Business First BancsharesBFST
13F holders, Q1 2026 (March 31)170holders +3
19new positions
18sold out
4famous investors
$27.03avg. 13F price*
At the end of Q1 2026, 170 institutions reported holding Business First Bancshares (BFST) in their 13F filings, up 3 from Q4 2025. 19 opened new positions and 18 sold out. The largest holders were BlackRock, Inc. ($66.2M), Vanguard Capital Management LLC ($38.7M) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP ($31.5M). 4 famous investors held it, including Cliff Asness (0.0% of AQR Capital Management's portfolio), Ken Griffin (0.0% of Citadel Advisors's portfolio) and David E. Shaw (0.0% of D. E. Shaw & Co.'s portfolio).
- Company
- Business First Bancshares
- CUSIP
- 12326C105
- Latest filing quarter
- Q2 2026
History
Number of 13F holders
Total Exit/New Position Q4 2025 → Q1 2026
| Institutions | Total Value | |
|---|---|---|
| New Positions | 19 | $11.6M |
| Exits | 18 | $6.2M |
All 13F filers, Q4 2025 → Q1 2026: 1,900,473 shares bought and 603,867 shares sold, net +1,296,606 shares. Counts holders who added, trimmed, opened or closed a position; split-adjusted.
Ownership 170 holders
| BlackRock, Inc. | 0.00% | Add +6.8% | 2,446,961 | $66.2M |
| Vanguard Capital Management LLC | 0.00% | — | 1,431,162 | $38.7M |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 0.01% | Add +7.5% | 1,165,720 | $31.5M |
| Janus Henderson Group PLC | 0.01% | Add +0.4% | 989,686 | $26.8M |
| American Century Companies Inc. | 0.01% | Add +13.1% | 890,391 | $24.1M |
| Royce & Associates LP | 0.22% | Add +1.6% | 836,098 | $22.6M |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 0.00% | Add +10.8% | 810,004 | $21.9M |
| State Street Corp. | 0.00% | Add +12.0% | 661,090 | $17.9M |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 0.00% | Add +255.8% | 441,853 | $11.9M |
| Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, The | 0.01% | Reduce -1.1% | 434,931 | $11.8M |
| Ranger Investment Management, L.P. | 0.63% | Reduce -0.3% | 321,290 | $8.7M |
| Northern Trust Corp. | 0.00% | Add +13.2% | 296,091 | $8.0M |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. | 0.00% | Add +9.8% | 266,417 | $7.2M |
| Curi Capital, LLC | 0.12% | No change | 250,009 | $6.8M |
| Mendon Capital Advisors Corp. | 2.62% | No change | 250,000 | $6.8M |
| Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC | 0.00% | — | 245,307 | $6.6M |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. | 0.01% | Add +3.5% | 241,401 | $6.5M |
| Banc Funds Co. LLC | 1.18% | Add +22.9% | 234,257 | $6.3M |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 0.00% | Reduce -14.3% | 234,884 | $6.3M |
| Fourthstone LLC | 1.06% | Add +74.8% | 231,075 | $6.2M |
| Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co. | 0.00% | — | 209,234 | $5.7M |
| Bridgeway Capital Management, LLC | 0.11% | Add +2.0% | 207,204 | $5.6M |
| Franklin Resources Inc. | 0.00% | Add +15.1% | 178,547 | $4.8M |
| Morgan Stanley | 0.00% | Add +3.0% | 177,163 | $4.8M |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -8.4% | 161,773 | $4.4M |
| Empowered Funds, LLC | 0.02% | Add +3.4% | 121,404 | $3.3M |
| Qube Research & Technologies Ltd | 0.00% | Add +493.4% | 116,841 | $3.2M |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 0.00% | Add +9.8% | 115,651 | $3.1M |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 0.00% | Reduce -6.7% | 104,638 | $2.7M |
| AQR Capital Management | 0.00% | Reduce -2.3% | 100,857 | $2.7M |
