Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.
SYBTHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYStock Yards Bancorp, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Regional Banking.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
N/A
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
0/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
70
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $59M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 35d
- 234 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- Control-process language
- 1 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 1 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 1 activism filings
- Latest activism 3.3y ago; discounted
- Control-process filings
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 1 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 4 auditor changes
- 1 NT late filing
- Latest event 11mo ago
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 234 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $2.5B
- 10-Q 35d ago
- 5 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $25M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | 1 | $25M | $25M | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Geographic Expansion50%
- Platform50%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- platform
- bolt_on
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“The completion of our acquisition of Kentucky Bancshares during the second quarter of 2021 expanded our footprint into central and eastern Kentucky, providing broader product offerings, increased lending capabilities and a larger branch delivery system to our new customers in these markets.”
“Our acquisition of CB in the first quarter of 2022 has helped build upon our market share in our home market of Louisville, Kentucky, while also expanding our presence in neighboring Shelby County, Kentucky, as well as northern Kentucky.”
“Bancorp operates in a highly competitive industry that could become even more so as a result of earnings pressure of peer organizations, legislative, regulatory and technological changes and continued consolidation.”
“We operate in a highly competitive industry that could become even more so as a result of earnings pressure from peer organizations, legislative, regulatory and technological changes and continued consolidation.”
“Focusing on these relationships and our community banking model has been essential to the success of our recent acquisitions.”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Regional Banking
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $245.7B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $72.8B
- Recent vs prior
- +238%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
SYBT trades at a +1.5-turn premium to the Regional Banking peer median of 12.3×.
- EV / Revenue
- 4.5×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -1.2×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.3×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16.7× | 3.7× | -0.9× | $13.7B | $12.7B | |
| 13.9× | 3.0× | -0.7× | $58.4B | $126.1B | |
Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.SYBT | 13.7× | 4.5× | -1.2× | $571M | N/A |
| 10.7× | 3.2× | -2.1× | $3.4B | $7B | |
| 9.3× | 2.2× | -0.3× | $14.5B | $72.6B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Regional Banking. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Buyer landscape.
Public buyers whose stated archetypes, target categories, and recent cadence align with this issuer as a plausible acquisition target. Scores cross EDGAR signal and disclosure overlap.
Likely buyers
No public buyers surface as a strong target-side fit on current signal.
Likely sellers / divestiture partners
No reciprocal divestiture / strategic-alternatives matches identified.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)302026-02-26
- 10-Q (quarterly)912026-05-05
- 8-K (event)2342026-05-01
- Proxy / DEF 14A392026-03-12
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)12023-03-01
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2025-07-094 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2018-03-021 NT 10-K/10-Q filing on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
2023-03-011 activist filing on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Recent transaction activity
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.