Is Valley National Bancorp’s (NASDAQ:VLY) Stock Expensive Or Cheap At $9.89?

In recent trading session, Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) saw 22.77 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.09. Company’s recent per share price level of $9.89 trading at -$0.16 or -1.64% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $5.03B. That most recent trading price of VLY’s stock is at a discount of -13.45% from its 52-week high price of $11.22 and is indicating a premium of 34.58% from its 52-week low price of $6.47. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 5.92 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 5.44 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Valley National Bancorp (VLY), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.45. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 3 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 2 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.16 in the current quarter.

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Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -1.64%, in the last five days VLY remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 11/06/24 when the stock touched $9.89 price level, adding 6.87% to its value on the day. Valley National Bancorp’s shares saw a change of -8.98% in year-to-date performance and have moved 4.94% in past 5-day. Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) showed a performance of 11.57% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 35.4 million shares which calculate 5.7 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 11 to the stock, which implies a rise of 10.09% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 9 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 14. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 9.0% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 9.0% for stock’s current value.

Valley National Bancorp (VLY) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that Valley National Bancorp is scoring comparatively lower than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company added 27.88% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of -37.74% while that of industry is -5.10. Apart from that, the company came lowering its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024. This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -2.60% from the last financial year’s standing.

7 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 464.16M for the same. And 6 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 470.33M in the next quarter. Company posted 449.97M and 454.96M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 4.85% during past 5 years. In 2024, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -38.51% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 5.00%.

VLY Dividends

Valley National Bancorp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jan-23 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 4.45%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.44 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 4.47%.

Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 1.49% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 82.09 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 83.34%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 82.09% institutions for Valley National Bancorp that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at VLY for having 71.14 million shares of worth $496.55 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 13.9943 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 45.55 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.9604 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $317.93 million.