With 10.59 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 15.26 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $14.94 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $14.74. The 52-week range on KEY shows that it touched its highest point at $20.04 and its lowest point at $12.73 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $17.39. With its current market cap of 16.29 billion, KEY has annualized dividend of $0.82 while the current yield stands at 5.51%. KEY paid its most recent dividend on 1741046400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741046400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.07.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of KEY was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.83%, but this was down by -8.04% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -15.80% while six-month performance fell -12.94%. The stock lost -0.40% in the past year, while it has lost -13.24% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KEY yields -0.17 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.71. For the next quarter, that number is 0.35. This implies an EPS growth rate of 24.25% for this year and 19.86% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.11 billion KEY shares are outstanding with a float of 1.09 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 21.96 million, which was 198.00000000000003 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Christopher Marrott Gorman as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Clark Harold Ibrahim Khayat J.D. serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.8642 of KEY’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KEY since 15 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With KEY analysts setting a high price target of 43.0 and a low target of 15.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 18.89. Based on these targets, KEY could surge 189.17% to reach the target high and rise by 4.24% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 27.03% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.02736 being high and $0.99959 being low. For KEY, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.0181. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.4 and the low estimate is $0.35. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.38.
