Stock Yards Bancorp

SYBT

Market cap $1.96B

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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBT), parent company of Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company, with offices in Louisville, central, eastern and northern Kentucky, as well as the Indianapolis, Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan markets, today announced that Michael W. Woods has joined the Company as Principal Accounting Officer effective immediately.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBT), parent company of Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company, with offices in Louisville, central, eastern and northern Kentucky, as well as the Indianapolis, Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan markets, today announced that Ja Hillebrand, Chairman and CEO and T. Clay Stinnett, EVP and CFO will participate in the Raymond James 2025 U.S. Bank and Banking on Tech Conferences to be held September 3rd through September 4th, and will participate in a series of one-on-one meetings with institutional investors.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBT), parent company of Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company, with offices in Louisville, central, eastern and northern Kentucky, as well as the Indianapolis, Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan markets, today announced that David L. Hardy has been appointed to the Boards of Directors for both the Company and the Bank effective October 21, 2025.

SYBT stock rises as investors react to its 3.2% dividend increase. Given decent liquidity, capital distribution seems sustainable.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 20, 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, announced that its Board of Directors increased its quarterly cash dividend to $0.32 per common share. The dividend will be paid on October 1, 2025, to stockholders of record as of September 15, 2025.

Stock Yards (SYBT) appears to have found support after losing some value lately, as indicated by the formation of a hammer chart. In addition to this technical chart pattern, strong agreement among Wall Street analysts in revising earnings estimates higher enhances the stock's potential for a turnaround in the near term.

The headline numbers for Stock Yards (SYBT) give insight into how the company performed in the quarter ended June 2025, but it may be worthwhile to compare some of its key metrics to Wall Street estimates and the year-ago actuals.

Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.15 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.05 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.94 per share a year ago.