FIRST BUSEY CORPORATION
At today's price, FIRST BUSEY CORPORATION (BUSE) is priced for 9.6% return on equity. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
At about $28, First Busey trades near 1 times book value, which for a bank inverts into an assumption that it sustains a return on equity around 9.5%. That is within reach of its history and would be a step up from the depressed returns of the last year, which were weighed down by merger costs that are now clearing. The transformative event is the CrossFirst acquisition, completed in early 2025. It roughly doubled the franchise and dragged reported earnings through integration charges, but the
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238 institutional managers reported holding BUSE in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 63% of the company; the top 10 hold 40%. 38 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Wellington Management, BlackRock, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 3.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
BUSE's share count grew 57.5% over the past five years even with $176.20M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting); the current rate is $1.00 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $198.90M in dividends and $139.56M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at BUSE over the trailing three years: 2023: 32 buys totaling $1.63M; 2024: 44 buys totaling $274k; 2025: 40 buys totaling $3.25M; 2026: 2 buys totaling $34k. 26 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
BUSE's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-04 | -0.6% | -10.9% |
| 2023-11-03 | -2.7% | +17.1% |
| 2024-02-24 | +0.4% | -0.1% |
| 2024-05-08 | -0.1% | +3.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
BUSE's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-14 (items 5.02, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-22 (items 5.02, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-05 (items 8.01); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-14 (items 8.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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