# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000835324
**File Stem:** 0001437749-25-022385
**Filing Date:** 2025-7
**Character Count:** 5567
**Document Hash:** 7b5c14e51263bcc1b2876b6f78591752
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001437749-25-022385.hdr.sgml**: 20250709

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001437749-25-022385

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250708

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250709

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250709

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000835324
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 611137529
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** KY
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-13661
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251112319

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1040 E MAIN ST
- **CITY:** LOUISVILLE
- **STATE:** KY
- **ZIP:** 40206
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 5025822571

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1040 EAST MAIN STREET
- **CITY:** LOUISVILLE
- **STATE:** KY
- **ZIP:** 40206

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** S Y BANCORP INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19920703

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| **UNITED STATES** |
| **SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** |
| Washington, D.C. 20549 |

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**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT**

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 8, 2025

**STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| <u>Kentucky</u> | <u>001-13661</u> | <u>61-1137529</u> |
| (State or other jurisdiction of<br> incorporation or organization) | (Commission File Number) | (I.R.S. Employer<br> Identification No.) |

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<u>1040 East Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 40206</u>

(Address of principal executive offices)

<u>(502) 582-2571</u>

(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered |
| Common stock, no par value | SYBT | The NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter). &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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**Item 4.01. Engagement of New Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.**

(b) On July 8, 2025, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors (the "Audit Committee") of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") approved the engagement of BDO USA, P.C. ("BDO") as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, effective beginning with the review of the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements for the quarter ending June 30, 2025. The Audit Committee's appointment of BDO marks the conclusion of the Company's previously disclosed strategic request-for-proposal process, which solicited proposals from accounting firms to provide audit services to the Company as its independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

During the Company's two most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, and during the subsequent interim period through March 31, 2025, neither the Company nor anyone on its behalf has consulted with BDO regarding either (1) the application of accounting principles to a specific transaction, completed or proposed, or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company's consolidated financial statements, and neither a written report nor oral advice was provided to the Company that BDO concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to any accounting, auditing, or financial reporting issue, or (2) any matter that was either the subject of a "disagreement" (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K) or a "reportable event" (as described in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).

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**SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|  | **STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.** | **STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.** |
| Dated: July 9, 2025 | By: | <u>/s/ T. Clay Stinnett</u> <br> T. Clay Stinnett, Executive Vice President,<br> Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer |

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