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bufddymike	Great volatility.	Love	November 09, 2009
sharon 256	holding	Hate	August 04, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"But we must collapse Fifth Third (FITB), KeyCorp (KEY), SunTrust (STI) and Regions Financial (RF) into other banks if we are going to move through this period. We aren't there yet." <a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=a42e12e8-b7f1-495a-b03b-9c2400c3b85f" target="_blank">"FDIC and Treasury at Loggerheads," 6-10-09</a>	Love	June 11, 2009
supratrade	03/11/09 06/11/09 3 month $6.81 $5.64 -17.18%	Love	June 09, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"Don't go with Fifth Third (FITB). Don't go with Key (KEY)," said Jim Cramer on CNBC's "Stop Trading!" segment on Tuesday. (<a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/10508433/1/cramers-stop-trading-huntington-bank.html" target="_blank">"Stop Trading!" 6-2-09</a>)	Love	June 03, 2009
barrons3	KeyCorp (KEY) is the wild card. Boy, I think this bank's weak. This is the first stress-test "failure" bank, meaning that this is the one that I thought should have been forced to merge with another bank. I do not want to touch it, as it has been poorly run, and I don't see any change in that. I would rather wait for a deal from Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), as that company has changed teams up top and has an aggressive management putting the past behind it.	Love	May 14, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"If Wells Fargo went up 6, isn't it reasonable to presume that Bank of New York Mellon (BK), KeyCorp (KEY), Capital One (COF), BB&T (BBT) and no doubt all of the others, would do the same?" (<a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=8f053f2a-e87f-4c21-b108-9c07006a98f7" target="_blank">"A Bevy of Bank Offerings," 5-12-09</a>)	Love	May 13, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	KeyCorp (KEY) was also losing ground after reporting a far wider first-quarter loss than analysts expected. <a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/10488944/1/financial-winners-losers-citigroup.html" target="_blank">For more, read <I>TheStreet.com's</I> article.</a>	Love	April 21, 2009
barrons3	Q: Where have you been nibbling lately? A: In the past couple of months, I have owned and added to names like KeyCorp [KEY]. But as I mentioned, now is the time to buy a portfolio of names, because if I give you one name out of the 10, it would be the one that will underperform. That is the Peter Lynch rule: Give a lot of names, and your chances of being right are pretty good.	Love	March 21, 2009
hedley6698	seems like a good idea	Love	March 21, 2009
barrons3	I believe in selling a lot of the smaller regionals. I don't know what happens to KeyCorp(KEY), Comerica(CMA), SunTrust(STI), Huntington Bancshares(HBAN), Regions Financial(RF) and Fifth Third(FITB). Maybe they will be turned into zombie banks. Maybe they get seized.	Love	February 19, 2009
barrons3	Contrarians like KeyCorp for its 10.8% core capital ratio and big deposit base. If it can keep on working out problem loans, shares could double or triple when the economy revives.	Love	January 17, 2009
barrons3	While the elite of PNC, Wells Fargo, US Bancorp and JPMorgan have done well, there appear to be better values in the financial sector, including regionals like Fifth Third (FITB), Marshall & Ilsley (MI), KeyCorp (KEY) and Synovus (SNV). Outside banking, battered life insurers beckon, including Prudential Financial (PRU) and MetLife (MET), both of which trade below book value. While insurers are exposed to weak markets through huge investment portfolios, they don't have banks' leverage -- or risks.	Love	November 01, 2008
barrons3	Hold - Price 9.92 on Oct. 29 by Sandler O'Neill Key has been approved for $2.5 billion of [Treasury] capital, equating to roughly 2.3% of risk-weighted assets....We estimate the annual dividend on the preferred shares will cost Key about 25 cents a share in EPS...roughly 32% of our prior 2009E EPS...[so] we're lowering our '09E EPS from 80 cents to 64 cents. Considerable uncertainty remains...we still don't know when each bank will receive the money. The longer-term concern: how the capital will be used. Market cap: $4.9 billion.	Love	November 01, 2008
barrons3	Some likely takeover candidates according to Liesman are National City Corp [NCC], KeyCorp [KEY], Comerica [CMA] and First Horizon [FHN]. But this isn’t a slam dunk in my opinion, Liesman concludes.	Love	October 22, 2008
