BFC Bank First Corporation — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates
Bank First Corporation, established in 1894 and headquartered in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, functions as the parent entity for Bank First N.A. This financial institution delivers a comprehensive array of consumer and commercial financial solutions throughout Wisconsin, catering to a diverse clientele including businesses, professionals, individuals, associations, and governmental bodies. Its product suite encompasses various deposit accounts such as checking, savings, money market, retirement, and health savings accounts, alongside certificates of deposit and other time deposit options. It also provides residential mortgage products. Beyond core banking, Bank First offers credit cards, ATM services, insurance, data and information technology processing, investment and safekeeping services, and treasury management. Customers can also access their finances through online, telephone, and mobile banking platforms. The company's lending portfolio is extensive, covering various needs. It includes real estate financing, such as commercial property loans, residential mortgages, and home equity loans. For businesses, it provides commercial and industrial loans designed for working capital, accounts receivable and inventory financing, and other operational requirements. Further loan types include construction and development financing, residential loans for 1-4 family properties, and a range of consumer loans for personal and household use, offering both secured and unsecured installment loans as well as revolving lines of credit. Bank First Corporation operates through 21 branches situated across nine Wisconsin counties: Manitowoc, Outagamie, Brown, Winnebago, Sheboygan, Waupaca, Ozaukee, Monroe, and Jefferson. The company adopted its current name, Bank First Corporation, in June 2019, having previously operated as Bank First National Corporation.
Dividend Snapshot
Research Scores
Scores describe this security's published financial data on a 0–100 scale using the formulas on our methodology pages. They are the same for every reader, are not a probability or a forecast, and are not a recommendation. Past dividend growth does not guarantee future increases. Report a data error.
How the Dividend Safety Score is built for BFC
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend record | 13 years of uninterrupted regular payments | 74 | 25% |
| Earnings stability | Net income positive in 5 of the last 5 fiscal years (FY2021–FY2025) | 100 | 15% |
| Earnings payout ratio | Earnings payout ratio 25% (TTM to Jun 30, 2026) | 100 | 30% |
| Equity / assets | Equity / assets 13.9% (balance sheet Sep 30, 2026) | 100 | 20% |
| Return on assets | Return on assets 1.57% (TTM to Jun 30, 2026; average total assets) | 100 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: bank. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
How the Dividend Growth Score is built for BFC
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-year dividend growth | 5-year dividend CAGR 17.3% (2020–2025) | 100 | 25% |
| Consecutive annual increases | 11 consecutive annual increases (through 2025) | 81 | 20% |
| Payout headroom | Headroom from the earnings payout ratio 25% (TTM to Jun 30, 2026) | 100 | 20% |
| Earnings per share growth (3 years) | EPS CAGR 9.1% (FY2022–FY2025) | 96 | 15% |
| 10-year dividend growth | 10-year dividend CAGR 13.4% (2015–2025) | 100 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: bank. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
How the Dividend Value Score is built for BFC
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yield vs own history | Current yield at the 70th percentile of its 120 month-end yields | 70 | 45% |
| P/B vs own 5-year median | P/B 2.0 is 1.20x its 5-year median of 1.7 | 26 | 30% |
| P/B vs peers | P/B 2.0 vs peer median 1.4 (1.46x; 118 bank / Financial Services securities) | 10 | 25% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: bank. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