| Polaris Capital Management, LLC | 0.18% | No change | 82,400 | $2.2M |
| Creative Planning | 0.00% | Add +17.4% | 80,947 | $2.2M |
| Two Sigma Investments, LP | 0.00% | Add +26.7% | 80,372 | $2.2M |
| Cresset Asset Management, LLC | 0.01% | No change | 70,503 | $1.9M |
| Smith Shellnut Wilson LLC | 0.72% | Reduce -14.1% | 61,136 | $1.7M |
| HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.00% | New | 60,396 | $1.6M |
| Nuveen, LLC | 0.00% | Add +7.1% | 59,640 | $1.6M |
| Summit Financial Wealth Advisors, LLC | 0.23% | New | 59,449 | $1.6M |
| Swiss National Bank | 0.00% | No change | 57,608 | $1.6M |
| Arax Advisory Partners | 0.04% | Add +1364025.0% | 54,565 | $1.5M |
| Sei Investments Co. | 0.00% | Add +127.9% | 51,452 | $1.4M |
| Bank of America Corp. | 0.00% | Reduce -4.2% | 51,357 | $1.4M |
| Womack Financial LLC | 1.01% | Reduce -1.9% | 50,661 | $1.4M |
| Man Group plc | 0.00% | Add +17.6% | 49,593 | $1.3M |
| Vines Capital Management, LLC | 1.31% | New | 49,062 | $1.3M |
| Steel Grove Capital Advisors, LLC | 0.14% | New | 47,736 | $1.3M |
| Kestra Advisory Services, LLC | 0.00% | New | 47,399 | $1.3M |
| Pacific Ridge Capital Partners, LLC | 0.28% | Add +0.0% | 47,383 | $1.3M |
| Raymond James Financial Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -10.8% | 46,268 | $1.3M |
| Squarepoint Ops LLC | 0.00% | Add +247.3% | 45,243 | $1.2M |
| Citadel Advisors | 0.00% | Add +265.2% | 43,537 | $1.2M |
| Victory Capital Management Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -1.3% | 43,450 | $1.2M |
| Montz Harcus Wealth Management LLC | 0.44% | Add +0.5% | 40,530 | $1.1M |
| Prudential Financial Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -15.5% | 40,305 | $1.1M |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 0.00% | Add +5.7% | 38,792 | $1.0M |
| Geneos Wealth Management Inc. | 0.02% | No change | 38,237 | $1.0M |
| Meriwether Wealth & Planning, LLC | 0.56% | No change | 37,583 | $1.0M |
| Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. | 0.00% | Reduce -23.4% | 36,180 | $978K |
| Invesco Ltd. | 0.00% | Reduce -3.5% | 35,383 | $957K |
| Jacobs Levy Equity Management, Inc. | 0.00% | Add +13.5% | 35,153 | $951K |
| D. E. Shaw & Co. | 0.00% | Add +96.4% | 34,434 | $931K |
| Gator Capital Management, LLC | 0.19% | Reduce -49.7% | 33,168 | $897K |
| LPL Financial LLC | 0.00% | Add +7.6% | 32,783 | $886K |
| UBS Group AG | 0.00% | Reduce -0.5% | 31,009 | $838K |
| UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC | 0.00% | Add +3.1% | 30,834 | $834K |
| FreeGulliver LLC | 0.34% | New | 30,014 | $812K |
| Principal Financial Group Inc. | 0.00% | New | 29,621 | $801K |
| Teacher Retirement System of Texas | 0.00% | Add +197.0% | 28,787 | $778K |
| Ethos Financial Group, LLC | 0.05% | No change | 27,631 | $747K |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 0.00% | Reduce -0.1% | 27,576 | $746K |
| Millennium Management | 0.00% | Reduce -56.1% | 27,135 | $734K |
| Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC | 0.00% | — | 27,019 | $731K |
| Deutsche Bank AG | 0.00% | Add +18.1% | 26,457 | $715K |
| Vident Advisory, LLC | 0.01% | New | 25,913 | $701K |
| Robertson Stephens Wealth Management, LLC | 0.02% | Reduce -73.4% | 25,486 | $689K |
| Pathstone Holdings, LLC | 0.00% | No change | 25,395 | $687K |
| Argent Advisors, Inc. | 0.18% | Add +92.3% | 24,896 | $673K |
| Penn Capital Management Company, LLC | 0.05% | Add +13.3% | 24,879 | $673K |
