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. Investors of record on Friday, July 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.35 per share on Friday, August 10th. This represents a $1.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.39%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 5th. View American Express' Dividend History.

American Express declared that its board has approved a share buyback plan on Thursday, June 29th 2017, which authorizes the company to buyback $4,400,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 5.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

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

American Express is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July, 18th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for American Express.

American Express issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Wednesday, March, 7th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $6.90-7.30 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $7.12.

26 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for American Express' shares. Their predictions range from $86.00 to $128.00. On average, they expect American Express' share price to reach $107.2229 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for American Express.

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Media headlines about AXP stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news 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 news sentiment score of 0.09 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the payment services company an impact score of 47.67 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.

American Express' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders 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, 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, Marc D Gordon, Michael John O'neill, Paul D Fabara, 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., State Treasurer State of Michigan, Findlay Park Partners LLP, Great Lakes Advisors LLC and Artisan Partners Limited Partnership. 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 $100.99.

American Express has a market capitalization of $86.89 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]