2.67% volatility in American Express Co (AXP) last month: This is a red flag warning

A new trading day began on Tuesday, with American Express Co (NYSE: AXP) stock price down -2.27% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $261.32. AXP’s price has ranged from $214.51 to $326.27 over the past 52 weeks.

A company in the Financial sector has jumped its sales by 10.84% annually for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 9.20%. With a float of $701.46 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $702.00 million.

In an organization with 75100 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 69.7%, operating margin of 20.7%, and the pretax margin is 18.41%.

American Express Co (AXP) Insider Updates

As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Credit Services Industry. The insider ownership of American Express Co is 0.15%, while institutional ownership is 86.33%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 07 ’25, was worth 998,593. In this transaction Director of this company bought 3,700 shares at a rate of $269.89, taking the stock ownership to the 3,700 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 04 ’25, when Company’s Group Pres., GMNS sold 21,955 for $287.88, making the entire transaction worth $6,320,504. This insider now owns 25,761 shares in total.

American Express Co (AXP) Performance Highlights and Predictions

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.87 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.20% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.91% during the next five years compared to 11.90% growth over the previous five years of trading.

American Express Co (NYSE: AXP) Trading Performance Indicators

Here are American Express Co’s current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.42. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 14.79.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 14.01, a number that is poised to hit 3.56 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 17.55 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of American Express Co (AXP)

Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 3.71 million. That was better than the volume of 2.68 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 11.35%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 8.60.

During the past 100 days, American Express Co’s (AXP) raw stochastic average was set at 2.54%, which indicates a significant decrease from 3.28% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 28.04% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 26.71% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $303.45, while its 200-day Moving Average is $271.67. However, in the short run, American Express Co’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $259.24. Second resistance stands at $263.09. The third major resistance level sits at $265.94. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $252.54, it is likely to go to the next support level at $249.69. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $245.84.

American Express Co (NYSE: AXP) Key Stats

With a market capitalization of 179.42 billion, the company has a total of 702,532K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 74,201 M while annual income is 10,129 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 19,218 M while its latest quarter income was 2,170 M.