Company: SYBT
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-007118
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Company: Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
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<div align='center'>GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ANNUAL MEETING</div>

About This Proxy Statement

This Proxy Statement is being furnished to the shareholders of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. in connection with the solicitation by its Board of Directors of proxies to be used at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. This Proxy Statement includes information regarding the matters to be acted upon at the 2025 Annual Meeting and certain other information required by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or “SEC”, and the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market, or “Nasdaq”. This Proxy Statement is first being sent or made available to shareholders on or about March 12, 2025.

Throughout this Proxy Statement, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms“Stock Yards Bancorp”,“Bancorp”,“the Company”,“we”,“us”or“our”all refer to Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. and its direct and indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries, including Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company, which we refer to in this Proxy Statement as“the Bank”. Because Stock Yards Bancorp has no significant operations of its own, its business and that of Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company are essentially the same.

Proxy Materials

Why have I received these materials?

We have made these proxy materials available to you over the Internet in connection with our 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which will be held on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time. As a shareholder, you are invited to participate in the meeting via live webcast and vote on the matters described in this Proxy Statement.

What is included in the proxy materials?

These proxy materials include:

| ● | The Notice of the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders; |

| ● | This Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting; and |

If you requested and received a paper copy of these materials by mail, the proxy materials also include a proxy card or a voting instruction form for the Annual Meeting. If you received a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, which we refer to as the “Notice”, instead of a paper copy of the proxy materials, see “How can I access the proxy materials and vote my shares”below for information regarding how you can vote your shares.

What is a proxy?

We are soliciting your proxy to vote the shares of the Company’s common stock that you own at the Annual Meeting. A proxy is your designation of another person to