With 25.12% Distance From Low, Could Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) Post Further Gains?

In recent trading session, Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) saw 2.8 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.07. Company’s recent per share price level of $8.64 trading at $0.01 or 0.12% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $4.84B. That most recent trading price of VLY’s stock is at a discount of -28.47% from its 52-week high price of $11.10 and is indicating a premium of 25.12% 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 11.55 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 9.56 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 2.00. 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 0.19 in the current quarter.

Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) trade information

Upright in the green today for gaining 0.12%, in the last five days VLY remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 04/23/25 when the stock touched $8.64 price level, adding 1.93% to its value on the day. Valley National Bancorp’s shares saw a change of -4.64% in year-to-date performance and have moved 5.11% in past 5-day. Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) showed a performance of -5.16% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 33.43 million shares which calculate 4.21 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 21.45% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 11 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 11. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -27.31% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -27.31% for stock’s current value.

Valley National Bancorp (VLY) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 9.60% from the last financial year’s standing.

5 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 483.3M for the same. And 5 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 501.14M in the next quarter. Company posted 454.96M and 452.9M 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 -4.53% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 51.89% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 25.96%.

VLY Dividends

Valley National Bancorp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jan-22 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 5.09%, 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 1.39% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 83.75 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 84.93%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 83.75% 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 13.9723 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 8.9463 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $317.93 million.

On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 15.52 shares of worth $132.62 million or 4.67% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 14.77 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $126.25 million in the company or a holder of 4.45% of company’s stock.