BUSEP Stock — First Busey Corporation

First Busey Corporation (BUSEP)

Updated October 16, 2026.

BUSEP is a Stock. its distribution rate is 8.10%, its trailing-12-month yield is 8.10%. Dividend Vision Distribution Safety Score™ is 50/100 (Unproven). Total return is 13.4% over the past 1.4 years, 18.7 points behind SPY at 32.1%.

First Busey Corporation operates as a bank holding company providing retail and commercial banking, wealth management, and payment technology services to individual, corporate, institutional, and governmental customers across the United States. The company offers deposit products, various loan types including residential real estate and commercial lending, trust and fiduciary services, asset management, and electronic payment solutions through its Banking, Wealth Management, and FirsTech segments. As an equity security, it does not have a set distribution frequency or expense ratio.

BUSEP performance versus SPY

Price and return data through 2026-10-16.

Total return is 13.4% over the past 1.4 years, 18.7 points behind SPY at 32.1%. Its deepest 1-year drawdown was 4.0%.

BUSEP key facts

Distribution Safety Score™

50 · Unproven

Asset type

Stock

Asset class

Equity

Inception date

05/14/2025

Distribution rate

8.10%

Distribution frequency

Quarterly

Trailing yield

8.10%

Last close

$25.45 (as of 2026-10-16)

Average volume

2418.0

Dividend

$0.51563

Ex-dividend date

08/17/2026

Payment date

09/01/2026

Beta

0.743

Payout ratio

1.7%

How Dividend Vision calculates yield and returns

Distribution rate (8.10%) uses calculation basis unavailable. Issuer rates can use a different denominator and date, including ex-date NAV. Trailing-12-month yield (8.10%) is the sum of split-adjusted cash distributions with ex-dates in the last 12 months, divided by the published price. It lags a recent raise or cut. Total return uses split-adjusted close with distributions reinvested on the ex-dividend date (a modeling convention, not the cash-settlement date) from the first stored bar on or after inception through the latest bar, compared with the same window on the benchmark. That is the security's total return, not your personal gain/loss.

Yield and safety methodology · Distribution rate methodology · Distribution Safety Score methodology

Sources and review

Primary sources: prices and distributions from Dividend Vision, derived from vendor EOD data.

Reviewed by Bert Sweet, CEO and Co-owner of Dividend Vision. Methodology: Distribution Safety Score.

BUSEP risks and drawbacks

Payments are quarterly, so cash flow is lumpy versus a monthly fund. Total return has trailed SPY over the available window. The deepest 1-year drawdown on record here is 4.0%.

Who may consider BUSEP — and who may not

It is a weaker fit for investors who need monthly cash flow (BUSEP pays quarterly); investors whose main goal is matching SPY total return. This is educational context, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

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