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Provident Financial Services Inc. (PFS)

As-reported financials and SEC filings for Provident Financial Services Inc. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q2 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.

About Provident Financial Services Inc.

Provident Financial Services Inc is a bank holding company that owns Provident Bank, a New Jersey-chartered savings bank. Provident Bank operates full-service branches in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, serving individuals, families, and businesses with deposit accounts, commercial and residential loans, and wealth management and insurance services. The company focuses on relationship banking, core deposits, and managing interest rate risk through a diversified loan portfolio and investment securities.

Snapshot

Revenue
$870.4M
Revenue growth (YoY)
25.3%
Net income
$291.2M
Diluted EPS
$2.23
Gross margin
—
Operating margin
—
Net margin
33.5%
FCF margin
49.5%
ROE
10.3%
net income / fiscal-year-end equity
P/E
9.3×
trailing when available, otherwise FY EPS
Market cap
$2.90B
Long-term debt / equity
—
non-current term debt only

Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended December 31, 2025). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.

What changed at Provident Financial Services

  • Revenue grew 25.3% to $870M in FY2025, slower than the 45.0% the year before.
  • Most recent quarter Q2 FY2026: revenue $235M, up 9.6% from Q2 FY2025.
  • Free cash flow was $431M in FY2025, 49.5% of revenue.
  • Net income rose 152.0% to $291M in FY2025.

Computed from the as-reported figures in the statements below. A change we cannot state from filed figures is left out rather than estimated.

Peer comparison

Where Provident Financial Services’s fundamentals sit among the 424 Financials companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).

Net margin33.5%
89th percentile of 372
FCF margin49.5%
89th percentile of 266
Revenue growth (YoY)+25.3%
74th percentile of 419
ROE10.3%
55th percentile of 373
P/E9.3×
23rd percentile of 307
Short interest6.07d
81st percentile of 419

Provident Financial Services’s net margin of 33.5% ranks in the 89th percentile of the 372 Financials companies reporting it. Provident Financial Services’s FCF margin of 49.5% ranks in the 89th percentile of the 266 Financials companies reporting it.

No reported insider purchases (code P) in the last 90 days; 4 insider sales totaling $1.9M. For context, about 15% of companies in the universe saw any reported insider purchase (code P) in the same window. Browse insider activity →

Percentiles describe where a figure sits among sector peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.

Institutional ownership

Held by 4 quant / multi-strat books among the superinvestors we track; no conviction manager currently reports a position.

Conviction investors
0
+4 quant / multi-strat
Initiated / added
3
0 new, 3 added
Reduced / exited
2
1 trimmed, 1 exited
Combined position
$75.7M
reported long value
InvestorAs ofPosition valueSharesChange
Millennium ManagementquantQ2 2026$54.3M2.3MAdded
AQR Capital ManagementquantQ2 2026$10.0M423.0KAdded
D. E. ShawquantQ2 2026$6.1M258.0KAdded
Two Sigma InvestmentsquantQ2 2026$5.3M224.6KReduced

No longer held by: Renaissance Technologies (as of Q2 2026)

From quarterly Form 13F filings, which can be up to 45 days delayed. Long US-listed positions only: excludes short positions, options, cash, bonds, and non-US holdings, so this is not a manager’s complete portfolio. Counts are of the investors we track, not all institutions. Not investment advice.

Recent insider activity

Non-derivative buys and sells (codes P/S) reported by officers, directors and 10% owners on SEC Form 4.

Buys (90d)
0
code P
Bought (90d)
—
code P value
Sells (90d)
4
$1.9M
Reported activity
Net selling
by $ value, 90d
Trade dateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue
2026-09-14
filed 2026-09-15
James A. ChristyEVP, CRO of Provident BankSell3.0K$23.36$70K
2026-09-01
Thomas SharaDirectorSell40.3K$23.06$929K
2026-08-31
filed 2026-09-01
Thomas SharaDirectorSell15.9K$23.30$370K
2026-08-18
filed 2026-08-19
Vito GiannolaEVP & CRBO of provident BankSell20.0K$24.36$487K
2026-06-12
filed 2026-06-15
George ListaPres/CEO Prov Protection PlusSell3.5K$23.41$83K
2026-05-08
filed 2026-05-12
George ListaPres/CEO Prov Protection PlusSell2.6K$22.40$57K

Reported non-derivative purchases and sales (codes P/S), which may be open-market or private. Excludes option exercises, grants, and shares withheld for taxes. Dates shown are the trade date; a Form 4 can be filed days to years later. A sale can be routine (e.g. a pre-set 10b5-1 plan), so read individual transactions in context. From SEC Form 4. Not investment advice.

