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American Express Company (AXP)

NYSE / Financial Services / Financial - Credit Services

Share price

313.87 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

212.00B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 6, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
11, FY2015 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

32.4% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

20.37x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

7.3% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 35.44B USDFY2016 Net income: 5.38B USDFY2017 Revenue: 36.88B USDFY2017 Net income: 2.75B USDFY2018 Revenue: 40.34B USDFY2018 Net income: 6.92B USDFY2019 Revenue: 43.56B USDFY2019 Net income: 6.76B USDFY2020 Revenue: 36.09B USDFY2020 Net income: 3.13B USDFY2021 Revenue: 42.38B USDFY2021 Net income: 8.06B USDFY2022 Revenue: 52.86B USDFY2022 Net income: 7.51B USDFY2023 Revenue: 60.52B USDFY2023 Net income: 8.37B USDFY2024 Revenue: 65.95B USDFY2024 Net income: 10.13B USDFY2025 Revenue: 72.23B USDFY2025 Net income: 10.83B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
1 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 20.37x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Financial - Credit Services industry (44 companies), 20.37x sits at the 77th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 6.18x to 19.36x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 32.4% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Exceptional, check the leverage" (25.0% and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting high returns on shareholders' money, which leverage can also produce.

Today, against the Financial - Credit Services industry (55 companies), 32.4% sits at the 90th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 5.0% to 20.8%.

Is it safe

Debt to equity was 1.76 in FY2025, in the band labelled "Leveraged" (1.00 to 2.00), on lines anchored on Graham's defensive-investor criteria.

Today, against the Financial Services sector (76 companies), 1.76 sits at the 84th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 0.23 to 1.44.

Year by year against peers
Whether American Express Company's return on equity stayed above the median of the Financial - Credit Services industry, year by year. (FY2017 to FY2025, 9 fiscal years of American Express Company with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way American Express Company's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of American Express Company)
What could explain it
What in American Express Company's filed statements could explain the movements. (5 readings drawn from the statement lines American Express Company filed)
What to check next
What to check next on American Express Company, and where in its filings. (1 question for American Express Company)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on American Express Company's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (9 of sixteen figures read for American Express Company)

These are AXP’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, accession 0000004962-26-000080.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

American Express Company: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

No operating income line is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Return on equity32.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Return on capital employed, pre-tax
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Return on assets3.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Operating margin
Why n/a

No operating income line is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Net margin15.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
AXP 15.0%
C 16.8%MUFG 14.6%WFC 25.5%MS 23.9%GS 29.5%
14.6%29.5%
Net margin: AXP against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

American Express Company: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity1.76 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Current ratio
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Quick ratio
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No operating income line is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Altman Z-score
Why n/m

Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Net debt10.36B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Total assets 300.05BTotal liabilities 266.58BShareholders' equity 33.47BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What American Express Company owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080).

American Express Company: balance sheet position
Total assets300.05B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026
Total liabilities266.58B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026
Shareholders' equity33.47B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026
Cash48.53B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026
Total debt58.89B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026
Net debt10.36B
Current ration/a
Debt to equity1.76
  • Current ratio: FY2025: Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.
  • Interest cover: FY2025: No operating income line is filed for this year.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

American Express Company: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings20.37x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
P/E on trailing twelve months18.81x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book6.53x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Price to sales3.02x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Price to earnings over growth0.63 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Diluted earnings per share15.38 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Graham number129.13 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value AXP on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for American Express Company today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

American Express Company: valuation
Share price313.87 USD
Market capitalisation212.00B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham number129.13 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY202515.38 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 8.63x, median 18.75x, high 39.86x, latest 18.81x. 2,521 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like American Express Company

  1. Citigroup Inc. (C)Market cap 206.60B USD
  2. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG)Market cap 246.10B USD
  3. Wells Fargo & Company (WFC)Market cap 250.20B USD
  4. Morgan Stanley (MS)Market cap 287.20B USD
  5. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS)Market cap 259.50B USD

Same sector (Financial Services) and size band (Mega, 200B and over), nearest in market value and net margin. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

American Express Company: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield7.3% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Free cash flow16.00B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Free cash flow margin22.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Dividend yield1.2% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Payout ratio20.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
FY2016 Free cash flow: 6.92B USDFY2016 Net income: 5.38B USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 12.48B USDFY2017 Net income: 2.75B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 7.62B USDFY2018 Net income: 6.92B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 11.99B USDFY2019 Net income: 6.76B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 4.11B USDFY2020 Net income: 3.13B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 13.10B USDFY2021 Net income: 8.06B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 19.22B USDFY2022 Net income: 7.51B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 17.00B USDFY2023 Net income: 8.37B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 12.14B USDFY2024 Net income: 10.13B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 16.00B USDFY2025 Net income: 10.83B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

American Express Company: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
20.37xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
6.53xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no operating income.
7.3%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Feb 6, 2026
n/a No operating income line is filed for this year.
1.2%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.76FY2025Feb 6, 2026
n/aFY2025Feb 6, 2026
n/a Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.
3.02xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.63FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/mFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
-2.53FY2025Feb 6, 2026
4/9FY2025Feb 6, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 11 filed fiscal years on record, FY2015 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports American Express Company filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

American Express Company: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202572.23Bn/a10.83B15.3816.00Bn/a32.4%10-K, Feb 6, 20260000004962-26-000080
FY202465.95Bn/a10.13B14.0112.14Bn/a33.5%10-K, Feb 7, 20250000004962-25-000016
FY202360.52B17.36B8.37B11.2117.00Bn/a29.9%10-K, Feb 9, 20240000004962-24-000013
FY202252.86B12.35B7.51B9.8519.22Bn/a30.4%10-K, Feb 10, 20230000004962-23-000006
FY202142.38B11.97B8.06B10.0213.10Bn/a36.3%10-K, Feb 11, 20220000004962-22-000008
FY202036.09B6.39B3.13B3.774.11Bn/a13.6%10-K, Feb 12, 20210000004962-21-000013
FY201943.56B11.89B6.76B7.9911.99Bn/a29.3%10-K, Feb 13, 20200000004962-20-000030
FY201840.34B11.06B6.92B7.917.62Bn/a31.1%10-K, Feb 13, 20190000004962-19-000018
FY201736.88B9.54B2.75B2.9912.48Bn/a15.1%10-K, Feb 16, 20180000004962-18-000032
FY201635.44B9.75B5.38B5.616.92Bn/a26.2%10-K, Feb 17, 20170001193125-17-047588
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 8.2%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 8.1%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 11.9%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 9.8%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

American Express Company: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.53 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Piotroski F-score4/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000004962-26-000080
Named tests met1 of 30 Computed
Beta1.23 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 1 met, 24 not met, 5 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); Cash-flow yield and ROIC. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(9)
  • Current Ratio: Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.
  • EV/EBIT: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Invested Capital: No operating income line is filed for this year.
  • Altman Z-Score: Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: No operating income line is filed for this year.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Ncav: Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 9 figures could not be read on this company, among them Current Ratio, EV/EBIT, Return on Invested Capital. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 5 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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