Stock Yards Bancorp Named to Piper Sandler Sm-All Stars: Class of 2025 List for Small-Cap Banks
Stock Yards Bancorp (NASDAQ: SYBT) was named one of 24 “Sm-All Stars” in Piper Sandler’s Class of 2025, recognizing top-performing small-cap banks and thrifts based on growth, profitability, credit quality, and capital strength.
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Stock Yards Bancorp (NASDAQ: SYBT) was named one of 24 “Sm-All Stars” in Piper Sandler’s Class of 2025, recognizing top-performing small-cap banks and thrifts based on growth, profitability, credit quality, and capital strength. The company, parent of Stock Yards Bank & Trust, operates in Louisville and markets across central, eastern and northern Kentucky, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.
Stock Yards has been included on the Sm-All Stars list seven times (2008, 2011, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025) and reported $9.31 billion in assets. The company’s common shares trade on NASDAQ under the symbol SYBT.
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News Market Reaction – SYBT
On Dec 5, the day this news came out, SYBT closed 0.42% below the previous close.
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Key Figures
- Piper Sandler Sm-All Stars
- 24 banks
- SYBT is one of only 24 banks named to 2025 list
- Sm-All Stars inclusions
- 7 times
- Recognized in 2008, 2011, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025
- Total assets
- $9.31 billion
- Stock Yards Bancorp asset base cited in release
- Incorporation year
- 1988
- Year Stock Yards Bancorp was incorporated as a bank holding company
- Bank founding year
- 1904
- Year Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company was established
Historical Context
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New Bowling Green Market President with deep local banking experience.
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Quarterly cash dividend of $0.32 per common share declared.
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Record Q3 2025 net income of $36.2M and EPS of $1.23.
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Appointment of experienced Principal Accounting Officer to strengthen finance.
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Participation in Raymond James 2025 U.S. Bank and Banking on Tech conferences.
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Regional community bank ranks among top performers nationwide as analyzed by Piper Sandler
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBT), parent company of Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company, with offices in the Louisville, central, eastern and northern Kentucky, as well as the Indianapolis, Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan markets, is one of only 24 banks in the U.S. to be named a “Sm-All Star” in Piper Sandler’s annual list of top-performing small-cap banks and thrifts. Piper Sandler, an independent investment bank and research firm, analyzed banks and thrifts nationwide to select the “Class of 2025.” This elite annual list reflects the top banks and thrifts in the industry across a number of metrics including growth, profitability, credit quality and capital strength.
“Being named among the nation's top performing community banks by Piper Sandler is a powerful validation of our strategy and momentum,” said James A. (Ja) Hillebrand, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “This distinction highlights the exceptional effort and commitment of the entire Stock Yards team.”
Stock Yards Bancorp has been named to Piper Sandler’s Sm-All Stars list seven times in 2008, 2011, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025.
Louisville, Kentucky-based Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc., with
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