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American Express Company (AXP) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for AXP, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.44 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How AXP has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.44 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), American Express Company moved 0.44% on average · correlation 0.15 · higher than 45% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.67 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.59% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +1.23% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Credit Services · US · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Credit Services · US

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against AXP on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — American Express Company

AXP in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
American Express operates an integrated payments network, issuing credit and charge cards while also running the merchant acquiring and network services that clear those transactions. It serves consumers, small businesses and large corporations through four segments covering US consumer cards, commercial services, international card services and global merchant and network services. Beyond cards it offers banking products such as deposits and non-card lending, plus travel and lifestyle services bundled with its cards. It is headquartered in New York.
Where it sits in the stack
American Express carries no seat in our Rubin index and no Halo reading, so it sits outside the AI build-out stack; within our universe it belongs to the Financial Services sector, under Credit Services, as a payments and card-network name.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group has not been set for this name; the comparison the market draws is with Visa and Mastercard as network operators, and with Discover as the closer analogue among issuers that also run their own network.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It is a Dow Jones Industrial Average constituent; it carries no Closelooknet score yet, and the diary has not quoted it in any edition so far.
What the diary watches
Whether the recent slide against its 50-day and 200-day averages, and the distance from its 52-week high, marks a pause or a longer drift lower.

American Express Company (AXP) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: AXP news on the tape · index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.15%, quarterly · last 0.95 USD on 2026-07-02

Dividends and capital return

What AXP pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.54 USD per share · a 1.15% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +16.4% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 3.04 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.95 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-02
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.60 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.70 USD · 2025: 3.16 USD · 2026: 2.72 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-05

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is American Express Company (AXP)?

American Express Company trades as AXP on the US exchange (US) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is AXP in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — American Express Company is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does AXP trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -7% vs the 50-day and -7.4% vs the 200-day average, 19.9% below the 52-week high and +6.5% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 3 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does American Express Company trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year American Express Company had a beta of 0.44 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 45% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.59% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does American Express Company do?

American Express operates an integrated payments network, issuing credit and charge cards while also running the merchant acquiring and network services that clear those transactions. It serves consumers, small businesses and large corporations through four segments covering US consumer cards, commercial services, international card services and global merchant and network services. Beyond cards it offers banking products such as deposits and non-card lending, plus travel and lifestyle services bundled with its cards. Closelooknet's peer group has not been set for this name; the comparison the market draws is with Visa and Mastercard as network operators, and with Discover as the closer analogue among issuers that also run their own network.

Where does American Express Company sit in the AI build-out?

American Express carries no seat in our Rubin index and no Halo reading, so it sits outside the AI build-out stack; within our universe it belongs to the Financial Services sector, under Credit Services, as a payments and card-network name. It is a Dow Jones Industrial Average constituent; it carries no Closelooknet score yet, and the diary has not quoted it in any edition so far.

Does American Express Company pay a dividend?

American Express Company has paid 3.54 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.15% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.95 USD on 2026-07-02. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for AXP, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Credit Services, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.