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Provident Financial Services, Inc.PFSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Savings Banks

New Jersey bank offering commercial, retail and wealth-management banking across New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

Momentum neutral 53
Mkt cap
$2.99B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
94%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$20.3M
20-day average traded
P/B
1.05×
price to book
ROE
11.0%
delivered
Implied ROE
9.2%
what the price asks
Next earnings
77 days
22 Jan 2027
Close · USD$22.96
1D+0.1%
1W+0.1%
1M+3.3%
3M-5.7%
6M+2.5%
YTD+16.2%
1Y+24.2%
ATR %2.3%
Beta0.51
52w lowhigh9.9% off high

What Provident Financial Services does

New Jersey bank offering commercial, retail and wealth-management banking across New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

Earns mostly the gap between interest on loans, weighted to commercial borrowers, and what it pays on deposits, with fees from wealth management as a smaller addition. Its income follows loan growth and funding costs across the three states it serves.

Products and services

  • Commercial banking
  • Retail banking
  • Wealth management

Customers

  • NJ/NY/PA small businesses and consumers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial services
  • Regional banks
  • Tri-state community banking

What could go right

  • Regional commercial loan growth

What could go wrong

  • Net interest margin compression
  • Regional economic slowdown

Moat: narrow (scale, distribution). Long-standing, multi-state New Jersey-area branch franchise.

Headquarters: Jersey City, New Jersey, US · Founded: 1839 · Employees: 1,866

Named competitors

Provident Financial Services at a glance

Size Provident Financial Services (PFS) is a United States Financials company (Savings Banks) with a market value of $2.99B, the 1554th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $22.96 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 2.5%, against +9.5% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 5th lowest of 15 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 4.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +5.9%); the operating margin is 47.5% (peer median 39.8%).

Valuation It trades at 1.05× book value against a peer median of 1.23× (5th cheapest of 15).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 9.2%; Provident Financial Services delivers 11.0%, so the price asks less than the business earns today.

Short interest Short interest is 4.7% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 22 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 111PFS 104
Six months, rebased to 100: Provident Financial Services against the median of its 15 peers (local-currency closes).

Provident Financial Services financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$1.43B$1.38B$1.14B$696M$553M
Revenue growth—+21%+64%+26%—
Net income$310M$291M$116M$128M$176M
Free cash flown/a$431M$425M$162M$193M
Capital expendituren/a$11.5M$1.31M$7.49M$9.41M
Total debt$2.82B$2.58B$2.49B$2.04B$1.41B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Provident Financial Services competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-10%0%+10%+20%0%+5%+10%CLBKSPOLMINGWSFSNWBISHAWTFSLOCFCTFINCFFNSTBSB1NOTRSTSMBCPFS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Provident Financial Services is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

5%10%10×20×CLBKSPOLMINGWSFSNWBISHAWTFSLOCFCTFINSTBSB1NOTRSTSMBCPFSReturn on equity →Price / book →
A bank or insurer earning more on its equity usually trades at a higher multiple of book; points far above the trend are priced for more. Provident Financial Services is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

5%10%15%5%10%15%CLBKSPOLMINGWSFSNWBISHAWTFSLOCFCTFINCFFNSTBSB1NOTRSTSMBCPFSROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Provident Financial Services is the large dot.

Provident Financial Services competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (PFS vs CLBK vs OCFC vs VLY)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Provident Financial Services PFS$2.99B+2%+4%11%1.05×9.2%
Columbia Financial CLBK$2.99B+25%+23%2%0.95×6.2%
OceanFirst Financial OCFC$1.82B-4%+31%2%0.75×8.1%
Valley National Bancorp VLY$7.75B+5%+3%9%1.03×10.6%

How Provident Financial Services compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Provident Financial Services against its 15 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasurePFSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+3.3%+4.1%8th lowest of 16
6-month return+2.5%+9.5%5th lowest of 15
Return on equity11.0%9.5%6th highest of 15
Price / book1.05×1.23×5th cheapest of 15
Trailing P/E9.7×13.1×2nd cheapest of 15
ROE the price implies9.2%9.9%7th least demanding of 15
ROE delivered11.0%9.6%6th highest of 15

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Provident Financial Services PFSUnited States$2.99B+2%+4%11%1.05×9.2%11.0%
Columbia Financial CLBKUnited States$2.99B+25%+23%2%0.95×6.2%2.3%
Sparebank 1 Ostlandet SPOL.OLNorway$3.01B+9%-2%9%1.09×7.1%9.1%
SpareBank 1 SMN MING.OLNorway$3.38B+16%-6%9%1.08×7.0%8.8%
WSFS Financial WSFSUnited States$3.99B+10%+2%12%1.53×12.4%12.4%
Northwest Bancshares NWBIUnited States$2.23B+10%+13%11%1.18×9.3%10.7%
Shawbrook SHAW.LUnited Kingdom$1.96B-12%+5%12%0.79×8.0%12.2%
TFS Financial TFSLUnited States$4.61B+9%+6%5%2.72×18.1%5.1%
OceanFirst Financial OCFCUnited States$1.82B-4%+31%2%0.75×8.1%2.3%
Triumph Financial TFINUnited States$1.46B-8%+13%5%1.57×17.5%5.3%
American Savings Bank N.A ASBHUnited States$1.30Bn/an/an/an/an/an/a
Capitol Federal Financial CFFNUnited States$1.06B+7%+6%8%1.04×8.4%8.4%
Storebrand STB.OLNorway$8.94B+13%+40%14%2.56×16.1%13.9%
Sparebank 1 Sor-norge SB1NO.OLNorway$9.31B+24%-5%13%1.69×12.4%12.5%
TrustCo Bank Corp NY TRSTUnited States$947M+17%+6%10%1.50×10.7%10.0%
Southern Missouri Bancorp SMBCUnited States$775M+2%+3%13%1.29×10.5%12.9%

Questions

Who are Provident Financial Services's main competitors?
Named competitors: Columbia Financial (CLBK), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Valley National Bancorp (VLY). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Columbia Financial (CLBK), Sparebank 1 Ostlandet (SPOL.OL), SpareBank 1 SMN (MING.OL), WSFS Financial (WSFS), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), Shawbrook (SHAW.L).
Is Provident Financial Services expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 1.05× against a peer median of 1.23×, 5th cheapest of 15 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 9.2%; Provident Financial Services delivers 11.0%, so the price asks less than the business earns today.
How has Provident Financial Services stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +2.5% against +9.5% for the median peer; over one year +24.2%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.