American Express Co (AXP) Institutional Ownership

Institutions by Trading Activity

Ownership Statistics

696,000,000Shares Outstanding

585,374,647Shares held by institutions

$183,116,897,075Value of institutional holdings

84.11%Institutional ownership %

-3.17%Shares Changed QoQ

2,970No. of institutional investors

Shares Owned by Institutions

Shares Purchased/Sold by Institutions

Ownership Summary

American Express Co (NYSE:AXP) is held by 2,953 institutional investors per 13F filings through December 2025.

Their combined ownership stood at 83.1% of outstanding shares in December 2025, down from 88.4% in September 2025.
They decreased total shares held in American Express by -3.55% from last quarter, and the number of investors in AXP increased 13.53% annually.
Among the 2,953 funds, 1,434 bought more American Express shares, 1,111 sold down, and 408 held their ground.
Institutional investors collectively held 578.14Mn shares in American Express as of December 2025, down by 21.27Mn shares quarter on quarter, and down 47.82Mn shares year over year.
SG Americas Securities, LLC leads ownership in AXP with 1.97Mn shares as of December 31, 2025, equal to 0.28% of outstanding shares.
The most significant purchases of AXP for the quarter ending December 2025 came from SG Americas Securities, LLC (770.59K), Pictet Asset Management Holding SA (616.5K), WEALTH ENHANCEMENT ADVISORY SERVICES, LLC (232.62K), Sterling Capital Management LLC (124.83K), PBU - The Pension Fund of Early Childhood & Youth Educators (113.51K).
The largest sales of AXP for the quarter ending December 2025 came from Canoe Financial LP (303.24K), KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION/OH (41.56K), Stockman Wealth Management, Inc. (39.29K), Greystone Financial Group, LLC (37.95K), BXM Wealth LLC (31.35K).
According to Business Quant data, leading holders of AXP for December 2025 are SG Americas Securities, LLC (1.97Mn), Pictet Asset Management Holding SA (1.45Mn), Focused Investors LLC (502.45K), CACTI ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC (390.53K), Retirement Systems of Alabama (372.46K), Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company, Ltd (366.7K), Lansforsakringar Fondforvaltning AB (publ) (331.16K), KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION/OH (317.7K), Douglas Lane & Associates, LLC (287.64K), PBU - The Pension Fund of Early Childhood & Youth Educators (256.0K).

2,990 Institutional Holders

585,374,647 Total Shares Held

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Owner Name	Date	Shares Held	Change (QoQ)	Change (%)	Value (USD)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc	31 Dec, 2025	151,610,700	0	0.00%	$56,088,378,465.00
VANGUARD GROUP INC	31 Dec, 2025	46,109,777	93,510	0.20%	$17,058,312,001.00
BlackRock, Inc.	31 Dec, 2025	42,342,836	-712,288	-1.65%	$15,664,732,026.00
State Street Corp	31 Dec, 2025	29,464,868	369,967	1.27%	$10,900,527,917.00
Jpmorgan Chase & Co	31 Dec, 2025	21,032,958	-23,341,540	-52.60%	$7,781,143,862.00
Morgan Stanley	31 Dec, 2025	13,199,234	-33,177	-0.25%	$4,883,057,607.00
GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC	31 Dec, 2025	12,708,136	14,768	0.12%	$4,689,463,098.00
Goldman Sachs Group Inc	31 Dec, 2025	9,388,146	5,065,840	117.20%	$3,473,144,070.00
Fisher Asset Management, LLC	31 Dec, 2025	9,023,482	141,936	1.60%	$3,338,237,725.00
FMR LLC	31 Dec, 2025	8,408,873	247,368	3.03%	$3,110,862,777.00
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP	31 Dec, 2025	7,965,878	-5,006,656	-38.59%	$2,946,976,567.00
Bank Of America Corp /De/	31 Dec, 2025	7,850,298	-6,793,032	-46.39%	$2,904,217,647.00
Capital World Investors	31 Dec, 2025	7,515,675	2,393,340	46.72%	$2,780,423,966.00
NORGES BANK	31 Dec, 2025	6,660,940	6,660,940	0.00%	$2,464,214,753.00
Northern Trust Corp	31 Dec, 2025	6,360,544	-163,922	-2.51%	$2,353,083,254.00
MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/	31 Dec, 2025	5,807,459	-686,853	-10.58%	$2,148,469,457.00
Wells Fargo & Company/Mn	31 Dec, 2025	5,378,755	373,107	7.45%	$1,989,870,576.00
DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral Genossenschafts Bank, Frankfurt am Main	31 Dec, 2025	5,206,625	813,933	18.53%	$1,926,191,703.00
Nuveen, LLC	31 Dec, 2025	5,172,484	293,107	6.01%	$1,913,560,496.00
UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC	31 Dec, 2025	4,806,554	83,083	1.76%	$1,778,184,653.00

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