First Busey Corporation (BUSE)

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First Busey Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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First Busey Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $165 million in fiscal 2016 to $894 million in fiscal 2025, up 20.7% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 16% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, First Busey Corporation's diluted share count grew about 14.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 50% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 13 sales (13 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 5 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03, buying about $205 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, First Busey Corporation earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 86 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 47.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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First Busey Corporation's standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $894 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 25% by size; a net margin of 15.1% ranks in the bottom 21%; revenue growth of 35.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 7% (its annual reports).

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First Busey Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Dukeman, Van A (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2007-08-10, 19.3 years (top 7% of its family); most of the 22 officers and directors filing now have filed since the record of its people begins (2025-03-01), a floor of 1.7 years the record cannot see past, so that part is not read; 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 22 people in charge now (bottom 48%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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First Busey Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $294 million against debt of $114 million leaves 1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 19% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 19.3% of revenue (bottom 31%) (its annual report).

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First Busey Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 35.4% a year over the last three filed years against 20.7% over all 10, speeding up (top 6% of its family); the newest year grew 70.8% (top 1%); capital spending grew 57.8% a year (top 9%) (its annual reports). First Busey Corporation tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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First Busey Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $894 million in fiscal 2025 came in 41.6% above the $631 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 1% of its family); net income of $135 million against a prior three-year average of $122 million (bottom 46%); a net margin of 15.1% against 27.6% before (bottom 9%) (its annual reports).