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American Express Co

AXP
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Finance Services
SEC CIK
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In the last 90 days, American Express Co insiders filed 0 open-market purchases and 4 sales; 3,034 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $195.1B in total; 8 superinvestors hold it, including Berkshire Hathaway and Markel Group.

Four kinds of short-selling data, each measuring something different:

  • Short interest: shares sold short and not yet bought back, as of a settlement date. FINRA publishes it twice a month, about eight business days after the settlement date.
  • Daily short volume: shares sold short each day in off-exchange trades reported to FINRA. It counts trades, not open positions, and is published the next day.
  • Fails-to-deliver: shares not delivered by the settlement date. The SEC publishes them twice a month, about two weeks late.
  • ATS (dark pool) volume: weekly volume on alternative trading systems and other off-exchange venues. FINRA publishes it two to four weeks after the week.

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Short interest

Shares sold short and not yet bought back, from FINRA, on every settlement date in the last two years.

Short interest
11.0M
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
+85.1K
+0.8% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
3.57
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
3.07M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 7,876,451 sharesNov 15, 2024: 8,934,109 sharesNov 29, 2024: 8,624,748 sharesDec 13, 2024: 8,725,963 sharesDec 31, 2024: 8,572,088 sharesJan 15, 2025: 8,235,626 sharesJan 31, 2025: 8,057,014 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 8,191,250 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 8,259,599 sharesMar 14, 2025: 8,315,349 sharesMar 31, 2025: 7,637,551 sharesApr 15, 2025: 8,309,481 sharesApr 30, 2025: 9,187,131 sharesMay 15, 2025: 10,114,885 sharesMay 30, 2025: 8,805,798 sharesJun 13, 2025: 8,301,600 sharesJun 30, 2025: 10,403,873 sharesJul 15, 2025: 9,375,519 sharesJul 31, 2025: 9,203,962 sharesAug 15, 2025: 9,523,637 sharesAug 29, 2025: 10,578,666 sharesSep 15, 2025: 9,642,094 sharesSep 30, 2025: 9,854,885 sharesOct 15, 2025: 8,743,388 sharesOct 31, 2025: 10,145,452 sharesNov 14, 2025: 10,320,081 sharesNov 28, 2025: 10,293,299 sharesDec 15, 2025: 9,757,775 sharesDec 31, 2025: 9,151,837 sharesJan 15, 2026: 8,041,941 sharesJan 30, 2026: 7,161,764 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 8,616,704 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 9,850,572 sharesMar 13, 2026: 11,020,698 sharesMar 31, 2026: 12,456,994 sharesApr 15, 2026: 11,051,829 sharesApr 30, 2026: 14,694,400 sharesMay 15, 2026: 12,314,694 sharesMay 29, 2026: 12,044,280 sharesJun 15, 2026: 12,100,785 sharesJun 30, 2026: 10,839,567 sharesJul 15, 2026: 11,492,443 sharesJul 31, 2026: 12,150,889 sharesAug 14, 2026: 10,884,711 sharesAug 31, 2026: 10,420,326 sharesSep 15, 2026: 10,777,036 sharesSep 30, 2026: 10,816,289 sharesOct 15, 2026: 10,891,111 sharesOct 30, 2026: 10,976,234 shares
