A first draft, for you to edit
What you would be watching on AXP
This would already have written to you once. Debt to Equity was 2.82x in 2019, past the line below, and the filing landed 2020-02-13.
American Express Company on NYSE. Every line below is a multiple of this company’s own current figure. It is yours to accept, edit or drop.
| The number | Today | Your line | Room | Last broke |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt to Equitystays at or below 2.2x | 1.76x | 2.2x | 0.44x | 2019at 2.82x, filed 2020-02-13 |
| Revenue Growth 1Ystays at or above 0% | 9.52% | 0% | 9.52% | 2020at -17.15%, filed 2021-02-12 |
| Dividend Ratestays at or above $3.76 | $3.80 | $3.76 | $0.04 | No test against the past |
2 of these would have written to you: the year in the last column is the most recent fiscal year that rule was false, read from the annual accounts this company filed with the SEC.
What this cannot tell you
What the numbers say today, not the day one stops being true. The reasons are not written down.
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What this draft cannot do(7 noted)
- Dividend Rate is watched every night and has no honest test against the past. This indicator depends on inputs (market price, multi-statement composites) whose history is not deep enough to re-derive it with the same formula as the live value, so no honest retro-test exists for it.
- Return on Invested Capital was not proposed. No operating income line is filed for this year.
- Price stays below your value was not proposed. A margin of safety is measured against your own estimate of what the company is worth: a target price you write on the thesis, or a discounted cash flow you save. Neither exists without an account, and we will not stand a number of our own in its place.
- Shares Outstanding (filed) was not proposed. We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
- Current Ratio was not proposed. 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.
- Gross Margin was not proposed. 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.
- Altman Z-Score was not proposed. 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.
- 30 further fiscal years are on record here and not printed above, because they came from a commercial data feed rather than from a filing you can open.
Every line below is a multiple of this company's own current figure, offered for you to accept or edit, not a recommendation and not advice. Computed from accounts filed with the SEC. Past filings do not indicate future results. Risk disclaimer.