Compare Stocks: V, AXP, and COST

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AXP American Express	$313.47 -0.1%	$321.12	$290.97 ▼ $387.49	$211.77B	1.08	3.44 million shs	3.39 million shs
COST Costco Wholesale	$989.11 +1.1%	$933.15	$844.06 ▼ $1,096.50	$438.30B	0.88	2.39 million shs	2.52 million shs
V Visa	$403.05 +0.8%	$372.73	$293.89 ▼ $404.74	$718.43B	0.77	6.59 million shs	6.78 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AXP American Express	-0.04%	+1.72%	+0.20%	-11.81%	-5.22%
COST Costco Wholesale	+1.13%	+4.46%	+10.67%	+5.13%	+3.57%
V Visa	+0.86%	+4.52%	+8.62%	+12.42%	+16.55%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AXP American Express	$313.47 -0.1%	$321.12	$290.97 ▼ $387.49	$211.77B	1.08	3.44 million shs	3.39 million shs
COST Costco Wholesale	$989.11 +1.1%	$933.15	$844.06 ▼ $1,096.50	$438.30B	0.88	2.39 million shs	2.52 million shs
V Visa	$403.05 +0.8%	$372.73	$293.89 ▼ $404.74	$718.43B	0.77	6.59 million shs	6.78 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AXP American Express	-0.04%	+1.72%	+0.20%	-11.81%	-5.22%
COST Costco Wholesale	+1.13%	+4.46%	+10.67%	+5.13%	+3.57%
V Visa	+0.86%	+4.52%	+8.62%	+12.42%	+16.55%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AXP American Express	2.52	Moderate Buy	$365.63	16.64% Upside
COST Costco Wholesale	2.70	Moderate Buy	$1,087.40	9.94% Upside
V Visa	3.08	Buy	$426.12	5.73% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest V, AXP, and COST Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
10/15/2026	V Visa	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Outperform	$425.00
10/15/2026	COST Costco Wholesale	Tigress Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Buy	$1,065.00 ➝ $1,250.00
10/13/2026	V Visa	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Buy (B) ➝ Buy (B+)
10/12/2026	AXP American Express	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight	$382.00 ➝ $380.00
10/12/2026	AXP American Express	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Overweight	$400.00 ➝ $360.00
10/12/2026	V Visa	Robert W. Baird Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$420.00 ➝ $430.00
10/9/2026	AXP American Express	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Hold (C+)
10/9/2026	AXP American Express	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$415.00 ➝ $400.00
10/9/2026	COST Costco Wholesale	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Sector Perform	$1,000.00
10/8/2026	AXP American Express	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Initiated Coverage	Underperform ➝ Outperform	$380.00
10/8/2026	COST Costco Wholesale	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Hold (C+) ➝ Buy (B-)

(Data available from 10/17/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AXP American Express	$72.23B	2.93	$18.35 per share	17.08	$48.75 per share	6.43
COST Costco Wholesale	$303.15B	1.45	$26.54 per share	37.27	$80.80 per share	12.24
V Visa	$44.49B	16.17	$13.06 per share	30.87	$20.40 per share	19.76

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AXP American Express	$10.83B	$16.48	19.02	15.51	1.33	15.07%	34.12%	3.77%	10/23/2026 (Estimated)
COST Costco Wholesale	$9.23B	$20.76	47.64	39.69	4.23	3.04%	27.60%	10.63%	12/10/2026 (Estimated)
V Visa	$20.06B	$11.76	34.27	26.89	1.89	50.78%	67.68%	25.45%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)

Latest V, AXP, and COST Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
10/27/2026	Q4 2026	V Visa	$3.44	N/A	N/A	N/A	$12.09 billion	N/A
10/23/2026	Q3 2026	AXP American Express	$4.58	N/A	N/A	N/A	$20.12 billion	N/A
9/24/2026	Q4 2026	COST Costco Wholesale	$6.54	$6.75	+$0.21	$6.75	$94.97 billion	$95.72 billion
7/28/2026	Q3 2026	V Visa	$3.23	$3.32	+$0.09	$2.97	$11.40 billion	$11.63 billion
7/24/2026	Q2 2026	AXP American Express	$4.41	$4.53	+$0.12	$4.53	$19.70 billion	$14.99 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AXP American Express	$3.80	1.21%	+12.94%	23.06%	4 Years
COST Costco Wholesale	$5.88	0.59%	-15.66%	28.32%	22 Years
V Visa	$2.68	0.66%	+14.48%	22.79%	17 Years

Latest V, AXP, and COST Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
10/14/2026	COST Costco Wholesale	quarterly	$1.47	0.6%	10/30/2026	10/30/2026	11/13/2026
9/28/2026	AXP American Express	quarterly	$0.95	1.23%	10/9/2026	10/9/2026	11/10/2026
7/28/2026	V Visa	quarterly	$0.67	0.74%	8/11/2026	8/11/2026	9/1/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AXP American Express	1.66	1.55	1.54
COST Costco Wholesale	0.11	1.06	0.62
V Visa	0.60	0.99	0.99

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AXP American Express	84.33%
COST Costco Wholesale	68.48%
V Visa	82.15%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AXP American Express	0.14%
COST Costco Wholesale	0.10%
V Visa	0.12%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AXP American Express	76,800	675.31 million	674.37 million	Optionable
COST Costco Wholesale	355,000	443.13 million	442.69 million	Optionable
V Visa	34,100	1.78 billion	1.78 billion	Optionable

V, AXP, and COST Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Polygon CEO Sees Coinme Deal as Entry to Payments Business Led by Visa, Stripe

October 17 at 5:38 PM | cryptoprowl.comC

Why Is Visa (V) Changing Small Business Fees And Adding A New Card Charge?

