American Express Co (AXP): Today's Featured Financial Services Laggard
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) pushed the Financial Services industry lower today making it today's featured Financial Services laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.3%. By the end of trading, American Express fell $0.79 (-1.1%) to $74.62 on average volume. Throughout the day, 4,922,259 shares of American Express exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5,703,300 shares. The stock ranged in price between $74.30-$76.29 after having opened the day at $75.43 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $75.41. Other companies within the Financial Services industry that declined today were:
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), down 10.0%,
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), down 4.8%,
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), down 3.8% and
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), down 3.8%.
American Express Company provides charge and credit payment card products and travel-related services to customers worldwide. American Express has a market cap of $82.1 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 18.8, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 30.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate American Express a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
American Express
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in net income, revenue growth, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
- You can view the full American Express Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 15.7%,
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), up 5.1%,
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), up 4.4% and
Golub Capital BDC Inc. Class B
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), up 2.8% , were all gainers within the financial services industry with
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) being today's featured financial services industry leader.
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) while those bearish on the financial services industry could consider
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