Key Metrics
Current Yield
1.76%
At the Oct 29, 2026 price
The annual dividend as a percentage of the share price. A 3% yield is about $3 of dividends a year for every $100 invested at today's price.Annualized Dividend
$2.6000
Declared Oct 20, 2026
The latest declared regular dividend scaled to a full year by how often it's paid (for semi-annual payers, the latest two payments), adjusted for stock splits. A $0.25 quarterly dividend annualizes to $1.00. Special dividends are excluded.Frequency
Q Quarterly
How often the dividend is paid, read from the dates of recent payments: Q = quarterly (4x a year), M = monthly, S = semi-annual, A = annual.RSI (14)
49
As of Oct 29, 2026
Relative Strength Index (0-100), a price-momentum gauge. Above 70 is often called 'overbought', below 30 'oversold'. A technical signal, not a dividend metric.52-Week Range
$119.08 – $158.42
Closes through Oct 23, 2026
The lowest and highest price over the past year, showing where today's price sits in its recent range.Payout Ratio (TTM)
23.67%
12 months to Sep 30, 2026 (Q3 FY2026)
The share of earnings paid out as dividends over the trailing twelve months (TTM): dividends paid divided by net income across the company's four most recent reported quarters, dated by the latest quarter end. A fiscal-year tag such as FY2025 means only annual figures were available. Lower leaves more cushion; above 100% means paying out more than the company earned. It shows n/a for funds and when net income over the period was negative; for REITs and BDCs it is marked EPS-based, since they are judged on FFO/AFFO or net investment income instead.Years Paying
16
How many years of payments we have on record. This can understate very long histories where our data doesn't reach far enough back.Price / Book (TTM)
1.98
Price as of Oct 25, 2026; latest reported book value
Price-to-book ratio: the share price on the date shown divided by the latest reported book value per share. A rough valuation gauge, most useful for asset-heavy sectors like REITs, banks and insurers.S.A.F.E. Dividend Read
Quote & Key Data
Dividend Growth
How often a record like this ends in a cut
BFC has raised its annual dividend in 12 separate years since November 2010, which ranks 932 among the 2,430 payers with a comparable record in our dataset. No year in that span saw the annual total fall by more than a fifth.
Of the 878 companies we track with 10 to 24 years of increases, 661 — 75 per cent — also have at least one year in which the dividend fell by more than 20 per cent. Across every company with twenty years of comparable history, only 277 of 1078 (26 per cent) have never cut. A long record of increases is common; a record with no cut anywhere in it is not.
Measured from annual totals using split-adjusted amounts, comparing only consecutive years with the same number of payments — a stock split and a payment shifting across a year boundary both look like cuts otherwise. The current year is excluded as incomplete. How we measure a cut, and what the corrections change. Figures are for information only, not a view on any security.
Why the Yield Moved (90 Days)
BFC's dividend yield rose from 1.55% to 1.76% over the past ~90 days (+0.21 pp). Of that move, +0.14 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and +0.08 pp from the share price ($155.29 on Aug 03, 2026 → $147.88 on Oct 29, 2026). A yield that rises because the price fell is not an improvement in the payout itself.
Yield vs Its Own History
Across 272 daily observations over the past 13 months (through Oct 23, 2026), BFC's current yield is higher than approximately 99% of them. Our stored price history for BFC covers the past 13 months; 3- and 5-year averages are not yet computable from it and are deliberately not shown.
Adjusted Price History
Dividend History
Dividend Payment History
Ex-dividend calendar →| Amount | Type | Declared | Ex-Date | Record | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.6500 Q | Regular upcoming, declared | Oct 20, 2026 | Dec 23, 2026 | Dec 23, 2026 | Jan 06, 2027 |
