THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORPORATION
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $137.19, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORPORATION (BK) is priced for 17.9% return on equity. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 25, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• This is a fee business wearing a bank charter: it earns a return on equity around 13.5% while holding a common equity tier 1 ratio near 11.9%, and it handed back roughly 93.8% of the latest fiscal year's earnings as dividends and repurchases. • The price is the risk. At about 2.4 times book value it sits at the very top of its peer group, and it needs a return on equity above anything the bank has averaged across nineteen years of record, which is closer to 8.5%. • Management lifted its 2026 r
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BK has cut its share count 20.5% over the past five years, spending $13.56B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 13 years straight; the current rate is $2.00 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $3.89B in dividends and $8.48B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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