American Express Co (AXP) ticks all the boxes for top investors with its surprise performance of 5.04% last month.

On Friday, American Express Co (NYSE: AXP) was 0.61% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $300.30. A 52-week range for AXP has been $170.15 – $307.82.

Annual sales at Financial sector company grew by 10.54% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 24.23%. With a float of $703.51 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $704.00 million.

Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 74600 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 59.29%, operating margin of 24.77%, and the pretax margin is 18.43%.

American Express Co (AXP) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward American Express Co stocks. The insider ownership of American Express Co is 0.13%, while institutional ownership is 84.66%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 27 ’24, was worth 1,820,880. In this transaction Chief Financial Officer of this company sold 6,000 shares at a rate of $303.48, taking the stock ownership to the 6,433 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 27 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 6,600 for $303.48, making the entire transaction worth $2,002,976.

American Express Co (AXP) Latest Financial update

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.58 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 24.23% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 15.00% during the next five years compared to 7.25% growth over the previous five years of trading.

American Express Co (NYSE: AXP) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what American Express Co (AXP) is doing with its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.94. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 16.23.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 13.60, a number that is poised to hit 3.01 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 15.15 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of American Express Co (AXP)

American Express Co (NYSE: AXP) saw its 5-day average volume 2.15 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 2.86 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 52.99%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 5.31.

During the past 100 days, American Express Co’s (AXP) raw stochastic average was set at 93.38%, which indicates a significant increase from 51.29% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 16.02% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 27.18% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $285.87, while its 200-day Moving Average is $250.43. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $303.89 in the near term. At $305.64, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $306.97. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $300.82, it is likely to go to the next support level at $299.49. The third support level lies at $297.74 if the price breaches the second support level.

American Express Co (NYSE: AXP) Key Stats

There are 704,445K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 214.15 billion. As of now, sales total 67,364 M while income totals 8,374 M. Its latest quarter income was 18,779 M while its last quarter net income were 2,507 M.