American Express (AXP) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
American Express's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
AXP closed at $336.00 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -1.8% from its 50-day average and -0.8% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “pullback below trend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +8.5%, beating SPY by 5.4%. It remains 13.3% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -1.8% from its 50-day average and -0.8% from its 200-day average. Over three months, AXP returned +8.5% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -1.8%
- vs 200-day
- -0.8%
- From 52W high
- -13.3%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
AXP appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 0 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 0 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.34, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. No archived session has cleared the issuer-level top-30 cutoff.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| No issuer-level top-30 flags in the current archive. | ||
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.041 calls, 0.066 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
2 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long American Express position in their latest filing, worth $51.3B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett · AXP | $51.3B | 17.14% | 151.61M | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · AXP | $913,275 | 0.00% | 2,700 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open AXP Financials →How AXP trades — the working manual
American Express both issues cards and runs its own payment network, so it earns discount revenue on spending, fee revenue from premium memberships and net interest income on the loans it carries. That makes it a payments company and a lender at once. For the stock, billed business and card-fee growth show demand, while provisions and write-offs show what the credit cycle is doing to the balance sheet.
What can move the tape
- 01Billed business, discount revenue and spending by consumer, small-business and corporate customers.
- 02Card-fee growth, premium product refreshes and retention among fee-paying members.
- 03Net interest income, loan growth and the mix between transactors and revolvers.
- 04Provisions, delinquency and net write-off rates across the lending portfolio.
What can fool the read
- 01The headline top line is revenue net of interest expense; contract-revenue subtotals understate the company materially.
- 02Credit costs are cyclical and provisions can move earnings faster than spending trends change.
- 03Rewards, partner payments and marketing scale with billings and compress margins if spending slows.
- 04A premium, travel-weighted customer base concentrates exposure to discretionary and corporate travel.
No AXP flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. That means no session cleared this project's anomaly threshold; it does not mean trading volume was literally constant.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported AXP events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
AXP stock questions
Is AXP stock in an uptrend?+
AXP is classified in the “pullback below trend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -1.8% from its 50-day average and -0.8% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in AXP mean?+
AXP has not appeared in either issuer-level top-30 list during the current archive. A future flag would identify an OTM chain outlier relative to the scanner universe. It would identify no buyer, seller, institution or spread leg.
Are the AXP 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are AXP's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated AXP Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no AXP earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.