Tone mix
Week by week 50 weeks
Share of Business First Bancshares, Inc. Common Stock's 113 headlines over the last 52 weeks by the model's call, and the same mix week by week.
Biggest swings in the last year
The weeks whose tone moved furthest from the 8-week average, with the story most outlets carried that week.
- Week of Jul 14, 2025 · tone +100DA Davidson Has Bullish Estimate for BFST FY2026 Earnings+56
- Week of Dec 16, 2024 · tone +66Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) Upgraded by Raymond James to "Outperform" Rating+53
- Week of Feb 2, 2026 · tone 0Insider Selling: Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) EVP Sells 3,778 Shares of Stock-45
- Week of Jul 28, 2025 · tone 0Business First Bancshares, Inc., Announces Financial Results for Q2 2025-39
- Week of Feb 9, 2026 · tone 0Insider Selling: Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) Director Sells 5,146 Shares of Stock-38
- Week of Aug 4, 2025 · tone 0Business First (BFST) Q2 2025 Earnings Transcript-35
Daily headline tone, last 90 sessions
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Each point is the average score of the headlines about Business First Bancshares, Inc. Common Stock in one trading session, with the 8-session average drawn through it. Sessions with no headline about the company have no point.
Tone by period
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| Last 7 sessions | 1 | +50 |
| Last 30 sessions | 11 | +14 |
| Last 90 sessions | 30 | +11 |
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Every headline in the period counts equally.
Headlines on Friday, October 30, 2026
1 headline, average tone +50: 1 positive, 0 neutral and 0 negative. Showing all 1.
- www.manilatimes.net · 1 outletBusiness First Bancshares, Inc. Announces Stock Repurchase ProgramPositive
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| Business First Bancshares, Inc. Announces Stock Repurchase Program | www.manilatimes.net | 1 | Positive |
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Headlines on Wednesday, October 28, 2026
1 headline, average tone +100: 1 positive, 0 neutral and 0 negative. Showing all 1.
- www.themarketsdaily.com · 1 outletDA Davidson Issues Positive Forecast for Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) Stock PricePositive
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| DA Davidson Issues Positive Forecast for Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) Stock Price | www.themarketsdaily.com | 1 | Positive |
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Headlines on Tuesday, October 27, 2026
4 headlines, average tone 0: 0 positive, 4 neutral and 0 negative. Showing all 4.
- www.fool.com · 1 outletBFST Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript | The Motley FoolNeutral
- www.aol.com · 1 outletBFST Q3 2026 Earnings Call TranscriptNeutral
- www.dailypolitical.com · 1 outletHead-To-Head Analysis: Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) and Washington Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:WASH)Neutral
- www.themarketsdaily.com · 1 outletBusiness First Bancshares Q3 Earnings Call HighlightsNeutral
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| BFST Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript | The Motley Fool | www.fool.com | 1 | Neutral |
| BFST Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript | www.aol.com | 1 | Neutral |
| Head-To-Head Analysis: Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) and Washington Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:WASH) | www.dailypolitical.com | 1 | Neutral |
| Business First Bancshares Q3 Earnings Call Highlights | www.themarketsdaily.com | 1 | Neutral |
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Headlines on Monday, October 26, 2026
1 headline, average tone 0: 0 positive, 1 neutral and 0 negative. Showing all 1.
- www.manilatimes.net · 1 outletBusiness First Bancshares, Inc. Announces Financial Results for Q3 2026Neutral
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| Business First Bancshares, Inc. Announces Financial Results for Q3 2026 | www.manilatimes.net | 1 | Neutral |
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Headlines on Thursday, October 15, 2026
1 headline, average tone 0: 0 positive, 1 neutral and 0 negative. Showing all 1.
- www.dailypolitical.com · 1 outletCritical Contrast: Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) versus UMB Financial (NASDAQ:UMBF)Neutral
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| Critical Contrast: Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) versus UMB Financial (NASDAQ:UMBF) | www.dailypolitical.com | 1 | Neutral |
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How the score works
A headline's tone is not a forecast of the share price. Read the headlines themselves before acting on an average.
Which headlines count
Headlines come from the GDELT global news feed from 2019-09-23 on. A headline counts only when a model judges it to be about Business First Bancshares, Inc. Common Stock, not a passing mention.
How each headline is scored
The model calls each headline positive, neutral or negative news for the company. A period's tone is the share of positive minus negative headlines, from -100 (all negative) to +100 (all positive).
When a headline counts
Headlines published by 9:15 a.m. New York time belong to that day's session. Later and weekend headlines move to the next trading session.
Repeated stories
When several outlets carry the same headline, it counts once per session.