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American Express (AXP) Competitors

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$266.61 -0.41 (-0.15%)
As of 04/30/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

AXP vs. COF, DFS, SLM, CACC, NNI, EZPW, ECPG, WRLD, PRAA, and GDOT

Should you be buying American Express stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Express include Capital One Financial (COF), Discover Financial Services (DFS), SLM (SLM), Credit Acceptance (CACC), Nelnet (NNI), EZCORP (EZPW), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), World Acceptance (WRLD), PRA Group (PRAA), and Green Dot (GDOT). These companies are all part of the "consumer finance" industry.

American Express vs.

American Express (NYSE:AXP) and Capital One Financial (NYSE:COF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends and earnings.

American Express has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital One Financial has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

84.3% of American Express shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Capital One Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of American Express shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Capital One Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

American Express pays an annual dividend of $3.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Capital One Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. American Express pays out 22.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Capital One Financial pays out 20.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Capital One Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

American Express presently has a consensus price target of $295.05, suggesting a potential upside of 10.67%. Capital One Financial has a consensus price target of $207.73, suggesting a potential upside of 15.20%. Given Capital One Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Capital One Financial is more favorable than American Express.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
American Express
1 Sell rating(s)
15 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.29
Capital One Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.89

In the previous week, American Express had 13 more articles in the media than Capital One Financial. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for American Express and 41 mentions for Capital One Financial. Capital One Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat American Express' score of 0.77 indicating that Capital One Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
American Express
35 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
13 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Capital One Financial
25 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Capital One Financial received 91 more outperform votes than American Express when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.50% of users gave Capital One Financial an outperform vote while only 59.84% of users gave American Express an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
American ExpressOutperform Votes
1201
59.84%
Underperform Votes
806
40.16%
Capital One FinancialOutperform Votes
1292
64.50%
Underperform Votes
711
35.50%

American Express has higher revenue and earnings than Capital One Financial. Capital One Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Express, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
American Express$67.12B2.78$10.13B$14.3218.62
Capital One Financial$39.71B1.73$4.75B$11.9115.14

American Express has a net margin of 15.36% compared to Capital One Financial's net margin of 9.46%. American Express' return on equity of 32.65% beat Capital One Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
American Express15.36% 32.65% 3.56%
Capital One Financial 9.46%9.45%1.17%

Summary

Capital One Financial beats American Express on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AXP vs. The Competition

MetricAmerican ExpressNondepository credit institutions IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$186.78B$7.24B$11.11B$18.96B
Dividend Yield1.24%4.49%5.79%4.03%
P/E Ratio19.0316.6121.9932.71
Price / Sales2.7810.6326.0827.84
Price / Cash18.3642.1517.6017.53
Price / Book6.212.242.654.47
Net Income$10.13B$524.31M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-0.31%0.09%0.57%0.50%
1 Month Performance-1.37%0.69%-0.43%-2.83%
1 Year Performance15.19%11.88%537.63%4.36%

American Express Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AXP
American Express
4.7764 of 5 stars
$266.61
-0.2%
$295.05
+10.7%
+13.9%$186.78B$67.12B19.0377,300Insider Trade
Gap Down
COF
Capital One Financial
4.7126 of 5 stars
$182.39
-0.2%
$207.73
+13.9%
+25.7%$69.58B$39.71B15.7455,900
DFS
Discover Financial Services
4.6115 of 5 stars
$184.72
-0.1%
$188.91
+2.3%
+44.1%$46.48B$18.00B11.5720,200Positive News
Gap Down
SLM
SLM
4.5231 of 5 stars
$27.89
+0.5%
$30.73
+10.2%
+36.4%$5.87B$1.85B10.521,700Earnings Report
CACC
Credit Acceptance
1.8424 of 5 stars
$487.60
+0.9%
$440.00
-9.8%
-5.1%$5.86B$2.13B24.512,250Earnings Report
News Coverage
Positive News
NNI
Nelnet
4.0341 of 5 stars
$106.38
+0.6%
$98.00
-7.9%
+12.5%$3.86B$1.17B34.995,200Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
EZPW
EZCORP
2.7176 of 5 stars
$16.34
+0.1%
$16.88
+3.3%
+49.1%$896.11M$1.18B14.187,000Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
ECPG
Encore Capital Group
4.2745 of 5 stars
$34.48
+0.3%
$62.67
+81.8%
-16.3%$816.75M$1.32B-4.396,900Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
WRLD
World Acceptance
2.367 of 5 stars
$136.78
+2.0%
$10.00
-92.7%
-6.1%$786.05M$515.56M9.553,120Earnings Report
News Coverage
Positive News
PRAA
PRA Group
4.4508 of 5 stars
$18.47
+1.2%
$32.00
+73.3%
-23.1%$729.39M$1.12B10.313,280Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
Positive News
GDOT
Green Dot
4.1199 of 5 stars
$8.22
+0.3%
$10.75
+30.9%
-4.4%$444.96M$1.72B-7.811,200Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News

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