NYSE:AXP - American Express Stock Price, Price Target & More

American Express trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AXP."

American Express announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 8th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 6th will be given a dividend of $0.35 per share on Friday, August 10th. This represents a $1.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.44%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 5th. View American Express' Dividend History.

American Express announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback program on Thursday, June 29th 2017, which permits the company to buyback $4,400,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 5.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

American Express (NYSE:AXP) released its earnings results on Wednesday, April, 18th. The payment services company reported $1.86 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.71 by $0.15. The payment services company earned $9.72 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.49 billion. American Express had a return on equity of 28.41% and a net margin of 8.79%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 11.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.34 earnings per share. View American Express' Earnings History.

American Express is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 17th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for American Express.

26 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for American Express' stock. Their forecasts range from $86.00 to $128.00. On average, they anticipate American Express' share price to reach $107.2229 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for American Express.

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Headlines about AXP stock have trended somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. American Express earned a coverage optimism score of 0.10 on Accern's scale. They also gave news stories about the payment services company an impact score of 44.92 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

American Express' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (5.06%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.00%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (1.71%), First Eagle Investment Management LLC (1.50%), Veritas Asset Management LLP (1.39%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.15%). Company insiders that own American Express stock include Anre D Williams, Ashwini Gupta, Douglas E Buckminster, James Peter Bush, Jeffrey C Campbell, John Joseph Brennan, Kenneth I Chenault, L Kevin Cox, Linda Zukauckas, Marc D Gordon, Michael John O'neill, Paul D Fabara, Richard Petrino, Stephen J Squeri, Susan Sobbott and Zita Peach. View Institutional Ownership Trends for American Express.

AXP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fisher Asset Management LLC, OppenheimerFunds Inc., Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, Prudential Financial Inc., First Pacific Advisors LLC, Becker Capital Management Inc., State of Tennessee Treasury Department and Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC. Company insiders that have sold American Express company stock in the last year include Anre D Williams, Ashwini Gupta, Douglas E Buckminster, James Peter Bush, Jeffrey C Campbell, Kenneth I Chenault, L Kevin Cox, Linda Zukauckas, Michael John O'neill, Paul D Fabara, Richard Petrino, Stephen J Squeri and Susan Sobbott. View Insider Buying and Selling for American Express.

AXP stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Boston Partners, Veritas Asset Management LLP, American Century Companies Inc., BlackRock Inc., Summit Trail Advisors LLC, State Treasurer State of Michigan, Findlay Park Partners LLP and Great Lakes Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have bought American Express stock in the last two years include John Joseph Brennan and Zita Peach. View Insider Buying and Selling for American Express.

Shares of AXP can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AXP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $97.14.

American Express has a market capitalization of $84.76 billion and generates $33.47 billion in revenue each year. The payment services company earns $2.74 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.87 on an earnings per share basis. American Express employs 55,000 workers across the globe.

American Express' mailing address is 200 VESEY STREET, NEW YORK NY, 10285. The payment services company can be reached via phone at 212-640-2000 or via email at [email protected]