American Express AXP Institutional Ownership

NYSE AXP

$308.17 +0.19 (+0.06%)

At close: Oct 9, 2026 · 4:00 PM EDT

Institutions by Trading Activity

3,009 Institutions

Increased 1,472 48.9%

Unchanged 486 16.2%

Reduced 1,051 34.9%

Ownership Statistics

13F · as of 30 Jun, 2026

Institutional Ownership

86.33%

▲+2.03 pp QoQ

Shares Held by Institutions

585.35Mn

of 678.00Mn outstanding

▲+2.02% QoQ

Shares Outstanding

678.00Mn

92.65Mn held outside 13F filers

Institutional Investors

3,009

filed 13F for Jun 2026

▲+107 vs prior quarter

Net Shares Added (QoQ)

+11.59Mn

accumulated since last quarter

Value of Holdings

$180.39Bn

reported market value

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Ownership Summary

Updated Oct 5, 2026

American Express Co (NYSE:AXP) appeared in the 13F filings of 3,009 institutional investors for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

Collectively, these holders controlled 86.33% of American Express' outstanding shares in Q2 2026, up from 84.31% in Q1 2026.
Total shares held in AXP rose 1.36% from Q1 2026; the number of holders rose 10.67% from Q2 2025.
Looking at the 3,009 holders of AXP individually, 1,472 added to their positions, 1,051 reduced their stakes and 486 left their positions unchanged.
Altogether, institutional holders owned 585.35Mn AXP shares at the end of Q2 2026, up 7.86Mn from the prior quarter and up 3.97Mn from a year earlier.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc held the largest position in AXP at 151.61Mn shares as of June 30, 2026, or 22.36% of shares outstanding.
Among existing holders, the largest additions to American Express in Q2 2026 came from Corient Private Wealth LP (+3.97Mn shares), Vanguard Capital Management LLC (+2.21Mn shares), Marshall Wace, LLP (+1.3Mn shares), Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC (+786.96K shares) and Ascentis Wealth Management, LLC (+761.29K shares).
The largest position reductions in AXP for Q2 2026 were by FMR LLC (-3.26Mn shares), Capital Research Global Investors (-2.43Mn shares), SG Americas Securities, LLC (-1Mn shares), Wellington Management Group LLP (-965.04K shares) and Ameriprise Financial Inc (-819.66K shares).
Business Quant data shows the 10 biggest positions in American Express as of Q2 2026 were held by Berkshire Hathaway Inc (151.61Mn shares), BlackRock, Inc. (42.01Mn shares), Vanguard Capital Management LLC (35.22Mn shares), State Street Corp (29.1Mn shares), JPMorgan Chase & Co (20.46Mn shares), Geode Capital Management, LLC (14.02Mn shares), Morgan Stanley (13.12Mn shares), Fisher Asset Management, LLC (9.43Mn shares), Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC (8.74Mn shares) and Norges Bank (7.99Mn shares).

Form 13F Holdings

3,005 Institutional Holders

Report period 30 Jun, 2026

Total shares held 585.35Mn

Of outstanding 86.33%

#	Institution	CIK	Shares Held	% of Outstanding	Change (QoQ)	Change (%)	Value (USD)
1	Berkshire Hathaway Inc	0001067983	151,610,700	22.36%	0	0.00%	$51.28Bn
2	BlackRock, Inc.	0002012383	42,006,392	6.20%	▲96,083	+0.23%	$14.21Bn
3	VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC	0002100119	35,215,521	5.19%	▲2,205,306	+6.68%	$11.91Bn
4	State Street Corp	0000093751	29,095,803	4.29%	▼131,918	-0.45%	$9.84Bn
5	Jpmorgan Chase & Co	0000019617	20,459,941	3.02%	▲51,618	+0.25%	$6.97Bn
6	GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC	0001214717	14,019,549	2.07%	▼146,925	-1.04%	$4.73Bn
7	Morgan Stanley	0000895421	13,121,109	1.94%	▲312,357	+2.44%	$4.44Bn
8	Fisher Asset Management, LLC	0000850529	9,426,671	1.39%	▲176,298	+1.91%	$3.19Bn
9	VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC	0002100121	8,739,519	1.29%	▲786,964	+9.90%	$2.96Bn
10	NORGES BANK	0001374170	7,985,867	1.18%	▲7,985,867	0.00%	$2.70Bn
11	Bank Of America Corp /De/	0000070858	7,969,555	1.18%	▲614,981	+8.36%	$2.70Bn
12	PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/	0000080255	7,005,840	1.03%	▲13,100	+0.19%	$2.37Mn
13	Northern Trust Corp	0000073124	6,198,664	0.91%	▼94,004	-1.49%	$2.10Bn
14	FMR LLC	0000315066	6,007,554	0.89%	▼3,257,444	-35.16%	$2.03Bn
15	Wells Fargo & Company/Mn	0000072971	5,963,599	0.88%	▲272,927	+4.80%	$2.02Bn
16	Nuveen, LLC	0001871926	5,189,802	0.77%	▼400,979	-7.17%	$1.76Bn
17	Goldman Sachs Group Inc	0000886982	5,120,864	0.76%	▲150,276	+3.02%	$1.73Bn
18	UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC	0000861177	5,053,409	0.75%	▼193,996	-3.70%	$1.71Bn
19	Corient Private Wealth LP	0001948780	4,772,934	0.70%	▲3,967,224	+492.39%	$253.94Mn
20	Artisan Partners Limited Partnership	0001466153	4,521,044	0.67%	▼72,839	-1.59%	$1.53Bn

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