First Busey Corporation (BUSE): Price and Financial Metrics

BUSE POWR Grades

• BUSE scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 97.64% of US stocks.
• BUSE's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• BUSE ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 24th percentile.

BUSE Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 1,163.37, 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 97.6% of US stocks.
• BUSE's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 91.6% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, BUSE is more volatile than just 5.54% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to BUSE, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are WTFC, SAL, SPFI, LCNB, and LBAI.
• Visit BUSE's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.busey.com.

BUSE Valuation Summary

• BUSE's price/sales ratio is 3; this is 150% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, BUSE's price/earnings ratio has gone down 7.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BUSE.

BUSE Growth Metrics

Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 45.04%.
• Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -21.99%.
• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 57.32%.

Over the past 15 months, BUSE's revenue has gone up $37,412,000.

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
2022-09-30	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
2021-06-30	399.17	196.834	126.756

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.