| $0.6000 Q | Regular | Jul 21, 2026 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 23, 2026 | Oct 07, 2026 |
| $0.5500 Q | Regular | Apr 16, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | Jul 08, 2026 |
| $0.5000 Q | Regular | Jan 22, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | Apr 08, 2026 |
| $0.4500 Q | Regular | Oct 21, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | Jan 07, 2026 |
| $0.4500 Q | Regular | Jul 15, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | Oct 08, 2025 |
| $0.4500 Q | Regular | Apr 15, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | Jul 09, 2025 |
| $3.5000 S | Special | Apr 25, 2025 | May 09, 2025 | May 09, 2025 | May 16, 2025 |
| $0.4500 Q | Regular | Jan 21, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | Apr 09, 2025 |
| $0.4500 Q | Regular | Oct 15, 2024 | Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 23, 2024 | Jan 06, 2025 |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | Jul 16, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | Oct 09, 2024 |
| $0.3500 Q | Regular | Apr 16, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | Jul 10, 2024 |
| $0.3500 Q | Regular | Jan 16, 2024 | Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | Apr 10, 2024 |
| $0.3000 Q | Regular | Oct 17, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 10, 2024 |
| $0.3000 Q | Regular | Jul 18, 2023 | Sep 19, 2023 | Sep 20, 2023 | Oct 04, 2023 |
| $0.3000 Q | Regular | Apr 18, 2023 | Jun 20, 2023 | Jun 21, 2023 | Jul 05, 2023 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | Jan 17, 2023 | Mar 21, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 | Apr 05, 2023 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | Oct 18, 2022 | Dec 20, 2022 | Dec 21, 2022 | Jan 04, 2023 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | Jul 19, 2022 | Sep 20, 2022 | Sep 21, 2022 | Oct 05, 2022 |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | Apr 19, 2022 | Jun 21, 2022 | Jun 22, 2022 | Jul 06, 2022 |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | Jan 18, 2022 | Mar 22, 2022 | Mar 23, 2022 | Apr 06, 2022 |
| $0.2200 S | Regular | Oct 19, 2021 | Dec 21, 2021 | Dec 22, 2021 | Jan 05, 2022 |
| $0.5000 S | Regular | Jul 20, 2021 | Sep 21, 2021 | Sep 22, 2021 | Oct 06, 2021 |
| $0.2100 Q | Regular | Apr 20, 2021 | Jun 22, 2021 | Jun 23, 2021 | Jul 07, 2021 |
| $0.2100 Q | Regular | Jan 19, 2021 | Mar 23, 2021 | Mar 24, 2021 | Apr 07, 2021 |
| $0.2100 Q | Regular | Oct 20, 2020 | Dec 22, 2020 | Dec 23, 2020 | Jan 06, 2021 |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | Jul 22, 2020 | Sep 22, 2020 | Sep 23, 2020 | Oct 07, 2020 |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | Apr 22, 2020 | Jun 22, 2020 | Jun 23, 2020 | Jul 08, 2020 |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | Jan 21, 2020 | Mar 20, 2020 | Mar 23, 2020 | Apr 07, 2020 |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | Oct 15, 2019 | Dec 20, 2019 | Dec 23, 2019 | Jan 07, 2020 |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | Jul 16, 2019 | Sep 23, 2019 | Sep 24, 2019 | Oct 08, 2019 |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | Apr 16, 2019 | Jun 21, 2019 | Jun 24, 2019 | Jul 08, 2019 |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | Jan 23, 2019 | Mar 22, 2019 | Mar 25, 2019 | Apr 08, 2019 |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | Oct 16, 2018 | Dec 20, 2018 | Dec 21, 2018 | Jan 07, 2019 |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | Jul 18, 2018 | Sep 20, 2018 | Sep 21, 2018 | Oct 05, 2018 |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | Apr 17, 2018 | Jun 28, 2018 | Jun 29, 2018 | Jul 06, 2018 |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | Jan 17, 2018 | Mar 27, 2018 | Mar 28, 2018 | Apr 04, 2018 |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | Oct 18, 2017 | Dec 27, 2017 | Dec 28, 2017 | Jan 04, 2018 |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | Jul 19, 2017 | Sep 25, 2017 | Sep 26, 2017 | Oct 03, 2017 |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | Apr 21, 2017 | Jun 27, 2017 | Jun 29, 2017 | Jul 06, 2017 |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | Jan 24, 2017 | Mar 24, 2017 | Mar 28, 2017 | Apr 04, 2017 |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | Oct 20, 2016 | Dec 23, 2016 | Dec 28, 2016 | Jan 04, 2017 |
