First Busey Corporation

BUSE stock score: 65/100

$29.90 · +1.91% · Scored Oct 20, 2026

Technical
64
Fundamental
66
News
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The reading

First Busey (BUSE) scores 65 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 80% of Financial Services stocks and 90% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 64, fundamentals 66.

Among the fundamentals, Price Target at 100 and Fund Ownership at 100 score highest, while Return on Equity (ROE) at 20 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 60 and contrarian oscillators 44.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 61 to 75, and it is up 3 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward BUSE’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

66

Pulling it up

  • Price Target100

    Price target score compares the current stock price to analyst consensus targets.

  • Fund Ownership100

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • Institutional Ownership100

    Institutional ownership measures the percentage held by professional investors.

Holding it back

  • Return on Equity (ROE)20

    Return on Equity (ROE) measures how efficiently a company generates profits from shareholder equity.

  • Earnings Estimates22

    Earnings estimates score evaluates analyst projections for future profitability.

  • Earnings Growth (5-Year)32

    5-year earnings growth evaluates long-term profit trajectory and consistency.

34 weighted scorers; 7 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

59

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • EMA 50 Cross Up100

    EMA 50 Cross Up detects when price crosses above the 50-period EMA.

  • SMA 20 Cross Up100

    SMA 20 Cross Up tracks when very short-term averages cross above the 20-period SMA.

Holding it back

  • TRIX10

    TRIX is a momentum oscillator that filters out short-term noise by triple-smoothing price data.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)14

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Commodity Channel Index (14)16

    Commodity Channel Index (14-period) measures the current price level relative to an average price level.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly591
Daily593
Weekly642
Monthly732
Quarterly632

Composite score, last 90 days

05010065Jul 25, 2026Oct 20, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 62Jul 26, 2026: 62Jul 27, 2026: 75Jul 28, 2026: 75Jul 29, 2026: 72Jul 30, 2026: 72Jul 31, 2026: 72Aug 2, 2026: 61Aug 3, 2026: 62Aug 5, 2026: 61Aug 6, 2026: 61Aug 7, 2026: 64Aug 8, 2026: 64Aug 9, 2026: 64Aug 10, 2026: 64Aug 11, 2026: 64Aug 12, 2026: 65Aug 13, 2026: 65Aug 14, 2026: 64Aug 15, 2026: 64Aug 16, 2026: 64Aug 17, 2026: 64Aug 18, 2026: 63Aug 19, 2026: 63Aug 20, 2026: 63Aug 22, 2026: 64Aug 23, 2026: 64Aug 24, 2026: 65Aug 25, 2026: 64Aug 26, 2026: 64Aug 27, 2026: 64Aug 28, 2026: 65Aug 29, 2026: 65Aug 30, 2026: 65Aug 31, 2026: 64Sep 1, 2026: 64Sep 2, 2026: 66Sep 3, 2026: 67Sep 4, 2026: 66Sep 5, 2026: 66Sep 6, 2026: 66Sep 7, 2026: 66Sep 8, 2026: 65Sep 9, 2026: 64Sep 10, 2026: 64Sep 11, 2026: 66Sep 12, 2026: 65Sep 13, 2026: 66Sep 14, 2026: 65Sep 15, 2026: 65Sep 16, 2026: 63Sep 17, 2026: 63Sep 18, 2026: 64Sep 19, 2026: 64Sep 20, 2026: 64Sep 21, 2026: 63Sep 22, 2026: 63Sep 23, 2026: 64Sep 24, 2026: 65Sep 25, 2026: 64Sep 26, 2026: 65Sep 27, 2026: 65Sep 28, 2026: 63Sep 29, 2026: 62Sep 30, 2026: 61Oct 1, 2026: 62Oct 2, 2026: 64Oct 3, 2026: 64Oct 4, 2026: 64Oct 5, 2026: 63Oct 6, 2026: 62Oct 7, 2026: 61Oct 8, 2026: 62Oct 9, 2026: 61Oct 10, 2026: 61Oct 11, 2026: 61Oct 12, 2026: 62Oct 13, 2026: 62Oct 14, 2026: 61Oct 15, 2026: 63Oct 16, 2026: 64Oct 17, 2026: 64Oct 18, 2026: 64Oct 19, 2026: 63Oct 20, 2026: 65
Show the daily numbers
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Key facts

Market cap
$2.5B
Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Banks - Regional
Beta
0.74
Risk grade (1–10)
3
Next earnings
Oct 27, 2026

Banks - Regional peers

CompanyMarket capScore
CUBI Customers Bancorp$2.6B66
BBAR Banco BBVA Argentina$2.6B56
FBNC First Bancorp$2.5B62
FRME First Merchants$2.5B59
BANR Banner$2.5B59
SYBT Stock Yards Bancorp$2.4B68

Questions

What is BUSE's stock score today?

BUSE scores 65/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 20, 2026: technical 64, fundamental 66. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is BUSE a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 65 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the BUSE score calculated?

96 weighted scorers feed it today: 34 fundamental, scored against Financial Services ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.