| Los Angeles Capital Management LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -2.7% | 24,368 | $659K |
| Susquehanna Fundamental Investments, LLC | 0.02% | New | 24,028 | $650K |
| STRS Ohio | 0.00% | Add +101.7% | 23,400 | $633K |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 0.00% | Reduce -10.6% | 23,313 | $630K |
| T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. | 0.00% | Add +38.7% | 22,517 | $609K |
| MQS Management LLC | 0.39% | New | 21,397 | $579K |
| Texas Yale Capital Corp. | 0.02% | New | 19,890 | $538K |
| Kings Path Partners LLC | 0.18% | No change | 19,770 | $535K |
| LSV Asset Management | 0.00% | No change | 19,270 | $521K |
| Stratos Wealth Partners, LTD. | 0.01% | Reduce -7.8% | 18,550 | $502K |
| Hartmann Taylor Wealth Management, LLC | 0.33% | Reduce -35.1% | 18,506 | $500K |
| Quantinno Capital Management LP | 0.00% | Add +63.3% | 18,033 | $488K |
| First Foundation Advisors | 0.02% | No change | 17,966 | $486K |
| VANGUARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, Ltd | 0.00% | — | 17,440 | $472K |
| MetLife Investment Management, LLC | 0.00% | No change | 17,131 | $463K |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -10.1% | 16,522 | $447K |
| Rodgers Brothers Inc. | 0.05% | No change | 16,500 | $446K |
| 1492 Capital Management LLC | 0.17% | Add +82.7% | 16,216 | $438K |
| E&G Advisors, LLC | 0.10% | No change | 16,100 | $435K |
| EntryPoint Capital, LLC | 0.13% | No change | 15,774 | $427K |
| CenterBook Partners LP | 0.02% | Reduce -49.5% | 15,532 | $420K |
| MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. | 0.00% | Add +11.3% | 14,757 | $399K |
| PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -0.3% | 12,615 | $341K |
| Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH | 0.00% | No change | 12,190 | $330K |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 0.00% | Reduce -62.3% | 12,104 | $327K |
| Susquehanna International Group, LLP | 0.00% | New | 10,916 | $295K |
| Barclays PLC | 0.00% | Reduce -77.0% | 10,616 | $287K |
| SG Americas Securities, LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -58.7% | 10,323 | $279K |
| Mercer Global Advisors Inc. | 0.00% | Add +26.3% | 10,124 | $274K |
| Asset Planning Services Inc. /La/ | 0.12% | No change | 10,000 | $270K |
| Canada Pension Plan Investment Board | 0.00% | No change | 9,800 | $265K |
| Sterling Capital Management LLC | 0.01% | Reduce -36.6% | 9,785 | $265K |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 0.00% | Reduce -5.5% | 9,729 | $263K |
| BNP Paribas Financial Markets | 0.00% | Reduce -11.0% | 9,537 | $258K |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | 0.00% | No change | 9,202 | $249K |
| KG Capital Management | 0.17% | No change | 8,831 | $239K |
| Prime Capital Investment Advisors, LLC | 0.00% | No change | 8,752 | $237K |
| Daytona Street Capital LLC | 0.17% | No change | 8,000 | $221K |
| DGS Capital Management, LLC | 0.04% | Reduce -10.8% | 8,165 | $221K |
| Arizona State Retirement System | 0.00% | Reduce -1.3% | 8,131 | $220K |
| JMN Financial LLC | 0.21% | Reduce -11.6% | 7,986 | $216K |
| Zurcher Kantonalbank (Zurich Cantonalbank) | 0.00% | Add +22.7% | 7,978 | $216K |
| Police & Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey | 0.00% | No change | 7,844 | $212K |
| Ieq Capital, LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -29.4% | 7,758 | $210K |
