Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 15, 2026
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
New York
1-7657
13-4922250
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
200 Vesey Street,
New York, New York10285
(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)
(212) 640-2000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Shares (par value $0.20 per Share)
AXP
New York Stock Exchange
3.433% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Notes due May 20, 2032
AXP32
New York Stock Exchange
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Item7.01Regulation FDDisclosure
American ExpressCompany (the “Company”) ishereby furnishing belowdelinquency and write-off statistics for its U.S. Consumer and U.S. Small Business Card balances held for investment for the months ended April 30, March 31 and February 28, 2026; Card balances classified as held for sale on the Consolidated Balance Sheets are not reflected in the table below. The Company has updated its presentation and disclosure of Card Member loans and Card Member receivables to present them on a combined basis as Card balances. As a result, the table below now presents all Card balances, including both revolve-eligible balances and balances that need to be paid in full on or before the Card Member’s payment due date. Refer to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2026 for more information regarding this presentation change.
Historical Card balances, delinquency and write-off statistics for U.S. Consumer and U.S. Small Business are attached to this report as Exhibit 99.1 and are incorporated herein by reference.
AmericanExpressCompany
U.S. Consumer and U.S. Small Business
DelinquencyandWrite-offRateStatistics
Asofandforthemonthsended April 30, March 31andFebruary 28, 2026
(Billions,exceptpercentages)
April 30, 2026
March 31, 2026
February 28, 2026
U.S.ConsumerCardbalances:
Total Card balances
$
111.4
$
110.8
$
107.4
30dayspastdueasa%of total
1.2
%
1.3
%
1.3
%
Average Card balances
$
111.1
$
109.1
$
108.7
Netwrite-offrate–principalonly(a)
2.1
%
2.0
%
1.9
%
U.S.SmallBusinessCard balances:
Total Card balances
$
45.8
$
45.2
$
43.9
30dayspastdueasa%of total
1.5
%
1.6
%
1.6
%
Average Card balances
$
45.5
$
44.6
$
44.1
Netwrite-offrate–principalonly(a)
2.4
%
2.6
%
2.5
%
TotalCardbalancesheldforinvestment–U.S. Consumer and U.S. Small Business
The statistics presented above provide information that is additional to the data reported by the American Express Credit Account Master Trust (the “Lending Trust”) in its monthly Form 10-D report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The Card balances that have been securitized through the Lending Trust, presented below, reflect only revolve-eligible balances and therefore differ fromthetotalU.S.Consumer and U.S.SmallBusinessCard balanceportfolios,which reflect both revolve-eligible balances and pay-in-full balances and include both securitizedandnon-securitizedCard balances.In addition, thereportedcredit performance of the Lending Trust may, on a month-to-month basis, be better or worse as a result of, among other things, differences in the mix, vintage and aging of balances, the use of end-of-period principal balances to calculate write-off statistics in the Lending Trust compared to the use of average Card balances over the reporting period used in the statistics of the U.S. Consumer and U.S. Small Business Card balance portfolios, as well as other mechanics of the calculation for the Lending Trust net write-off rate, which is impacted by any additions to the Lending Trust within a particular period. Statistics for the U.S. Consumer and U.S. Small Business Card balance portfolios and the Lending Trust for any particular monthly period may be subject to variability due to a number of factors, including the number of days in a month, timing of holidays and weekends, seasonality and the timing of information received from third parties.
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SetforthbelowiscertaininformationregardingthecreditperformanceoftheLendingTrustforitsthreemost recent monthly reporting periods, as reported in its Form 10-D report filed with respect to each such period.
The cover page of this Current Report on Form 8-K, formatted as inline XBRL.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.