barrons3	So you can wreck XL Capital (XL) and Prudential (PRU) and Morgan Stanley (MS) and MetLife (MET) and KeyCorp (KEY) and Fifth Third (FITB) and Nat City (NCC) -- takeover, who are you kidding? -- in a matter of weeks.	Love	October 09, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "Key is a bad bank. I don't want to own it. They don't deserve to be owned."	Love	August 05, 2008
barrons2	The piece is a virtual hit list of banks that need to refinance: Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), Citizens Republic Bancorp (CRBC), Colonial Bancgroup (CNB), Comerica (CMA), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Huntingon Bancshares (HBAN), KeyCorp (KEY), Marshall & Ilsley (MI) (conviction sell!!) National City (NCC), Popular Inc. (BPOP) and South Financial (TSFG).	Love	June 18, 2008
barrons2	Also keep your eye on the regional banks, Najarian adds. Options action in KeyCorp (KEY) looks bearish to me.	Love	June 18, 2008
sarah z	In the recent post below, he lays out his take on the sector. “The big difference between 1990s bank implosion and this one is that nobody at other banks sees any value in owning the ones that are faltering. Key (KEY) is the latest example. Key's everywhere, it is grandfathered to be in every state. You would think there was some bank out there that would want it. Nope. No one. So they have to do this down round that destroys the common. Nobody wants Sovereign (SOV) either. Or Nat City (NCC). Or Washington Mutual (WM). The latter's really interesting now that Hudson City (HCBK) has passed it in market size because it says that all of those branches and all of that deposit base just doesn't mean anything. Or worse, the losses are so bad that unless the Fed takes the losses and puts them on its balance sheet, there can be no consolidation. Yet consolidation is the only way to go. Now, we are much more laissez faire then we were in 1990. The administration then felt engaged to move quickly to set up mergers instead of the charade of down rounds. I call them charades because none of them yet has produced a return for anyone who has put the money up. Bank of America's (BAC) Countrywide (CFC) charade is the biggest of all. I make it 50-50 that CFC brings down BAC. I am not kidding. That's how badly that deal was thought out and how much bad product there is on CFC's books. Bear wasn't a bank. Its failure was about counter party risk, basically whether Bear could take down JPMorgan (JPM), which was on the hook for the other side for a bunch of Bear trades, plus the Bear portfolio, which I am told was the worst of the worst. Banks, on the other hand, do have worthwhile deposit bases. You can see that if the Resolution Trust for mortgages had been set up, the mergers would have occurred already with the surviving bank coming out strong and the defaults on the Fed's balance sheets. Without it we are Japan, keeping everyone afloat. I expect many more Key banks. The only way out of this jam right now is to hope that the value funds don't have their money taken away through horrid performance. Then we will be okay. But it will be elongated and stubborn and not nearly done as we still don't know what properties were insured by insurance that is running out, and we don't know HELOC dispersal and losses by geography and vintage. Too many wide open questions. Just think about who is the next Key and you won't make a mistake next time.”	Love	June 15, 2008
jcyubero	fin	Hate	June 13, 2008
barrons2	Jon Najarian observed September put activity in KeyCorp (KEY). He said that stock will probably grind lower from here.	Love	June 04, 2008
barrons2	Just the opposite could be in store for shareholders of KeyCorp (KEY), a multiregional bank-holding company. Wednesday, it raised its forecast for net loan charge-offs, saying it is dealing "aggressively" with reducing exposure in its residential home-builder portfolio and that it anticipates elevated charge-offs in its education and home-improvement loan portfolios. That prompted Goldman Sachs to predict a possible 50% dividend cut by the Cleveland company. Goldman maintained its Neutral rating on the shares.	Love	May 31, 2008
Tom1996	Take a look at the current bank problems it becomes clear that most are related to the subprime market Key has no sub prime portfolio there are some minor credit issues but in the long haul this is well performing bank. It should be selling closer to the $30 range.	Love	January 10, 2008
Tom1996	under rated and priced below value	Love	January 10, 2008
Maineman	None.	Love	January 06, 2008
Eugene Pearson	own some	Love	December 20, 2007
dfwgambler	A takeover stock.	Love	October 19, 2007
Glenn2	Financial	Love	October 17, 2007
High Dividends	3.8	Love	October 15, 2007