VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $12.47, VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP (VLY) is priced for 10.2% 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 28, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
- Valley National is a regional commercial bank concentrated in the Northeast and Florida, with about 79% of the book in commercial banking. Q1 2026 net income rose to about $164 million from $106 million a year earlier, with adjusted EPS of $0.29 beating consensus, helped by a net interest margin that expanded to 3.17% and a sharp drop in credit provisions. - The price is read off book value, as it should be for a bank. At $14.08 the market is paying roughly one times book and assumes Valley s
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445 institutional managers reported holding VLY in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 73% of the company; the top 10 hold 44%. 51 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 39.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 7% of shares outstanding (6.1 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.
VLY's share count grew 36.9% over the past five years even with $183.03M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting); the current rate is $0.44 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $651.86M in dividends and $124.56M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at VLY over the trailing three years: 2024: 3 buys totaling $9.36M; 2025: 2 buys totaling $3k; 2026: 1 buy totaling $34k. 25 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.
VLY's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-08 | -1.7% | -17.3% |
| 2023-11-10 | +0.5% | +29.0% |
| 2024-03-01 | +1.7% | -3.8% |
| 2024-05-09 | -6.6% | -3.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
VLY's latest 8-K filings: 2026-09-28 (items 3.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-08-25 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-07-23 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-18 (items 5.07); 2026-05-14 (items 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 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 28, 2026
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