American Express Company Dividends
The next dividend date for American Express Company has not yet been scheduled.
What is a Dividend Date
When we talk about a dividend date, we’re referring specifically to the ex-dividend date.
This is the date on which all stockholders will earn a dividend. Technically, a person needs to be the owner of a share of stock as of the night before the ex-dividend date in order to earn the dividend.
The ex-dividend date is different than the date when the dividend is issued. Although you earn a dividend on the ex-dividend date, that dividend is typically not disbursed to your account until several weeks later.
Most brokerages will automatically credit the dividend to your account once it’s issued.
Historical Dividends for American Express Company (AXP)
| 07/02/2026 | 06/04/2026 | 07/02/2026 | 08/10/2026 | $0.95 |
| 04/02/2026 | 03/02/2026 | 04/03/2026 | 05/08/2026 | $0.95 |
| 01/02/2026 | 12/17/2025 | 01/02/2026 | 02/10/2026 | $0.82 |
| 10/10/2025 | 09/24/2025 | 10/10/2025 | 11/10/2025 | $0.82 |
| 07/03/2025 | 06/17/2025 | 07/03/2025 | 08/08/2025 | $0.82 |
| 04/04/2025 | 03/03/2025 | 04/04/2025 | 05/09/2025 | $0.82 |
| 01/03/2025 | 12/12/2024 | 01/03/2025 | 02/10/2025 | $0.70 |
| 10/04/2024 | 09/24/2024 | 10/04/2024 | 11/08/2024 | $0.70 |
| 07/05/2024 | 05/07/2024 | 07/05/2024 | 08/09/2024 | $0.70 |
| 04/04/2024 | 03/06/2024 | 04/05/2024 | 05/10/2024 | $0.70 |
More About American Express Company
American Express Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an 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 offers credit and charge cards and complementary products and services, including travel, dining, and lifestyle and expense management products and services; and banking and other payment and financing products and services, including deposits and non-card lending. It also provides merchant acquisition and processing, servicing and settlement, fraud prevention, and point-of-sale marketing and information products and services, as well as network services. The company offers 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, in-house sales teams, direct mail, telephone, and direct response advertising. American Express Company was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Owning American Express Company Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own American Express Company stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of American Express Company stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of American Express Company stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying American Express Company stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the American Express Company dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning American Express Company Options on the Dividend Date
Unlike the stock price, which will normally have an abrupt decrease by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, option prices typically do not reflect the same phenomenon.
The reason is that in the time leading up to the ex-dividend date, that projected drop in American Express Company stock price from the dividend is already baked into American Express Company option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the American Express Company ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the American Express Company ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of American Express Company call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of American Express Company put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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