BUSE Historical PE Ratio Notes

— First Busey Corporation (ticker: BUSE) is a financial holding company headquartered in Illinois, primarily engaged in providing a range of banking, wealth management, and payment processing services through its subsidiary Busey Bank. Serving individuals, small businesses, and corporate clients across Illinois, Missouri, Florida, and Indiana, First Busey operates in the regional banking sector, which tends to be strongly influenced by local economic conditions, interest rates, and credit quality trends. When you review historical price, earnings, and P/E ratio data for BUSE, keep in mind that the company's P/E ratio reflects not just its reported profits, but also investor sentiment regarding the stability and growth outlook of its lending, deposit, and fee-based activities. Periods of economic uncertainty or changes in interest rates can greatly impact both earnings and the multiples investors are willing to pay for bank stocks like BUSE. A historically low P/E might indicate periods when earnings were under pressure or when investors were concerned about credit risks. Conversely, a higher P/E may reflect either strong earnings growth or optimism about the company’s future prospects. Understanding these business drivers is key as you interpret BUSE’s historical valuation metrics.

On this page we presented the First Busey Historical PE Ratio information for First Busey' stock. The average BUSE historical PE based on using the annualized quarterly earnings result at each measurement period (for the "E" in the PE calculation; and the closing price on earnings date as the "P") is 13.5. Meanwhile, using the trailing twelve month (TTM) quarterly earnings result as our method of calculation the "E" value at each measurement period, the average BUSE historical PE based on this TTM earnings result method is 13.7.

Let's now compare this BUSE historical PE result, against the recent PE: when this page was posted on 5/6/2026, the most recent closing price for BUSE had been 26.73, and the most recent quarterly earnings result, annualized, was 2.68. Meanwhile, the most recent TTM earnings summed to 2.62. From these numbers, we calculate the recent BUSE PE on 5/6/2026 based on annualized quarterly EPS was 10.0. Based on BUSE's history, that recent PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 25.9% lower than the historical average PE across our data set for First Busey. Looking at the recent BUSE PE on 5/6/2026 based on TTM EPS, we calculate the ratio at 10.2. Based on BUSE's history, that recent PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 25.5% lower than the average PE across our First Busey data set with TTM EPS used in the calculation at each period.

Another interesting BUSE historical PE Ratio calculation we look at is to take the median earnings per share of the last four quarters for BUSE, and then annualize the resulting value... with that annualized number then being used in the PE calculation. To walk through this math for BUSE, we start with the past four EPS numbers and we first sort them from lowest to highest: 0.63, 0.64, 0.67, and 0.68. We then toss out the highest and lowest result, and then take the average of those two middle numbers — 0.64 and 0.67 — which gives us the median of 0.66. Basically the way to think about this 0.66 number is this: for the trailing four earnings reports, 0.66 marks the "middle ground" number where BUSE has reported a value higher than 0.66 half the time, and has reported a value lower than 0.66 half the time. Annualizing that median value then gets us to 2.64/share, which we use as the denominator in our next PE calculation. With 26.73 as the numerator (as of 5/6/2026), the calculation is then 26.73 / 2.64 = 10.1 as the BUSE PE ratio as of 5/6/2026, based on that annualized median value we calculated.

For self directed investors doing their due diligence on BUSE or any other given stock, valuation analysis for BUSE can greatly benefit from studying the past earnings and resulting PE calculations. This exercise can help inform an analysis as to whether the past earnings trajectory and current versus historical PE ratios justify the current stock value.

That's why we bring you HistoricalPERatio.com to make it easy for investors to investigate First Busey PE history or the past PE information for any stock in our coverage universe. And in your continued research we hope you will be sure to check out the further links included for earnings surprises history (beat/miss data) as well as next earnings dates for BUSE. Thanks for visiting, and the next time you need to research BUSE Historical PE Ratio or the ratio for another stock, we hope you'll think of our site, as your go-to historical PE ratio research resource of choice.