| $0.1500 Q | Regular | Jul 21, 2016 | Sep 26, 2016 | Sep 28, 2016 | Oct 05, 2016 |
| $0.1400 Q | Regular | Apr 22, 2016 | Jun 27, 2016 | Jun 29, 2016 | Jul 06, 2016 |
| $0.1400 Q | Regular | Jan 22, 2016 | Mar 21, 2016 | Mar 23, 2016 | Apr 06, 2016 |
| $0.1300 Q | Regular | Oct 22, 2015 | Dec 21, 2015 | Dec 23, 2015 | Jan 06, 2016 |
| $0.1300 Q | Regular | Jul 22, 2015 | Sep 16, 2015 | Sep 18, 2015 | Oct 02, 2015 |
| $0.1300 Q | Regular | Apr 22, 2015 | Jun 17, 2015 | Jun 19, 2015 | Jul 03, 2015 |
| $0.1200 Q | Regular | Jan 22, 2015 | Mar 18, 2015 | Mar 20, 2015 | Apr 03, 2015 |
| $0.1200 Q | Regular | Oct 21, 2014 | Jan 07, 2015 | Jan 09, 2015 | Jan 16, 2015 |
| $0.1200 Q | Regular | Jul 15, 2014 | Sep 17, 2014 | Sep 19, 2014 | Oct 03, 2014 |
| $0.1100 Q | Regular | Apr 15, 2014 | Jun 18, 2014 | Jun 20, 2014 | Jul 07, 2014 |
| $0.1100 Q | Regular | Jan 22, 2014 | Mar 19, 2014 | Mar 21, 2014 | Apr 04, 2014 |
| $0.1100 Q | Regular | Oct 15, 2013 | Dec 18, 2013 | Dec 20, 2013 | Jan 03, 2014 |
| $0.1100 S | Regular | Jul 16, 2013 | Sep 18, 2013 | Sep 20, 2013 | Oct 04, 2013 |
| $0.1100 Q | Regular | Oct 16, 2012 | Dec 05, 2012 | Dec 07, 2012 | Dec 14, 2012 |
| $0.1100 Q | Regular | Jul 17, 2012 | Sep 05, 2012 | Sep 07, 2012 | Sep 14, 2012 |
| $0.1100 Q | Regular | Apr 17, 2012 | May 30, 2012 | Jun 01, 2012 | Jun 08, 2012 |
| $0.1100 Q | Regular | Jan 17, 2012 | Feb 29, 2012 | Mar 02, 2012 | Mar 09, 2012 |
| $0.1050 Q | Regular | N/A | Nov 22, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1050 Q | Regular | Jul 19, 2011 | Sep 09, 2011 | Aug 26, 2011 | N/A |
| $0.1050 Q | Regular | Apr 19, 2011 | May 25, 2011 | May 27, 2011 | Jun 10, 2011 |
| $0.1050 Q | Regular | Jan 20, 2011 | Feb 23, 2011 | Feb 25, 2011 | Mar 11, 2011 |
| $0.1050 Q | Regular | Oct 22, 2010 | Nov 24, 2010 | Nov 29, 2010 | Dec 10, 2010 |
Peer Comparison
Selected Banks - Regional dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.
| Ticker | Name | Yield | 5-Yr Growth | Streak | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FCNCB | First Citizens BancShares, Inc. | 0.50% | 36.6% | 9 yrs | 89 |
| PB | Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. | 3.60% | 4.6% | 24 yrs | 86 |
| CBSH | Commerce Bancshares, Inc. | 2.00% | 5.1% | 35 yrs | 85 |
| NECB | Northeast Community Bancorp, Inc. | 3.49% | 44.3% | 2 yrs | 84 |
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BFC dividend — frequently asked questions
Does Bank First Corporation pay a dividend?
Yes. Bank First Corporation (BFC) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $2.60 per share, a yield of approximately 1.76%.
What is Bank First Corporation's dividend yield?
Bank First Corporation's dividend yield is approximately 1.76%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.
How often does Bank First Corporation pay dividends?
Bank First Corporation pays dividends quarterly — 4 times per year.
When is Bank First Corporation's next ex-dividend date?
The next declared ex-dividend date for Bank First Corporation is December 23, 2026. The associated payment is $0.6500 per share; you must own the shares before the ex-dividend date to receive it.
How long has Bank First Corporation paid dividends?
Bank First Corporation has 16 years of dividend payments on record, and has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
Data updated Oct 29, 2026. This research page is generated from Dividendly's structured market and dividend dataset using the approach described on our methodology and data sources pages. Data is automatically validated using defined rules and may also be periodically reviewed. Research only, not investment advice. Spotted a data error? Report it.