Short interest in Business First Bancshares Inc (NASDAQ:BFST) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 230.50K to 198.85K. This put 0.71% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Business First Bancshares gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Business First Bancshares's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 140.51K shares traded per day, it would take 1.42 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.