American Express AXP Return on equity
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Where this comes from
Calculated from American Express’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: American Express’s 10-Q, filed April 23, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is American Express's return on equity?
- American Express (AXP) reported return on equity of 34.4% in Q1 2026.
- How has American Express's return on equity changed year-over-year?
- American Express's return on equity increased by 0.4% year-over-year, from 34.3% to 34.4%.
- What is the long-term trend for American Express's return on equity?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), American Express's return on equity has grown at a 2.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 121.5% to 135%.
- What does return on equity mean?
- How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
- How do you interpret return on equity?
- Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
- How does return on equity compare across companies?
- Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.