VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $13.92, VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP (VLY) is priced for 11.0% 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: 2026-08-25 (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); 2026-05-07 (items 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 28, 2026
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