In the latest trading session,, 1.65 million Keycorp (NYSE:KEY) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.08. With the company’s most recent per share price at $17.34 changing hands around $0.12 or 0.73% at last look, the market valuation stands at $19.01B. KEY’s current price is a discount, trading about -15.57% off its 52-week high of $20.04. The share price had its 52-week low at $12.73, which suggests the last value was 26.59% up since then. When we look at Keycorp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 14.17 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 14.16 million.
Analysts gave the Keycorp (KEY) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.04. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 15 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 5 recommended KEY as a Hold, 9 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Keycorp (NYSE:KEY) trade information
Instantly KEY is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 5.18%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 28.20%, with the 5-day performance at 5.18% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Keycorp (NYSE:KEY) is 8.75% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 24.59 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.05 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 17.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 0.91% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, KEY’s forecast low is 17 with 18 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -3.81% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 1.96% for it to hit the projected low.
The 2025 estimates are for Keycorp earnings to increase by 24.37%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 18.56% per year.
KEY Dividends
Keycorp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Apr-17. The 4.73% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.82. It is important to note, however, that the 4.73% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 4.98 per year.
Keycorp (NYSE:KEY)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.28% of Keycorp shares while 89.48% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 89.72%. There are 89.48% institutions holding the Keycorp stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 11.7849% of the shares, roughly 109.8 million KEY shares worth $1.56 billion.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 10.7251% or 99.93 million shares worth $1.42 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . With 34.85 shares estimated at $605.18 million under it, the former controlled 3.18% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.53% of the shares, roughly 27.67 shares worth around $480.57 million.
