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American Express Company

AXP

Financial Services · 324.78 +1.3% today

Isolated · not yet confirmedMarket checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4

Market read

American Express Company's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.

No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 19 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 25 directly disclosed connections are confirming.

Company+1.3% todayVolume comparison unavailable
Market group0 of 19 activeConsumer Health & Finance · unavailable
Disclosed network0 of 8 confirmingNo filing-linked name is confirming now
What would change this read
  • AXP's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.

Invalidation: The isolated read changes if AXP's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.

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Research brief

The story so far

Financial Services · Credit Services

No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 19 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 25 directly disclosed connections are confirming.

Evidence that supports

No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.

Evidence that challenges

No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.

What would clarify the read
  • AXP's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.

Company research

Understand the business, not just the ticker

As of Sep 12, 2026
Business model and earnings drivers

Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.

Key research questions
  • Which operating variable is changing?
  • Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
  • What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
Annual periods9
Price observations594
Usable filing statements300
Verified relationships14
Evidence supporting the case
  • Latest annual revenue changed +6.4% year over year.
  • Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.70x in the latest annual period.
  • Credit and interest rates has repeated favorable evidence across 4 filings.
  • Macroeconomic conditions has repeated favorable evidence across 4 filings.
  • Foreign exchange has repeated favorable evidence across 3 filings.
Evidence challenging the case

No qualifying adverse evidence was identified; that is not proof there is no downside.

Questions before a position

No credible peer-relative valuation comparison is available yet.

Longer-term price context

Price as of Sep 11, 2026

324.78
6m+5.6%12m-0.7%24m+27.9%
Annual trajectory

Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.

PeriodRevenueYoYDiluted EPSShare change
2021-12-31$27.7B+26.1%$10.02-2.0%
2022-12-31$34.2B+23.5%$9.85-4.8%
2023-12-31$37.2B+8.8%$11.21-2.1%
2024-12-31$38.8B+4.3%$14.01-3.1%
2025-12-31$41.3B+6.4%$15.38-2.4%

What management says matters

Persistent and emerging business drivers

Credit and interest ratesmixed · 4 filings
Net interest income increased, primarily due to higher interest expense credit, which was primarily driven by an increase in average merchant payables, partially offset by lower interest rates in international markets.
10-Q · Apr 23, 2026
Macroeconomic conditionspositive · 4 filings
Reserve build (release) — Represents the portion of the provisions for credit losses for the period related to increasing or decreasing reserves for credit losses as a result of, among other things, changes in volumes, macroeconomic outlook, portfolio composi…
10-Q · Apr 23, 2026
Foreign exchangepositive · 3 filings
Service fees and other revenue increased 6 percent, primarily driven by increases in network partnership revenues and foreign exchange-related revenues associated with Card Member cross-currency spending, partially offset by Accertify revenues included in the…
10-K · Feb 6, 2026
Supply chain and availabilitymixed · 3 filings
Salaries and employee benefits and other expenses increased, primarily driven by the gain in the prior year recognized on the sale of Accertify included in the Other, net component of operating expenses, partially offset by a decrease in allocated service cos…
10-K · Feb 6, 2026

Valuation discipline

Peer-relative valuation withheld

Jodie found no industry-matched filing peers suitable for a valuation comparison. It will not substitute broader financial-sector names.

Scenario scaffold

Scenarios are withheld for Financial Services until sector-specific earnings and capital metrics are available; generic revenue/P/S scaffolds would be misleading.

Price action

How the market is pricing the story

324.78+1.3% today

Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.

Developments

No sourced recent-development timeline yet

Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for AXP. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.

Business and financial condition

Reported financial figures are not available yet

Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.

Filing analysis

No comparable filing assessment is available yet

Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for AXP. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.

Business ecosystem

The relationships behind AXP

Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.

Depends on

GBTGGlobal Business Travel Group, Inc.investeeApr 23, 2026

Our embedded derivative related to seller earnout shares granted to us upon the completion of a business combination in the second quarter of 2022 between our equity method investee, American Express Global Business Travel, and Apollo Strategic Growth Capital…

DALDelta Air Lines, Inc.partnerFeb 6, 2026

There are many examples of how we work with partners, including: issuing cards under cobrand arrangements with other corporations and institutions (e.g., Delta Air Lines (Delta), Marriott International, British Airways and Hilton Worldwide Holdings); providin…

Depended on by

GPGIGPGI, Inc.customerMar 12, 2026

The company’s leading position is reinforced by long-standing customer relationships with leading bank issuers like American Express, JPMorgan Chase and Capital One, and financial technology companies like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Gemini.

Filing peers

Companies whose filings use similar operating language.

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What is moving around it

Live connections

AXP is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Consumer Health & Finance. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.

This group is retained as the last observed read for AXP; it is not active in the latest market snapshot.

Context history

Theme membership history

No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.