| Intech Investment Management LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -26.8% | 7,411 | $200K |
| Farther Finance Advisors, LLC | 0.00% | Add +22.7% | 6,956 | $191K |
| Vanguard Investments Australia, Ltd. | 0.00% | — | 6,543 | $177K |
| KLP Kapitalforvaltning As | 0.00% | No change | 6,300 | $170K |
| Citigroup Inc. | 0.00% | Add +22.6% | 5,287 | $143K |
| Cwm, LLC | 0.00% | Add +0.2% | 4,453 | $120K |
| CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE Co | 0.00% | No change | 4,424 | $120K |
| FMR LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -32.7% | 4,097 | $111K |
| Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio | 0.00% | No change | 3,169 | $86K |
| Ameritas Investment Partners, Inc. | 0.00% | No change | 2,379 | $64K |
| Tower Research Capital LLC (TRC) | 0.00% | Add +260.2% | 2,262 | $61K |
| Quantbot Technologies LP | 0.00% | New | 2,149 | $58K |
| Steward Partners Investment Advisory, LLC | 0.00% | No change | 1,666 | $45K |
| NewEdge Advisors, LLC | 0.00% | No change | 1,383 | $37K |
| Delos Wealth Advisors, LLC | 0.02% | No change | 1,258 | $34K |
| State of Alaska, Department of Revenue | 0.00% | No change | 1,189 | $32K |
| Smartleaf Asset Management LLC | 0.00% | No change | 1,099 | $29K |
| Adkins Seale Capital Management LLC | 0.01% | No change | 499 | $13K |
| Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. | 0.00% | Add +396.6% | 432 | $12K |
| Aquatic Capital Management LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -78.2% | 422 | $11K |
| GAMMA Investing LLC | 0.00% | No change | 330 | $9K |
| Allworth Financial LP | 0.00% | Add +21.6% | 236 | $6K |
| Capital Advisors, Ltd. LLC | 0.00% | No change | 226 | $6K |
| Jones Financial Companies LLLP | 0.00% | New | 193 | $5K |
| Signaturefd, LLC | 0.00% | No change | 152 | $4K |
| IFP Advisors, Inc | 0.00% | Add +0.7% | 149 | $4K |
| US Bancorp \de | 0.00% | Add +44.4% | 143 | $4K |
| Essential Partners LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -23.3% | 135 | $4K |
| EverSource Wealth Advisors, LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -4.3% | 135 | $4K |
| Quadrant Capital Group LLC | 0.00% | No change | 107 | $3K |
| Optiver Holding B.V. | 0.00% | Reduce -31.2% | 106 | $3K |
| Rothschild Investment LLC | 0.00% | Add +34.5% | 78 | $2K |
| Osaic Holdings, Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -3.8% | 76 | $2K |
| Versant Capital Management, Inc | 0.00% | New | 74 | $2K |
| True Wealth Design, LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -1.5% | 66 | $2K |
| Torren Management, LLC | 0.00% | No change | 63 | $2K |
| Root Financial Partners, LLC | 0.00% | New | 49 | $1K |
| Nisa Investment Advisors, LLC | 0.00% | Add +115.0% | 43 | $1K |
| Covestor Ltd | 0.00% | Reduce -67.5% | 27 | $1K |
| Larson Financial Group LLC | 0.00% | No change | 35 | $946 |
| Quarry LP | 0.00% | Reduce -96.0% | 31 | $838 |
| Physician Wealth Advisors, Inc. | 0.00% | New | 30 | $812 |
| MAI Capital Management | 0.00% | Add +5.6% | 19 | $514 |
| Trust Co | 0.00% | No change | 17 | $462 |
| Sunbelt Securities, Inc. | 0.00% | No change | 13 | $352 |
| Keating Financial Advisory Services, Inc. | 0.00% | New | 10 | $270 |
| Fortitude Family Office, LLC | 0.00% | No change | 5 | $135 |
| Twin Peaks Wealth Advisors, LLC | 0.00% | New | 1 | $27 |
"% of holder's portfolio" is BFST's weight in each manager's 13F, not the share of Business First Bancshares the manager owns.