Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, March 26, with the stock price down by -0.88% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $9.03.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $9.11, falling within a range of $8.97 and $9.255. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.138 whereas the PE ratio was 13.07 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $11.10, and the low was $6.47. On the whole, VLY has fluctuated by -5.05% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Valley National Bancorp currently standing at about $5.06 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-22. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.44, with its dividend yield at 4.87%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 2.03B, with a low estimate of 481.7M and a high estimate of 486M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 483.98M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that VLY’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0.52, with the price of VLY currently trading nearly 0.11% and -5.65% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 45.83, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.39% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.96%. Furthermore, Valley National Bancorp (VLY)’s beta value is 1.08, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.27.
A comparison of Valley National Bancorp (VLY) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. VLY showed an intraday change of -0.88% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 15.92%%.
Data on historical trading for Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 7.85 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 8.39 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 558.79 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 14.65% of Valley National Bancorp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 69.28% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 27.78 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 3.54. According to the data, the short interest in Valley National Bancorp (VLY) stood at 668.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 26.11 million. The stock has fallen by -0.33% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the VLY stock heading into the next quarter.
