American Express Company

AXP Financial Credit Services

American Express Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $80.5 billion, up 8.44% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+6.92%
EPS
+31.2%
Free cash flow
−20.5%
Total debt
+1.30%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

325.97 6.62 −1.99%
Market cap
$217.9B
P/E
18.3×
Fwd P/E
17.4×
Dividend yield
1.13%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

American Express Company (AXP) Free cash flow margin

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American Express Company's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 16.3%, down 3.6 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (19.9%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 10.8% (fiscal 2020) to 34.6% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Credit Services industry median of 8.73% and above the Financial sector median of 11.4%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 19.9% 3.53
FY2024 16.4% (8.87)
FY2023 25.2% (9.33)
FY2022 34.6% 4.57
FY2021 30.0% 19.22
FY2020 10.8% (14.72)
FY2019 25.5% 7.88
FY2018 17.6% (14.39)
FY2017 32.0% 13.38
FY2016 18.6% (8.57)

Against its own ten years

Low 10.8% High 34.6%
Ten-year median 25.2%
Current reading's percentile 45

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
V Visa Inc. compare 48.1%
MA Mastercard Incorporated compare 42.5%
SYF Synchrony Financial compare 41.2%
COF Capital One Financial Corporation compare 33.1%
ALLY Ally Financial Inc. compare 30.9%
PYPL PayPal Holdings, Inc. compare 18.4%
AFRM Affirm Holdings, Inc. compare 17.8%
AXP American Express Company 16.3%
SOFI SoFi Technologies, Inc. compare −167.0%
Credit Services industry median 8.73%
Financial sector median 11.4%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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