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

325.40 0.43 +0.13%
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) P/E ratio

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As of 5 November 2026, American Express Company (AXP) trades at a P/E ratio of 18.3×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 8.6× (March 2020) to 39.9× (March 2021); the current reading is higher than 57% of that period. That is above the Credit Services industry median of 9.0× and above the Financial sector median of 12.2×.

P/E ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
FY2025 24.0× 13.72%
FY2024 21.1× 26.06%
FY2023 16.8× 12.27%
FY2022 14.9× (8.61%)
FY2021 16.3× (49.04%)
FY2020 32.1× 106.36%
FY2019 15.5× 29.30%
FY2018 12.0× (64.65%)
FY2017 34.0× 154.94%
FY2016 13.3× (3.17%)

Quarterly newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
Sep 2026 17.1× (16.62%)
Jun 2026 20.5× 8.71%
Mar 2026 18.9× (21.55%)
Dec 2025 24.0× 7.83%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 8.6× High 39.9×
Ten-year median 17.5×
Current reading's percentile 53

P/E ratio against peers

Company P/E ratio
SYF Synchrony Financial compare 7.7×
ALLY Ally Financial Inc. compare 8.8×
PYPL PayPal Holdings, Inc. compare 11.2×
AFRM Affirm Holdings, Inc. compare 11.8×
COF Capital One Financial Corporation compare 12.1×
AXP American Express Company 18.3×
SOFI SoFi Technologies, Inc. compare 27.8×
V Visa Inc. compare 32.7×
MA Mastercard Incorporated compare 34.2×
Credit Services industry median 9.0×
Financial sector median 12.2×
Market median 17.9×

What P/E ratio is

Price to Earnings Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual profit per share.

Stock Price ÷ EPS (Basic) (TTM)

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