AXPAmerican Express
American Express is a global payments and premium lifestyle brand powered by technology. 10-K, Item 1
- Employees
- 76,800
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- CEO
- Stephen J. Squeri
- Next results
- around Jan 29, 2027
Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
prospectuses (S-3, 424B) of the last three years and the 10-K cash flow From EDGARShares offered
Since Nov 11, 2023: 1 shelf registration.
- Feb 9, 2024 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
Every offering filing →“Units Guarantees American Express Company may offer from time to time in one or more series: • unsecured debt securities, preferred shares, depositary shares, common shares, warrants to purchase debt securities, preferred shares, depositary shares, common shares or equity securities issued by one of our affiliated or unaffiliated corporations or other entities, warrants relating to other items or indices, units, and …”
S-3ASR, Feb 9, 2024 ↗
Diluted shares: 696.00M in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 -2.4%2024 -3.1%2023 -2.1%2022 -4.8%
Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How
No cash flow chart for banks and insurers: their operating cash flow moves with loans, deposits and trading, so it says little about how cash was spent.
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | $5.8B | $2.3B | $551.0M | $57.0M | 696.00M |
| 2024-12-31 | $6.0B | $2.0B | $504.0M | $100.0M | 713.00M |
| 2023-12-31 | $3.6B | $1.8B | $450.0M | $28.0M | 736.00M |
| 2022-12-31 | $3.5B | $1.6B | $375.0M | $56.0M | 752.00M |
| 2021-12-31 | $7.7B | $1.4B | $330.0M | $64.0M | 790.00M |
From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; dividends = PaymentsOfDividends; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; issuance = ProceedsFromIssuanceOfCommonStock; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.
Price paid per share
What AXP paid on average for each share it bought back, each fiscal year: dollars spent divided by shares bought, both from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year to | Shares bought | Spent | Average price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 17.00M | $5.3B | $312.41 | |
| 2024-12-31 | 24.00M | $5.9B | $244.04 | |
| 2023-12-31 | 22.00M | $3.5B | $159.95 | |
| 2022-12-31 | 20.00M | $3.3B | $166.60 | |
| 2021-12-31 | 46.00M | $7.6B | $165.17 | |
| 2020-12-31 | 7.00M | $875.0M | $125.00 | |
| 2019-12-31 | 40.00M | $4.6B | $114.62 | |
| 2018-12-31 | 15.00M | $1.6B | $104.67 | |
| 2017-12-31 | 50.00M | $4.3B | $86.28 | |
| 2014-12-31 | 49.00M | $4.4B | $89.35 |
Shares and dollars from the statement of shareholders' equity (the cash flow line also counts shares withheld for taxes, so it is not used). Share counts filed before a stock split are put on today's count. A year where the 10-K does not tag both numbers is left out.
Work on AXP in a spreadsheet:
Excel workbook (a sheet per section, ten years by column, charts, links to the filings) ·
CSV.
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