Short interest

Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.

Shares short
5.9M
settled 2026-09-30
Change vs prior
-4.3%
vs previous settlement
Days to cover
6.07
at avg daily volume
Avg daily volume
969.4K
FINRA reported
SettlementShares shortChangeDays to cover
2026-09-305.9M-4.3%6.07
2026-09-156.1M+13.4%8.44
2026-08-315.4M-7.9%7.34
2026-08-145.9M-1.2%6.90
2026-07-316.0M+0.0%5.07
2026-07-156.0M-10.6%6.77
2026-06-306.7M+14.6%4.68
2026-06-155.8M-6.2%6.96

Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.

Bank fundamentals

Regulatory detail for Provident Bank (Jersey City, NJ), the insured-bank subsidiary, from its FDIC Call Report as of Q2 2026. This is what actually moves bank stocks: deposit franchise, capital, and credit quality that a standard income statement can’t show.

Total deposits
$19.6B
FDIC insured-bank
Uninsured deposits
54.1%
share of deposits
CET1 ratio
12.10%
regulatory capital
Net interest margin
3.57%
trailing
Efficiency ratio
45.7%
lower is better
Noncurrent loans
0.55%
of gross loans

Source: FDIC BankFind (Call Report). Bank-subsidiary figures, filed quarterly ~30 days after quarter-end.

Income statement (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Revenue
Gross profit—————
Operating income—————
Net income$291.2M$115.5M$128.4M$175.6M$167.9M
Diluted EPS$2.23$1.05$1.71$2.35$2.19

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Balance sheet (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Cash and equivalents$209.1M$205.9M$180.2M$186.4M$685.2M
Current assets—————
Total assets$24.98B$24.05B$14.21B$13.78B$13.78B
Current liabilities—————
Long-term debt—————
Total liabilities$22.15B$21.45B$12.52B$12.19B$12.08B
Total equity$2.83B$2.60B$1.69B$1.60B$1.70B

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Cash flow (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Operating cash flow$442.3M$426.4M$173.4M$200.3M$156.8M
Capital expenditure$11.5M$1.3M$7.5M$9.4M$13.8M
Free cash flow

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueRevenue YoYNet incomeDiluted EPS
Q2 FY2026$234.7M9.6%$78.1M$0.60
Q1 FY2026$225.2M7.9%$79.4M$0.61
Q4 FY20259.6%
Q3 FY2025$221.8M5.3%$71.7M$0.55
Q2 FY2025$214.2M30.8%$72.0M$0.55
Q1 FY2025$208.8M82.4%$64.0M$0.49
Q4 FY202479.4%
Q3 FY2024$210.6M82.2%$46.4M$0.36

Latest 8 quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR. A dotted underline marks a fourth-quarter figure we calculated from the full year and the first nine months. Revenue YoY is our calculation too: each quarter against the same quarter a year earlier.

Company facts

ExchangeNYSE
SectorFinancials
SIC industrySavings Institution, Federally Chartered
Latest annual periodFY2025 (ended December 31, 2025)
Latest reported quarterQ2 FY2026 (ended June 30, 2026)
Oldest indexed filing2015
SEC CIK1178970

Selected SEC filings

10-Q2026-08-07
View on EDGAR →
10-Q2026-05-08
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8-K2026-08-24
View on EDGAR →
8-K2026-08-14
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8-K2026-08-04
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8-K2026-07-30
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Data sourced from SEC EDGAR. Figures are as-reported and may be unaudited or restated; verify against the source filing before relying on them. Informational only. Not investment advice.