American Express Stock Forecast, Price & News

American Express' stock was trading at $95.38 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AXP stock has increased by 0.2% and is now trading at $95.56.
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25 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for American Express in the last year. There are currently 6 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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American Express is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, January 22nd 2021.
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American Express (NYSE:AXP) posted its earnings results on Friday, October, 23rd. The payment services company reported $1.30 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.39 by $0.09. The payment services company had revenue of $8.75 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $8.71 billion. American Express had a return on equity of 21.28% and a net margin of 8.84%. The firm's revenue was down 20.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $2.08 EPS.
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American Express announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, September 29th. Stockholders of record on Friday, October 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.43 per share on Tuesday, November 10th. This represents a $1.72 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.80%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, October 8th.
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25 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month target prices for American Express' stock. Their forecasts range from $85.00 to $130.00. On average, they expect American Express' stock price to reach $105.22 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.1% from the stock's current price.
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News stories about AXP stock have been trending extremely negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. American Express earned a news sentiment score of -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the payment services company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.
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American Express saw a decrease in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totaling 7,640,000 shares, a decrease of 27.7% from the September 15th total of 10,570,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,000,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.9 days. Currently, 1.0% of the company's stock are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to American Express include Capital One Financial (COF), Discover Financial Services (DFS), Credit Acceptance (CACC), SLM (SLM), Green Dot (GDOT), Nelnet (NNI), FirstCash (FCFS), PRA Group (PRAA), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), World Acceptance (WRLD), EZCORP (EZPW), Regional Management (RM), Nicholas Financial (NICK) and Asta Funding (ASFI).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other American Express investors own include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), The Walt Disney (DIS), Intel (INTC), Visa (V), AT&T (T), NVIDIA (NVDA), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Bank of America (BAC), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Verizon Communications (VZ).

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

American Express' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Standard Life Aberdeen plc (0.17%), M&G Investment Management Ltd. (0.15%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.08%), Focused Investors LLC (0.08%), Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.07%) and Cacti Asset Management LLC (0.06%). Company insiders that own American Express stock include Denise Pickett, Jeffrey C Campbell, Laureen Seeger, Michael John O'neill, Paul D Fabara, Raymond Joabar, Richard Petrino, Stephen J Squeri and Theodore Leonsis.
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AXP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Focused Investors LLC, Ziegler Capital Management LLC, Country Trust Bank, Retirement Systems of Alabama, Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., Gradient Investments LLC, Standard Life Aberdeen plc, and Redpoint Investment Management Pty Ltd. Company insiders that have sold American Express company stock in the last year include Denise Pickett, Laureen Seeger, Raymond Joabar, Richard Petrino, Stephen J Squeri, and Theodore Leonsis.
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AXP stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including WestEnd Advisors LLC, M&G Investment Management Ltd., Bradley Foster & Sargent Inc. CT, Campbell Newman Asset Management Inc., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Psagot Investment House Ltd., Douglas Lane & Associates LLC, and Forsta AP Fonden.
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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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of AXP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $95.56.

American Express has a market capitalization of $76.94 billion and generates $43.56 billion in revenue each year. The payment services company earns $6.76 billion in net income (profit) each year or $8.20 on an earnings per share basis. American Express employs 64,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for American Express is www.americanexpress.com.

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]