American Express Company: dividend
Price
$320.60
November 13, 2026Market cap $220B
What Ploutos Investor adds for American Express
Part of Ploutos Investor, €9.99 a month
- The full history: 14 fiscal years, from 2008
- The estimated fair value, with its range and its certainty
- The full analysis, 18 a month
- More questions to the chat on its filings
- Excel with every year
- An email when it reports, changes its dividend or an officer buys
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Yield
1.14%
$3.67 per share over the last 12 months, at a price of $320.60.
Forward yield1.19%($0.95 a quarter)
- Cover from subsidiariesThe parent received 409% of what it paid out from its subsidiaries.
- 4.1x
- Payout21% of the last 12 months' earnings went to the dividend.
- 21%
- No cutYears in a row without a cut, in 14 years of figures.
- 10
- 5-year growthAverage yearly growth over the last five years.
- +13.8%
- CET1Core capital, from the FDIC.
- 10.9%
The dividend year by year
What it paid per share each fiscal year, how much that changed, and the yield it gave at the price at year end.
- 2025Dividend per share$3.28
- 2024Dividend per share$2.80
- 2023Dividend per share$2.40
| Year | Dividend per share | Change | Price | Yield then | As % of earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $3.28 | +17.1% | $369.95 | 0.89% | 21% |
| 2024 | $2.80 | +16.7% | $296.79 | 0.94% | 20% |
| 2023 | $2.40 | – | $187.34 | 1.28% | 21% |
Each fiscal year's dividend as the company states it in its filings, adjusted for stock splits. Special dividends count in the year they were paid.
The dividend year by year
AXP's dividend per share each fiscal year, from 2008 to 2022, 11 more fiscal years
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Everything it returns to shareholders
The dividend is one way. The other is buybacks, which reduce the number of shares.
Dividend yield
1.14%
$11.40 a year per $1,000 of shares
Buybacks
2.64%
$26.40 a year per $1,000 of shares
The share count fell by 2.3% over the year.
Total returned
3.78%
$37.80 a year per $1,000 of shares
dividend 30%buybacks 70%
AXP beside the other dividend payers
Where it stands among this week's 968 dividend payers, and in the Financial services sector. The dot is the company, the white line the median.
Above 29% of the payers · median 2.03%
In Financial services: above 20%, median 2.29%.
Above 88% of the payers · median +6.3%
In Financial services: above 90%, median +5.6%.
Above 25% of the payers · median 35%
In Financial services: above 29%, median 31%.
The full analysis
What do American Express's filings show?
The dividend is one part of American Express's picture. The full Ploutos AI analysis reads everything the company has filed and shows what stands behind it, with a source for every figure.
- A fair value range built from the filings
- Earnings quality, debt and red flags
- Insider and institutional moves
- The case for and the case against
What is AXP's dividend yield?
American Express paid $3.67 per share over the last 12 months. At a price of $320.60, that is a yield of 1.14%.
Has AXP ever cut its dividend?
American Express has not cut its dividend for 10 years, in the 14 years of figures we hold.
How much has AXP's dividend grown?
American Express's dividend per share changed by +13.8% a year on average over the last five years.
Related pages
The other pages on US stocks, free to read. On the company pages, the last three fiscal years are open to everyone, five with a free account, and every year with Ploutos Investor.
The figures come from the company's SEC filings and the share price, and describe what it has reported. They are not a score or a fair value.