With 9.33 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 9.14 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $9.24 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $8.95. The 52-week range on VLY shows that it touched its highest point at $11.10 and its lowest point at $7.18 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $10.75. With its current market cap of 5.14 billion, VLY has annualized dividend of $0.44 while the current yield stands at 4.79%. VLY paid its most recent dividend on 1749772800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1757894400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.11.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of VLY was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.65%, but this was down by -1.71% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 5.40% while six-month performance fell -10.44%. The stock gained 1.32% in the past year, while it has gained 11.95% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VLY yields 0.78 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.16. For the next quarter, that number is 0.26. This implies an EPS growth rate of 50.64% for this year and 24.50% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 26.87% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -4.53%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 560.28 million VLY shares are outstanding with a float of 478.54 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 24.97 million, which was 446.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Ira D. Robbins CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Chairman, Mr. Travis P. Lan serves as its Senior Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.85963994 of VLY’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VLY since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With VLY analysts setting a high price target of 11.0 and a low target of 10.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 10.75. Based on these targets, VLY could surge 19.83% to reach the target high and rise by 8.93% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 17.1% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.65272 being high and $0.62305 being low. For VLY, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.63294.
