American Express Financial Overview
Stock Ticker Symbol: AXP
52-Week High $46.35
52-Week Low $26.55
Brief Financial Synopsis and History
American Express and its subsidiaries provide travel related services, financial advisory services and international banking services worldwide. For the three months ended 3/31/03, revenues rose 5% to $6.02 billion. Net income increased 12% to $692 million. Revenues reflect wider yields and loan balance growth. Earnings reflect lower sales force compensation and the benefit of reengineering and cost-controls. Financial Highlights from 2002
Net income was $2.67 billion, up from $1.31 billion in 2001. Diluted earnings per share (EPS) rose to $2.01, up from $0.98 a year ago. Return on equity was 20.6 percent, compared with 10.9 percent in 2001. Revenues totaled $23.8 billion, up 5 percent from $22.6 billion in 2001.
Stock prices from the past 12 months:
Date |
Open |
High |
Low |
Close |
Volume |
Adj. Close |
Jul 03 |
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Jul 03 |
41.34 |
46.35 |
41.04 |
44.17 |
4,492,872 |
44.17 |
Jun 03 |
42.00 |
44.84 |
41.81 |
41.81 |
4,939,266 |
41.71 |
May 03 |
37.86 |
42.20 |
37.00 |
41.66 |
5,785,819 |
41.56 |
Apr 03 |
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Apr 03 |
33.24 |
38.50 |
32.86 |
37.86 |
5,497,252 |
37.77 |
Mar 03 |
33.80 |
37.98 |
30.90 |
33.23 |
6,128,752 |
33.07 |
Feb 03 |
35.65 |
36.14 |
31.92 |
33.58 |
4,696,605 |
33.42 |
Jan 02 |
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Jan 03 |
35.80 |
38.95 |
32.55 |
35.53 |
4,868,652 |
35.36 |
Dec 02 |
38.94 |
39.75 |
34.53 |
35.35 |
3,627,076 |
35.18 |
Nov 02 |
36.17 |
39.84 |
34.45 |
38.93 |
5,216,155 |
38.66 |
Oct 02 |
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Oct 02 |
31.30 |
36.50 |
26.55 |
36.37 |
6,664,804 |
36.12 |
Sep 02 |
35.55 |
36.15 |
30.25 |
31.18 |
5,275,870 |
30.89 |
Aug 02 |
34.35 |
38.47 |
30.20 |
36.06 |
4,640,831 |
35.72 |
Jul 02 |
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Jul 02 |
36.65 |
37.98 |
26.92 |
35.26 |
7,255,118 |
34.93 |
Growth Rates |
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. |
1 year |
3 years |
5 years |
Sales % |
5.43 |
3.81 |
6.04 |
EPS % |
104.69 |
3.58 |
7.71 |
Dividend % |
0.00 |
2.18 |
1.30 |
*data from MultexInvestor.com, and finance.yahoo.com