Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) saw an upside of 1.49% to close Monday at $10.23 after adding $0.15 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 3,103,280 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $10.24 in the past week and touched a new high 3 times within the past 5 days. An average of 4,946,260 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 4,475,004.
VLY’s 1-month performance is 32.68% or $2.52 on its low of $7.70 reached on 07/10/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $6.39 and high of $13.07, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/03/23. YTD, VLY has lost -9.55% or -$1.08 and has reached a new high 5 times. However, the current price is down -21.73% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
VLY stock investors last saw insider trading activity on May 22.ABRAMSON ANDREW B (Director) most recently sold 6,000 shares at $11.90 per share on Feb 21. This transaction cost the insider $71,400.
Valuation Metrics
VLY stock has a beta of 1.15. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 1.92 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 0.82, with the price to cash flow ratio at 4.47.
As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.13, while the total debt to equity was 0.13. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $1.66 billion against revenue of $1.98 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Analysts expected VLY to announce $0.29 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.28, representing a -3.40% surprise. Shareholders hold equity totaling $507.88 million.
Let’s look briefly at Valley National Bancorp (VLY) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 07 August was 69.81% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 38.26%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $10.02, reflecting a -0.29% or -$0.03 change from its current price. VLY is currently trading +30.48% above its 20-day SMA, +6.12% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +34.08% and SMA200 by-13.45%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 80.89% and 78.57% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.35. The RSI (14) points at 68.02%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 82.88% with the period’s ATR at 0.35. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at 0.01 and 0.19 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ: VLY), Hovde Group downgraded it to a Market perform rating. They previously had an Outperform rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for VLY stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate VLY as a “sell,”, while 5 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 6 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is VLY’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $8.00 and a high of $12.00, with their median price target at $11.25. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Valley National Bancorp (VLY) stock is $11.00.
