A new trading day began on Tuesday, with First Busey Corp (NASDAQ: BUSE) stock price down -4.95% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $24.04. BUSE’s price has ranged from $21.59 to $28.97 over the past 52 weeks.
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Financial Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 7.48% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 12.04%. With a float of $54.43 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $56.90 million.
The firm has a total of 1509 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 76.34%, operating margin of 43.74%, and the pretax margin is 26.6%.
First Busey Corp (BUSE) Insider Activity
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Banks – Regional Industry. The insider ownership of First Busey Corp is 4.44%, while institutional ownership is 61.61%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 26 ’25, was worth 43,652. In this transaction Director of this company bought 1,838 shares at a rate of $23.75, taking the stock ownership to the 437,481 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jan 31 ’25, when Company’s Director bought 16,427 for $24.53, making the entire transaction worth $402,928. This insider now owns 181,918 shares in total.
First Busey Corp (BUSE) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.62 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 12.04% per share during the next fiscal year.
First Busey Corp (NASDAQ: BUSE) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are First Busey Corp’s current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.97. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 7.60.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.98, a number that is poised to hit 0.37 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.82 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of First Busey Corp (BUSE)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [First Busey Corp, BUSE], we can find that recorded value of 0.84 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.41 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 25.80%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.70.
During the past 100 days, First Busey Corp’s (BUSE) raw stochastic average was set at 18.78%, which indicates a significant increase from 0.40% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 28.13% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 33.45% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $23.81, while its 200-day Moving Average is $24.94. Now, the first resistance to watch is $23.59. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $24.34. The third major resistance level sits at $24.71. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $22.47, it is likely to go to the next support level at $22.10. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $21.35.
First Busey Corp (NASDAQ: BUSE) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 1.30 billion, the company has a total of 56,959K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 663,360 K while annual income is 113,690 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 166,540 K while its latest quarter income was 28,110 K.
