KeyCorp KEY

equity

Price History

1987-11 · DCA start$5.77

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

1987-112026-08 · -42.4%

Worst drawdown: −87%, peaking Apr 1998 and bottoming May 2009 — still unrecovered after 340 months.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $46,600
Value today: $77,152
Return: +65.6%
Months invested: 466

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $80,618 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is -4.3%.

Lump sum instead — $46,600 all at once in Nov 1987: $184,720 (+296.4%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Apr 1998): $50,818 on $34,100 invested (+49.0%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1987-11: +65.6%

About KeyCorp

KeyBank is an American regional bank, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Formed by the 1994 merger of the Society Corporation and KeyCorp, KeyBank is the 27th largest bank in the United States. The company today operates nearly 1,000 branches and over 1,200 ATMs across the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest and Northeast United States as well as in Alaska, Colorado, Texas and Utah. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under financials and regional banks, with a market cap of about $24.4B.

It rates High Risk at 2.8/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and sector / regulatory (4.0/5).

Scoring well: leverage / financial at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

High Risk(2.8/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.7/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)3/526.1
Max drawdown from ATH5/587.4
Beta vs S&P 5003/50.98

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5257.2m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equity1/50.55
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched

Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility5/5100

Concentrationunrated · weight 10%

Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched

Governanceunrated · weight 10%

Board independence %not yet researched
Share structurenot yet researched
Litigation / audit historynot yet researched

Sector / Regulatory4.0/5 · weight 10%

Sector regulatory exposure4/5high

Linked Assets

Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.