Valley National Bancorp (VLY)
Financial Services
- Fundamental
- 4
- Sentiment
- 3
- Technical
- 2
Do Nothing: price remains below the SMA20, EMA9, and EMA21 with MACD below zero and ADX 54.70, so no qualifying short-term bullish setup is confirmed.
Company overview
Valley National Bancorp, headquartered in New York, is the holding company for Valley National Bank. It provides a wide range of financial services including commercial and consumer lending, investment management, and insurance. The bank operates 232 branches across New Jersey, New York, Florida, and Alabama.
Fundamental
goodValley National Bancorp shows solid fundamentals with improving profitability and manageable banking-cycle risks.
Valley National Bancorp is showing a clear earnings rebound (FY2025 net income $598M; Q1–Q2 2026 results up YoY) while trading at ~11.8x trailing earnings and yielding ~3.1%. SEC filings indicate the bank remains well-capitalized (CET1 around ~10.7–11.0%) and liquid, but commercial real estate credit exposure and deposit-cost sensitivity are the key watch-outs. Overall: solid fundamentals with manageable, but real, banking-cycle risk (fundamentalScore = 4).
Sentiment
fairNear-term sentiment is modestly constructive following positive Q2 earnings, but lacks strong forward catalysts.
Near-term sentiment is modestly constructive after the company’s announced Q2 2026 earnings release (2026-07-23), with the last ~14d media sample skewing bullish and slightly stronger than the 30–90d baseline. No regulator-confirmed investigations were found (court-case search hit a CAPTCHA warning), but the lack of forward-dated catalysts and minimal retail chatter keeps the short-term setup at a 3.
Technical
weakThe stock is holding an intermediate uptrend but remains in a short-term pullback with decelerating momentum.
Score 2/5: VLY is sitting around its SMA50 and well above the SMA200, but the active swing frame is still weak. Price is below the SMA20, EMA9, and EMA21, MACD is below both zero and signal, RSI is only 45, and ADX is high enough that the current downswing still has force.
You’re looking at 2026-07-31 — about 2 trading days ago.
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