Stock Yds Bancorp Inc SEC Filings

Insider transaction summary for Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT). Director John Schutte reported a sale of 82,940 shares of common stock and a purchase of 63 shares at $76.54 on 09/18/2025. After these transactions he beneficially owned 8,319 shares indirectly through a trust or deferred compensation plan. He also holds a direct stock appreciation right exercisable into 1,000 shares that expires on 08/28/2028. The Form 4 was signed by a power of attorney on 09/22/2025.

Michael W. Woods, Senior Vice President of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (SYBT), acquired 1,000 shares of the issuer's common stock on 09/03/2025 as a Restricted Stock Award that vests over five years. The Form 4 reports the transaction as an acquisition, leaving Mr. Woods with 1,000 shares beneficially owned following the grant. The filing was executed via power of attorney and dated 09/04/2025. No derivative transactions or additional cash prices are reported in this Form 4.

Michael W. Woods filed an Initial Statement of Beneficial Ownership (Form 3) reporting his relationship to Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (SYBT) as a Senior Vice President and officer/director. The filing, dated 09/02/2025 with signature on 09/03/2025, states no securities are beneficially owned by the reporting person.

Stock Yards Bancorp appointed Michael W. Woods as Senior Vice President and Principal Accounting Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Woods is a Certified Public Accountant with over 25 years of financial reporting and internal control experience and previously served as SVP and Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer at Old National Bancorp. He will oversee general accounting, SEC and regulatory reporting, the Bank's treasury function, and budgeting. His compensation package includes a $240,000 base salary, an annual cash incentive bonus opportunity up to 30% of base salary, stock awards up to 20% of base salary, an initial grant of 1,000 restricted shares vesting over five years, and a double-trigger change-in-control severance of one times base salary plus historic bonus. The prior Principal Accounting Officer, T. Clay Stinnett, will step down from that specific role but remain Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Form 144 notice for Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (SYBT): An insider filed to sell 2,162 common shares through Raymond James with an approximate aggregate market value of $180,521, planned for 08/27/2025 on NASDAQ. The shares represent a small fraction of the company's outstanding common stock of 29,473,300 shares. The shares were acquired via stock appreciation rights (SARs) on 02/08/2007 (1,335 shares) and 02/12/2012 (827 shares) and were to be settled by cashless exercise. The filer reports no sales in the past three months and includes the required representation that they are unaware of undisclosed material adverse information.

James A. Hillebrand, Chairman & CEO and a director of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (SYBT), reported multiple equity transactions on 08/26/2025 and 08/27/2025. The filing shows a market purchase of 7,571 common shares at $40.00 on 08/26/2025 and two dispositions: 5,409 shares sold at $82.90 on 08/26/2025 and 2,162 shares sold at $83.32 on 08/27/2025. After these transactions the report lists 107,292 shares beneficially owned.

The report also discloses several stock appreciation rights (SARs) exercisable into common shares with various exercise prices and expirations, including SARs for 7,423; 25,000; 12,254; 14,482; 8,615; 10,142; 9,855; 11,788; and 9,210 underlying shares at stated exercise prices and expiration dates. The filing notes dividend reinvestment as a source of some shares.

Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. announced that on August 19, 2025 its board appointed David L. Hardy, age 60, to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of David Heintzman. The appointment becomes effective at the start of the board's next regularly scheduled meeting on October 21, 2025. Upon appointment, Mr. Hardy is expected to serve on the Company’s audit committee and, simultaneously, as a director of Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company, where he is expected to serve on the Bank’s trust committee. Mr. Hardy has been Managing Director for CBRE’s Kentucky operations since 2005 and has advised Louisville office property clients since 1988. There are no arrangements or reportable transactions related to his selection, and his cash and stock compensation will follow the Company’s existing non-employee director plan described in the proxy statement filed March 12, 2025.

Stephen M. Priebe, a director of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (SYBT), reported an open-market acquisition of 73 shares of the issuer's common stock on 08/21/2025 at a reported price of $77.05 per share. After the transaction he is shown as beneficially owning 32,209 shares indirectly. The filing also reports a disposition of 4,885 shares held in the Trust-Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan.

Paul J. Bickel III, a director of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (SYBT), reported the purchase of 73 shares of common stock on 08/21/2025 at $77.05 per share. After the transaction he beneficially owned 14,846 shares indirectly held in a trust, plus additional indirect holdings of 9,175 shares in an irrevocable trust and 580 shares held in a GST exempt trust. The filing also discloses a stock appreciation right with a $38.30 exercise price covering 1,000 underlying common shares that is held directly and expires 01/16/2028. The Form 4 was signed by Donna Cleek under power of attorney on 08/22/2025.