---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-022385"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SYBT"
cik: "0000835324"
company_name: "Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T08:59:27.514362+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stock Yards Bancorp appoints BDO USA as new independent auditor for FY2025

## Summary
- Audit Committee approved BDO USA, P.C. as independent auditor for fiscal year ending Dec 31, 2025, effective Q2 2025 review.
- Appointment follows a previously disclosed strategic request-for-proposal process for audit services.
- No consultations with BDO on accounting principles or audit opinions in prior two fiscal years or interim period.
- No disagreements or reportable events with former auditor were identified in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-022385
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SYBT
- cik: 0000835324
- company_name: Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/835324/000143774925022385/0001437749-25-022385-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/835324/000143774925022385/sybt20250708_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-022385
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-022385.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-022385.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. engaged BDO USA, P.C. as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: BDO USA, P.C.
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/835324/000143774925022385/0001437749-25-022385-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.