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5 Stocks Pushing The Financial Sector Lower

By TheStreet Wire 11/27/12 - 12:04 PM EST

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3. As of noon trading, American Express (AXP) is down $0.59 (-1.1%) to $55.10 on average volume Thus far, 2.8 million shares of American Express exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.1 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $54.92-$55.72 after having opened the day at $55.43 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $55.69.

American Express Company provides charge and credit payment card products and travel-related services to customers worldwide. American Express has a market cap of $63.2 billion and is part of the financial services industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 13.1, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 18.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate American Express a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 9 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates American Express as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its growth in earnings per share, revenue growth, increase in net income, solid stock price performance and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated. Get the full American Express Ratings Report now.

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