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FIRST BUSEY CORP

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FIRST BUSEY CORP

BUSEP·NASDAQ·Financial Services·CIK 0000314489

First Busey Corporation is an $18.10 billion financial holding company, organized in Nevada in 1980 and headquartered in Leawood, Kansas. The company operates in banking and provides related financial services, asset management, brokerage, and fiduciary services through its subsidiary, Busey Bank. Additionally, it offers payment technology solutions through FirsTech. First Busey Corporation's common stock trades on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under "BUSE," and its Series B preferred stock trades under "BUSEP." Busey Bank, an Illinois state-chartered bank founded in 1868 and headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, operates 79 banking centers across 10 states. These include 50 in Illinois, nine in Missouri, four in Texas, three in Colorado, three in Florida, three in Kansas, three in Oklahoma, two in Arizona, one in Indiana, and one in New Mexico. Busey Bank provides diversified financial products and services to consumers and businesses, including online and mobile banking. Commercial services include commercial, CRE, real estate construction, and agricultural loans, alongside commercial depository services like cash management. Retail banking services encompass residential real estate, home equity lines of credit, consumer loans, demand and savings deposits, money transfers, safe deposit services, and individual retirement accounts and other fiduciary services, accessible through its banking centers, ATMs, and technology networks.

FIRST BUSEY CORP (NASDAQ:BUSEP) is a publicly traded company in the Financial Services sector. Wiseek has independently scored 1 item for BUSEP at importance 7 or higher on its 1–10 market-impact scale. Its most recent item scored 7 or higher is dated 2026-04-13, rated 7/10. Recent SEC coverage for BUSEP spans DEFR14A.

Recent high-impact activity:

  • Shareholders to Vote on Equity Plan with 5.0% Potential Dilution; Executive Compensation and Departures Detailed

Short Interest & Short Volume

1.28 days to cover

FINRA reported short interest of 9,680 shares in BUSEP as of the September 15, 2026 settlement, a 24.6% increase from the prior period — about 1.3 days to cover at its recent average daily volume. On October 2, 2026, 14.9% of BUSEP volume reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities was marked short.

Short interest (bi-monthly positions)9,680 shares as of September 15, 2026
Change vs prior period▲ 24.6%
Days to cover1.28 at avg daily volume of 7,545
Daily short volume (FINRA facilities)14.9% of 7,513 shares on October 2, 2026
5-day average short volume9.8%

Daily short sale volume covers trades reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities and is not the same as short interest (bi-monthly reported positions). Source: FINRA — FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data; it may not be redistributed.

$25.41 +0.07% today
52-week range · as of 2026-04-13 $24.7 – $26.65
Market cap
$2.46B
Volume
11.5K (1.2× avg)
3-mo avg 9.2K
Live data · 2026-10-04 19:48 UTC · Market closed

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BUSEP
Apr 13, 2026, 4:01 PM EDT
Filing Type: DEFR14A
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $25.70
Real-time Price: $25.41 info
Change: -$0.290 (-1%) info
Market Cap: $2.455B info
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