Is Artificial Intelligence the Biggest Bubble in History?
Is it any surprise 31 billionaires (including: Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and more) are quietly unloading their OWN stocks at record pace? They're getting OUT of AI (and Tech Stocks) before it's too late. But why? And WHERE are they moving their cash for the biggest profits, in 2024?
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 704,000,000 |
| Shares Float | 703,510,000 |
| Shares Short | 8,730,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 2164% |
| Institution Holdings | 64.43% |
About American Express Co
American Express Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as integrated payments company in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Canada, the Caribbean, and Internationally. It operates through four segments: U.S. Consumer Services, Commercial Services, International Card Services, and Global Merchant and Network Services. The company's products and services include credit card, charge card, banking, and other payment and financing products; network services; expense management products and services; and travel and lifestyle services. It also provides merchant acquisition and processing, servicing and settlement, point-of-sale marketing, and information products and services for merchants; and fraud prevention services, as well as the design and operation of customer loyalty programs. In addition, the company operates lounges at airports under Centurion Lounge brand name. It sells its products and services to consumers, small businesses, mid-sized companies, and large corporations through mobile and online applications, affiliate marketing, customer referral programs, third-party service providers and business partners, direct mail, telephone, in-house sales teams, and direct response advertising. American Express Company was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
General
| Name | American Express Co |
| Ticker | AXP |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Financial |
| Industry | Credit Services |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 74,600 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 292.59 |
| Market Cap | 212,777,600,000 |
| PE Ratio | 22.22 |
| PEG Ratio | 1.92 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 13.98 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 2.98 |
| Profit Margin | 13.42% |
| Operating Margin | 20.07 |
| Return on Assets | 0.04 |
| Return on Equity | 0.35 |
| Revenue | 72.7B |
| Earnings Per Share | 13.60 |
| Revenue Per Share | 82.53 |
| Gross Profit | 28,776,000,000 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.08 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 22.31 |
| Forward PE | 19.96 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 3.61 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 7.20 |
Dividend
American Express Co pays out a dividend of $2.80 per share, with a dividend yield of 0.93%.
AXP's next dividend payment will be made to shareholders on February 10, 2025.
They pay out 21.41% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Feb 10, 2025 | $0.70 |
| Nov 8, 2024 | $0.70 |
| Aug 9, 2024 | $0.70 |
| May 10, 2024 | $0.70 |
| Feb 9, 2024 | $0.60 |
| Nov 10, 2023 | $0.60 |
| Aug 10, 2023 | $0.60 |
| May 10, 2023 | $0.60 |
| Feb 10, 2023 | $0.52 |
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