October 17 at 5:38 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Visa Direct Moves Stablecoin Cross-Border Payments to Commercial Production with Inyo Global

October 17 at 5:38 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Visa Inc. $V Position Boosted by Banque Pictet & Cie SA

October 17 at 3:21 AM | marketbeat.com

Visa and Mastercard adopt USDC payouts across 200 countries

October 16 at 11:38 PM | cryptoslate.comC

Visa Moves Massive Stablecoin Payments Pilot Into Production Phase

October 16 at 5:31 PM | news.bitcoin.com

Visa Direct Accelerates Cross-Border Money Movement With Stablecoin Prefunding

October 16 at 4:19 PM | pymnts.com

Coca-Cola, Visa and Mastercard Hit Records as Investors Rotate Out of Chip Stocks

October 16 at 1:53 PM | barrons.com

Visa Direct moves stablecoin payments into commercial deployment

October 16 at 7:57 AM | electronicpaymentsinternational.comE

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October 16 at 7:55 AM | marketbeat.com

Visa Inc. $V Stock Sold by First Merchants Corp

October 16 at 4:07 AM | marketbeat.com

Transferra Launches Visa Cards for Business and Private Clients

October 16 at 2:56 AM | finance.yahoo.com

Green card update: Microsoft president says Vance 'off base' on H-1B visa

October 15 at 9:52 PM | msn.com

Visa (V) Outperforms Broader Market: What You Need to Know

October 15 at 6:46 PM | zacks.com

Dow Jones Payments Giant Visa In Buy Zone Following This Week's Breakout Move

October 15 at 4:52 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Visa Shares Near 52-Week High as Stablecoin Payments Expand

October 15 at 2:30 PM | benzinga.com

Visa Direct Launches Stablecoin-Powered Money Movement as Pilots Move to Production

October 15 at 8:31 AM | financialpost.comF

Barclaycard Payments integrates Visa Unified Checkout in UK

October 15 at 6:51 AM | electronicpaymentsinternational.comE

Visa (NYSE:V) Shares Up 1.6% on Analyst Upgrade

October 15 at 1:21 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Visa wins approval to prepare for China payments business

October 14 at 12:39 PM | msn.com

Visa (V) Benefits from High Margins with Minimal Credit Exposure

October 14 at 12:39 PM | finance.yahoo.com

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V, AXP, and COST Company Descriptions

American Express NYSE:AXP

$313.47 -0.40 (-0.13%)

Closing price 10/16/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

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$313.00 -0.47 (-0.15%)

As of 10/16/2026 07:59 PM Eastern

American Express Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as integrated payments company in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Canada, the Caribbean, and Internationally. It operates through four segments: U.S. Consumer Services, Commercial Services, International Card Services, and Global Merchant and Network Services. The company's products and services include credit card, charge card, banking, and other payment and financing products; network services; expense management products and services; and travel and lifestyle services. It also provides merchant acquisition and processing, servicing and settlement, point-of-sale marketing, and information products and services for merchants; and fraud prevention services, as well as the design and operation of customer loyalty programs. In addition, the company operates lounges at airports under Centurion Lounge brand name. It sells its products and services to consumers, small businesses, mid-sized companies, and large corporations through mobile and online applications, affiliate marketing, customer referral programs, third-party service providers and business partners, direct mail, telephone, in-house sales teams, and direct response advertising. American Express Company was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Costco Wholesale NASDAQ:COST

$989.11 +11.10 (+1.13%)

Closing price 10/16/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$987.06 -2.06 (-0.21%)

As of 10/16/2026 07:59 PM Eastern

Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The company offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories. It offers merchandise, such as sundries, dry groceries, candies, coolers, freezers, deli, liquor, and tobacco; appliances, electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, garden and patio products, sporting goods, tires, toys and seasonal products, office supplies, automotive care products, postages, tickets, apparel, small appliances, furniture, domestics, housewares, special order kiosks, and jewelry; and meat, produce, service deli, and bakery products. The company also operates gasoline, pharmacies, optical, food courts, hearing-aid centers, and tire installation centers; and offers business delivery, travel, grocery, and various other services online. It also operates e-commerce websites. The company was formerly known as Costco Companies, Inc. and changed its name to Costco Wholesale Corporation in August 1999. Costco Wholesale Corporation was founded in 1976 and is based in Issaquah, Washington.

Visa NYSE:V

$403.05 +3.30 (+0.82%)

Closing price 10/16/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$401.44 -1.60 (-0.40%)

As of 10/16/2026 08:00 PM Eastern

Visa Inc. operates as a payment technology company in the United States and internationally. The company operates VisaNet, a transaction processing network that enables authorization, clearing, and settlement of payment transactions. It also offers credit, debit, and prepaid card products; tap to pay, tokenization, and click to pay services; Visa Direct, a solution that facilitates the delivery of funds to eligible cards, deposit accounts, and digital wallets; Visa B2B Connect, a multilateral business-to-business cross-border payments network; Visa Cross-Border Solution, a cross-border consumer payments solution; and Visa DPS that provides a range of value-added services, including fraud mitigation, dispute management, data analytics, campaign management, a suite of digital solutions, and contact center services. The company also provides acceptance solutions, which include Cybersource that provides modular and value-added services for connecting merchants to payment processing; risk and identity solutions, such as Visa Advanced Authorization, Visa Secure, Visa Risk and Decision Manager, Visa Consumer Authentication Service, and payment-decisioning solutions for fraud prevention; and Visa Consulting and Analytics, a payment consulting advisory services. It provides its services under the Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink, V PAY, and PLUS brand names. The company serves merchants, financial institutions, and government entities. Visa Inc. was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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