# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000835324
**File Stem:** 0001104659-26-032689
**Filing Date:** 2026-3
**Character Count:** 2285
**Document Hash:** f4937723168fb0f18b6c9801818a8100
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001104659-26-032689.hdr.sgml**: 20260521

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-26-032689

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260320

**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:** CORRESP

**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

**STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.**

1040 East Main Street

Louisville, Kentucky 40206

March 20, 2026

***via EDGAR***

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attention: Aisha Adegbuyi

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| Re: | Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") |
|  | Request for Acceleration of Effectiveness |
|  | Form S-4 filed on March 9, 2026 |
|  | <u>Registration No. 333-294141</u> |

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Dear Ms. Adegbuyi:

In accordance with Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. hereby requests acceleration of the effectiveness of the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-4, as amended on March 20, 2026, to 4:00 p.m. (EDT) on March 24, 2026, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

Please contact our counsel, James A. Giesel of FBT Gibbons LLP, at (502) 568-0307 or <u>jgiesel@fbtgibbons.com</u> with any questions you may have concerning this letter, or if you require any additional information. Please notify Mr. Giesel when this request for acceleration of effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been granted.

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|:---|:---|
| Sincerely, | Sincerely, |
| STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC. | STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC. |
| By: | /s/ James A. Hillebrand |
|  | James A. Hillebrand |
|  | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |

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