American Express Co. (NYSE:AXP) does about 3.08M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 3501166 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 159.14B USD. Its current market price is $219.84, marking a decrease of -1.91% compared to the previous close of $224.11. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $231.69 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $140.91.
American Express Co. (AXP) has a 20-day trading average at $224.09 and the current price is -5.11% off the 52-week high compared with 56.01% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $217.30 and its 200-day simple moving average is $178.40. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.16%, which decreases to 1.63% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 47.13 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $222.29, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 1.1% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on Apr-10-24 when Barclays downgraded the stock to “Equal Weight” and issued a price target of between $220 and $221. Monness Crespi & Hardt upgraded the stock to “Buy” from Neutral on April 05, 2024 at a price target of $245. Morgan Stanley downgraded its price target at $212-$222.
American Express Co. (AXP) stock is down -2.52% over the week and -1.58% over the past month. Its price is 17.35% year-to-date and 38.41% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/30/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of $2.62 below consensus estimates by -$0.02. AXP’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 14.50% this year and 15.10% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $16.51 billion, which analysts say will come at $66.19 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $71.73 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $15.79 billion.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 1.1 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 723.00M with insiders holding 21.06% of the shares and institutional holders owning 65.27% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 12.59% and return on equity of 31.50%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 19.60 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 14.89. The beta has a value of 1.23. Price to book ratio is 5.67 and price to sales ratio is 2.36.
