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AXP Dividend History, Yield & Dates
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AXPAmerican Express Company
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AXP Dividend answer
American Express Company (AXP) pays a quarterly dividend. Forward dividend yield: 1.19%, or $3.80 a year at the latest dividend. Trailing 12-month yield: 1.15%, from $3.67 per share paid over the past year. Its latest dividend was $0.95 per share. Latest ex-dividend date: Oct 9, 2026. Payment date: Nov 10, 2026. Next dividend status: announced at $0.95 per share.
AXP Dividend Snapshot
Yield, annual dividend, latest payment, payout coverage, growth, and dividend history are emphasized for this stock. Yield methodology is labeled separately from payout coverage.
Next AXP Dividend Date
When AXP next goes ex-dividend, the amount where it has been declared, and whether that state is announced, projected or not yet known.
Next AXP dividend
AXP's announced dividend calendar data is shown separately from historical payments so future dates do not get blended into completed dividend history.
Latest AXP Dividend Dates
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AXP Dividend History
Recent per-share dividends show payment cadence. Trailing-year and growth reads are shown only when the available rows cover a complete comparable window.
Dividend reliability
Recent dividend payments are summarized as cadence and coverage signals. Exact rows remain below for auditability.
AXP Annual Dividend History
AXP Dividend Growth
Latest row amount $0.95, event yield 1.19%.
This page labels the feed as recent history when multi-year rows, payment dates, or record dates are incomplete. Announced calendar dates are separated from completed dividend history.
Dividend growth
- 5-year regular dividend CAGR
- 12.94%
- 2020 regular DPS
- $1.720
- 2025 regular DPS
- $3.160
- Absolute change
- $1.440
- Years increased
- 4
- Years reduced
- 1
AXP's split-adjusted regular dividend per share grew at 12.94% a year from 2020 through 2025.
AXP reduced its regular dividend in at least one calendar year between 2020 and 2025.
Split-adjusted regular dividends per share, 2020–2025, excluding special dividends. Research as of Sep 19, 2026.
The regular dividend jumped 54.3% in 2022, a single step rather than steady compounding.
AXP Dividend Yield
How AXP's trailing 12-month dividend yield is calculated, and what it does and does not account for.
Yield methodology
AXP's trailing dividend yield is the regular dividends paid over the last twelve months divided by the latest available share price. Payouts classified as special or supplemental are excluded, because a one-off payment is not recurring income. It is a backward-looking measure and is not the same as a forward yield, which annualises the most recent declared payment instead.
Dividend coverage
Coverage is read from earnings and cash flow rather than from the yield. A payout ratio leaves room, or does not; free cash flow either covers the payment, or the company is funding it another way. These are inputs to a judgement, not a guarantee of future payments.
Recent AXP dividend payments
| Ex-date | Dividend | Adjusted | Yield at ex-date | Frequency | TTM adjusted | Declared | Record date | Payment date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.95 | $0.95 | 1.19% | Quarterly | $3.67 | Sep 28, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Nov 10, 2026 |
| Jul 2, 2026 | $0.95 | $0.95 | 1.01% | Quarterly | $3.54 | Jun 4, 2026 | Jul 2, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 |
| Apr 2, 2026 | $0.95 | $0.95 | 1.14% | Quarterly | $3.41 | Mar 2, 2026 | Apr 3, 2026 | May 8, 2026 |
| Jan 2, 2026 | $0.82 | $0.82 | 88.00% | Quarterly | $3.28 | Dec 17, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | Feb 10, 2026 |
| Oct 10, 2025 | $0.82 | $0.82 | 99.92% | Quarterly | $3.16 | Sep 24, 2025 | Oct 10, 2025 | Nov 10, 2025 |
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| Jul 3, 2025 | $0.82 | $0.82 | 92.65% | Quarterly | $3.04 | Jun 17, 2025 | Jul 3, 2025 | Aug 8, 2025 |
| Apr 4, 2025 | $0.82 | $0.82 | 1.25% | Quarterly | $2.92 | Mar 3, 2025 | Apr 4, 2025 | May 9, 2025 |
| Jan 3, 2025 | $0.70 | $0.70 | 92.38% | Quarterly | $2.80 | Dec 12, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | Feb 10, 2025 |
| Oct 4, 2024 | $0.70 | $0.70 | 97.84% | Quarterly | $2.70 | Sep 24, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | Nov 8, 2024 |
| Jul 5, 2024 | $0.70 | $0.70 | 1.10% | Quarterly | $2.60 | May 7, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | Aug 9, 2024 |
| Apr 4, 2024 | $0.70 | $0.70 | 1.14% | Quarterly | $2.50 | Mar 6, 2024 | Apr 5, 2024 | May 10, 2024 |
