STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $84.92, STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC. (SYBT) is priced for more than 15.8% return on equity. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 11, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Stock Yards Bancorp is a Louisville-based commercial bank with a genuine second engine: a Wealth Management & Trust group that posted record net new business in the first quarter while loans grew 9% year over year to $7.23 billion. [Source: Q1 2026 earnings release, April 2026] • The price pays about 2 times book, at the very top of the peer group, which assumes the bank keeps earning elite returns on equity for decades; it earns about 13% now, so the premium is durability, not a turnaround. •
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229 institutional managers reported holding SYBT in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 63% of the company; the top 10 hold 38%. 20 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 1.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (9 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
SYBT's share count grew 21.7% over the past five years even with $10.28M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting), raised 8 years straight; the current rate is $1.26 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $99.99M in dividends and $7.90M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at SYBT over the trailing three years: 2023: 2 buys totaling $12k; 2024: 2 buys totaling $46k; 2025: 2 buys totaling $140k. 20 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
SYBT's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-07 | +3.7% | +16.1% |
| 2022-08-06 | +4.2% | +1.0% |
| 2022-11-05 | +2.4% | -15.9% |
| 2023-02-25 | -2.4% | -16.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
SYBT's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-01 (items 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-27 (items 1.01, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 11, 2026
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