stands at 4.47%. BUSE paid its most recent dividend on 1752796800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1752796800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.81.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of BUSE was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -4.69%, but this was down by -7.95% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.88% while six-month performance fell -9.30%. The stock lost -6.11% in the past year, while it has lost -20.40% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BUSE yields 1.12 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.64. For the next quarter, that number is 0.60. This implies an EPS growth rate of -31.39% for this year and 94.22% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 89.10 million BUSE shares are outstanding with a float of 85.78 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 1.42 million, which was 159.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Van A. Dukeman CFA as the firm’s Chairman, CEO & Chairman of Busey Bank, Ms. Amy L. Randolph serves as its Executive VP & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.61223 of BUSE’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BUSE since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With BUSE analysts setting a high price target of 30.0 and a low target of 22.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 26.57143. Based on these targets, BUSE could surge 35.56% to reach the target high and fall by -0.59% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 20.07% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.02408 being high and $1.99489 being low. For BUSE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.01435.