| Jan 4, 2024 | $0.60 | $0.60 | 1.28% | Quarterly | $2.40 | Dec 7, 2023 | Jan 5, 2024 | Feb 9, 2024 |
| Oct 5, 2023 | $0.60 | $0.60 | 1.58% | Quarterly | $2.32 | Sep 26, 2023 | Oct 6, 2023 | Nov 10, 2023 |
| Jul 6, 2023 | $0.60 | $0.60 | 1.31% | Quarterly | $2.24 | May 3, 2023 | Jul 7, 2023 | Aug 10, 2023 |
| Apr 5, 2023 | $0.60 | $0.60 | 1.34% | Quarterly | $2.16 | Mar 8, 2023 | Apr 7, 2023 | May 10, 2023 |
| Jan 5, 2023 | $0.52 | $0.52 | 1.42% | Quarterly | $2.08 | Dec 7, 2022 | Jan 6, 2023 | Feb 10, 2023 |
| Oct 13, 2022 | $0.52 | $0.52 | 1.41% | Quarterly | $1.99 | Sep 28, 2022 | Oct 14, 2022 | Nov 10, 2022 |
| Jun 30, 2022 | $0.52 | $0.52 | 1.37% | Quarterly | $1.90 | May 4, 2022 | Jul 1, 2022 | Aug 10, 2022 |
| Apr 7, 2022 | $0.52 | $0.52 | 99.24% | Quarterly | $1.81 | Mar 10, 2022 | Apr 8, 2022 | May 10, 2022 |
| Jan 6, 2022 | $0.43 | $0.43 | 99.48% | Quarterly | $1.72 | Dec 8, 2021 | Jan 7, 2022 | Feb 10, 2022 |
| Oct 7, 2021 | $0.43 | $0.43 | 98.69% | Quarterly | $1.72 | Sep 28, 2021 | Oct 8, 2021 | Nov 10, 2021 |
| Jul 1, 2021 | $0.43 | $0.43 | 1.03% | Semi-Annual | $1.72 | May 6, 2021 | Jul 2, 2021 | Aug 10, 2021 |
| Mar 31, 2021 | $0.43 | $0.43 | 1.22% | Special | $1.72 | Mar 9, 2021 | Apr 2, 2021 | May 10, 2021 |
| Jan 7, 2021 | $0.43 | $0.43 | 1.41% | Quarterly | $1.72 | Dec 10, 2020 | Jan 8, 2021 | Feb 10, 2021 |
| Oct 8, 2020 | $0.43 | $0.43 | 1.62% | Quarterly | $1.72 | Sep 29, 2020 | Oct 9, 2020 | Nov 10, 2020 |
| Jul 1, 2020 | $0.43 | $0.43 | 1.83% | Quarterly | $1.72 | May 7, 2020 | Jul 2, 2020 | Aug 10, 2020 |
| Apr 2, 2020 | $0.43 | $0.43 | 2.19% | Quarterly | $1.68 | Mar 9, 2020 | Apr 3, 2020 | May 8, 2020 |
| Jan 2, 2020 | $0.43 | $0.43 | 1.30% | Quarterly | $1.64 | Dec 12, 2019 | Jan 3, 2020 | Feb 10, 2020 |
| Oct 3, 2019 | $0.43 | $0.43 | 1.42% | Quarterly | $1.60 | Sep 23, 2019 | Oct 4, 2019 | Nov 8, 2019 |
| Jul 3, 2019 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 1.24% | Quarterly | $1.56 | May 8, 2019 | Jul 5, 2019 | Aug 9, 2019 |
| Apr 4, 2019 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 1.38% | Quarterly | $1.52 | Mar 11, 2019 | Apr 5, 2019 | May 10, 2019 |
| Jan 3, 2019 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 1.58% | Quarterly | $1.48 | Nov 27, 2018 | Jan 4, 2019 | Feb 8, 2019 |
| Oct 4, 2018 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 1.34% | Quarterly | $1.44 | Sep 24, 2018 | Oct 5, 2018 | Nov 9, 2018 |
| Jul 5, 2018 | $0.35 | $0.35 | 1.42% | Quarterly | $1.40 | May 8, 2018 | Jul 6, 2018 | Aug 10, 2018 |
| Apr 5, 2018 | $0.35 | $0.35 | 1.45% | Quarterly | $1.37 | Mar 12, 2018 | Apr 6, 2018 | May 10, 2018 |
| Jan 4, 2018 | $0.35 | $0.35 | 1.33% | Quarterly | $1.34 | Nov 28, 2017 | Jan 5, 2018 | Feb 9, 2018 |
| Oct 5, 2017 | $0.35 | $0.35 | 1.44% | Quarterly | $1.31 | Sep 26, 2017 | Oct 6, 2017 | Nov 10, 2017 |
| Jul 5, 2017 | $0.32 | $0.32 | 1.51% | Quarterly | — | May 2, 2017 | Jul 7, 2017 | Aug 10, 2017 |
| Apr 5, 2017 | $0.32 | $0.32 | 1.61% | Quarterly | — | Mar 27, 2017 | Apr 7, 2017 | May 10, 2017 |
| Jan 4, 2017 | $0.32 | $0.32 | 1.60% | Quarterly | — | Nov 23, 2016 | Jan 6, 2017 | Feb 10, 2017 |
| Oct 5, 2016 | $0.32 | $0.32 | 1.85% | Quarterly | — | Sep 27, 2016 | Oct 7, 2016 | Nov 10, 2016 |
Dividend yield is only the starting point. Pair the current distribution with payout ratio, free cash flow coverage, balance-sheet risk, and the history of actual payments before treating income as durable.
A higher yield is more useful when earnings and free cash flow cover the distribution. A yield caused by a falling stock price can be a warning, not a bargain.
Stable or rising payments can indicate capital return discipline. Flat, skipped, or missing payments should be read with earnings and cash flow before drawing conclusions.
A low payout ratio can leave room for growth; a high payout ratio can indicate limited cushion. Cyclical companies need more room than stable defensive businesses.
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AXP Dividends FAQ
Does AXP pay a dividend?
American Express Company (AXP) has covered dividend payment history on this page, including a latest dividend of $0.95 per share and a quarterly cadence based on available events.
What is AXP's dividend yield?
AXP's trailing dividend yield is 1.15%. Trailing dividend yield equals dividends paid over the trailing 12 months divided by the latest available share price.
When is AXP's next dividend?
AXP's next announced dividend is $0.95 per share with an ex-dividend date of Oct 9, 2026 and payment date of Nov 10, 2026.
When is AXP's ex-dividend date?
AXP's next announced ex-dividend date is Oct 9, 2026.
How has AXP's dividend changed?
AXP's one-year dividend growth is 16.14% based on comparable covered dividend history.