Short interest in Business First Bancshares Inc (NASDAQ:BFST) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 133.48K to 254.38K. This put 0.91% 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 133.35K shares traded per day, it would take 1.91 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.