PROVIDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $25.11, PROVIDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. (PFS) is priced for 10.7% return on equity. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed June 27, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Provident Financial Services is a New Jersey regional bank that roughly doubled in size by absorbing Lakeland Bancorp, and it now holds about a 4.71% share of bank deposits in its home New Jersey market per its 10-K. • The bank is earning well on its capital, posting a return on average tangible common equity around 16.6% and a return on average assets near 1.3% in the first quarter of 2026, with record net interest income [Source: Provident Q1 2026 results, 2026]. • The defining risk is comme
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292 institutional managers reported holding PFS in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 73% of the company; the top 10 hold 52%. 37 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 5.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (7 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
PFS's share count grew 70.3% over the past five years even with $77.45M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting); the current rate is $0.96 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $293.95M in dividends and $10.26M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at PFS over the trailing three years: 2023: 16 buys totaling $103k; 2024: 3 buys totaling $31k; 2025: 1 buy totaling $17k. 28 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
PFS's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | +0.4% | -15.6% |
| 2023-11-09 | +7.5% | +19.6% |
| 2024-02-29 | +0.1% | +1.1% |
| 2024-04-27 | +5.3% | -5.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
PFS's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-04 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-30 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-30 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-30 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-06-23 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: June 27, 2026
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