First Busey Corporation (BUSE): Price and Financial Metrics

BUSE POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where BUSE ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 75.9% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for BUSE is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 26 weeks.
• BUSE ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 19th percentile.

BUSE Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 139.84, FIRST BUSEY CORP is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 79.84% of US stocks.
• BUSE's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 90.67% of US stocks.
• FIRST BUSEY CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 9.2%, greater than the shareholder yield of 82.17% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to FIRST BUSEY CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be SPFI, PFC, TBBK, CCBG, and GNTY.
• BUSE's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit FIRST BUSEY CORP's official web site, go to www.busey.com.

BUSE Valuation Summary

• BUSE's EV/EBIT ratio is 9.5; this is 20.5% lower than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, BUSE's price/earnings ratio has gone down 8.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BUSE.

BUSE Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 70.58%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at -10.88%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -60.08%.

Over the past 34 months, BUSE's revenue has gone up $64,869,000.

The table below shows BUSE's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	445.618	165.787	128.311
2022-09-30	436.582	177.534	123.85
2022-06-30	427.591	153.429	114.13
2022-03-31	421.55	158.98	114.072
2021-12-31	418.603	162.012	123.449
2021-09-30	408.564	170.381	121.868

BUSE's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• BUSE has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 31.08% of graded US stocks.
• BUSE's asset turnover comes in at 0.035 -- ranking 280th of 428 Banking stocks.
• FCNCA, BANR, and BCOR are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with BUSE.

The table below shows BUSE's key quality metrics over time.