KeyCorp

KEY Financial Banks Regional

KeyCorp’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $11.2 billion, up 21.6% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+1.55%
EPS
+24.4%
Free cash flow
+85.7%
Total debt
+5.09%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

20.99 0.56 −2.60%
Market cap
$22.1B
P/E
11.5×
Fwd P/E
11.2×
Dividend yield
3.91%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

KeyCorp (KEY) valuation and DCF model

What the price implies · reverse DCF

At $20.99 the price implies 7.0% a year of dividend growth, at a 9.0% cost of equity.

The dividend a share grew 11.6% a year over the last ten years, 2.3% over the last five. The price asks for less than its ten-year rate. Return on equity averaged 9.1% over ten years; the price implies 10.6% for good.

In December 2017 the price assumed 16.6% a year; KeyCorp went on to grow the dividend a share 2.6% a year to FY2025.

Price implies
7.0%
Last 5 years, reported
2.3%
Last 10 years, reported
11.6%

The headline discounts the last twelve months’ the dividend a share at 9.0% for ten years and grows it 2.5% a year after that, the same for every company, so the figure compares across the market (how a reverse DCF works).

The other way round · DCF
The price needs
7.0% a year for ten years
$20.99
today’s price
Its base case
11.6% a year for five years, then 7.0%
$25.53
21.6% above today’s price

Both are growth in the dividend a share, discounted at 9.0%, with 2.5% a year after year ten.

Base case on its own ten-year record KeyCorp’s own growth, carried forward

Its assumptions

Powerpack lets you start from a scenario and type over any of them.

The base case’s inputs, which Powerpack lets you change
1 · Dividends
the four quarters to September 2026, from the 10-Q and 10-K filings

Yearly growth in the dividend. It usually slows as the company matures.

Today’s price implies the dividend a share growing 7.0% a year for ten years.

2 · Rates

Cost of equity is the yearly return shareholders require, typically 8–11%. Terminal growth is growth forever after year 10, usually near long-run inflation, 2–3%.

3 · Per share

The model is a share’s own: no debt to take off and no shares to divide among.

Advanced inputs

Against KeyCorp’s own cost of capital: risk-free 4.3% + beta 1.07 × equity premium 4.5% = 9.1% cost of equity; weighted, 9.1%.

Use 9.1%
Base case value per share $25.53 ten years discounted, and what follows
Current price $20.99 market price per share
Above today’s price 21.6% upside at the base case’s assumptions

How we got there$10.16 10 years of dividends+$15.37 terminal value=$25.53 per share

Valuation against its own history

Today’s multiple against its 5- and 10-year averages and the industry median (Banks Regional).

Multiple Current 5Y avg 10Y avg vs 10Y avg Industry median vs industry 10Y range
P/E 11.47× 11.83× 13.30× 14% below 12.02× 5% below
P/FCF 14.57× 12.01× 11.62× 25% above 10.60× 37% above
P/B 1.40× 1.26× 1.27× 10% above 1.23× 13% above
EV/Sales — 2.25× 2.91× — 3.90× —
9.84×13.71×17.58×21.45×10Y avg 13.30×2016201720182019202020212022202320252026

KEY trades at 11.47× P/E, against a 10-year average of 13.30× (range 8.59×–22.27×). That is cheaper than 67% of the last 9 year-end readings; re-rating to the average implies $24.33 per share.

Every growth rate on this page is the business’s — its cash flow, FFO or dividend — never its share price’s. A discounted-cash-flow model is only as good as its assumptions. Figures from the 10-K and 10-Q filings. Not investment advice.