Short interest in AXP by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 202611.0M+85.1K+0.8%3.07M3.57
Oct 15, 202610.9M+74.8K+0.7%3.08M3.54
Sep 30, 202610.8M+39.3K+0.4%4.01M2.70
Sep 15, 202610.8M+356.7K+3.4%2.32M4.65
Aug 31, 202610.4M−464.4K−4.3%2.46M4.24
Aug 14, 202610.9M−1.27M−10.4%2.18M4.99
Jul 31, 202612.2M+658.4K+5.7%3.25M3.74
Jul 15, 202611.5M+652.9K+6.0%3.03M3.79
Jun 30, 202610.8M−1.26M−10.4%3.69M2.94
Jun 15, 202612.1M+56.5K+0.5%2.72M4.45
May 29, 202612.0M−270.4K−2.2%3.06M3.94
May 15, 202612.3M−2.38M−16.2%3.19M3.87
Apr 30, 202614.7M+3.64M+33.0%3.66M4.01
Apr 15, 202611.1M−1.41M−11.3%2.50M4.42
Mar 31, 202612.5M+1.44M+13.0%3.70M3.36
Mar 13, 202611.0M+1.17M+11.9%4.41M2.50
Feb 27, 20269.85M+1.23M+14.3%4.72M2.09
Feb 13, 20268.62M+1.45M+20.3%3.32M2.60
Jan 30, 20267.16M−880.2K−10.9%3.08M2.32
Jan 15, 20268.04M−1.11M−12.1%3.19M2.52
Dec 31, 20259.15M−605.9K−6.2%2.49M3.68
Dec 15, 20259.76M−535.5K−5.2%2.44M4.01
Nov 28, 202510.3M−26.8K−0.3%2.66M3.88
Nov 14, 202510.3M+174.6K+1.7%2.42M4.26
Oct 31, 202510.1M+1.40M+16.0%2.75M3.68
Oct 15, 20258.74M−1.11M−11.3%2.22M3.94
Sep 30, 20259.85M+212.8K+2.2%3.15M3.13
Sep 15, 20259.64M−936.6K−8.9%2.48M3.89
Aug 29, 202510.6M+1.06M+11.1%2.20M4.80
Aug 15, 20259.52M+319.7K+3.5%2.46M3.88
Jul 31, 20259.20M−171.6K−1.8%2.71M3.40
Jul 15, 20259.38M−1.03M−9.9%2.55M3.68
Jun 30, 202510.4M+2.10M+25.3%3.40M3.06
Jun 13, 20258.30M−504.2K−5.7%2.08M4.00
May 30, 20258.81M−1.31M−12.9%2.75M3.20
May 15, 202510.1M+927.8K+10.1%2.82M3.58
Apr 30, 20259.19M+877.6K+10.6%3.01M3.05
Apr 15, 20258.31M+671.9K+8.8%5.24M1.58
Mar 31, 20257.64M−677.8K−8.2%3.00M2.55
Mar 14, 20258.32M+55.8K+0.7%4.08M2.04
Feb 28, 20258.26M+68.3K+0.8%2.50M3.30
Feb 14, 20258.19M+134.2K+1.7%2.03M4.03
Jan 31, 20258.06M−178.6K−2.2%2.97M2.71
Jan 15, 20258.24M−336.5K−3.9%2.34M3.51
Dec 31, 20248.57M−153.9K−1.8%2.55M3.36
Dec 13, 20248.73M+101.2K+1.2%2.12M4.12
Nov 29, 20248.62M−309.4K−3.5%2.42M3.56
Nov 15, 20248.93M+1.06M+13.4%2.70M3.31
Oct 31, 20247.88M−476.4K−5.7%3.12M2.52

Fails-to-deliver

Shares that weren't delivered by the settlement date, from the SEC, for the last 30 dates with fails. The price is the previous day's closing price published by the SEC.

Fails-to-deliver in AXP by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 14, 202616$309.84$4.96K
Oct 7, 20261,378$304.55$419.7K
Oct 1, 202628,145$304.10$8.56M
Sep 25, 2026327$305.66$100.0K
Sep 16, 2026421$324.43$136.6K
Aug 25, 20262$337.33$674.66
Aug 3, 2026100$336.25$33.6K
Jul 28, 202648$335.39$16.1K
Jul 20, 2026100$355.35$35.5K
Jul 14, 2026436$354.43$154.5K
Jul 13, 2026207$350.58$72.6K
Jul 10, 2026600$346.72$208.0K
Jul 6, 20262$351.96$703.92
Jul 2, 2026500$348.00$174.0K
Jun 30, 202683$340.88$28.3K
Jun 25, 202639$342.56$13.4K
Jun 24, 202625$337.78$8.44K
Jun 22, 2026563$338.00$190.3K
Jun 18, 2026230$340.54$78.3K
Jun 15, 20261,883$325.44$612.8K
Jun 12, 20263,044$318.49$969.5K
Jun 10, 2026404$318.38$128.6K
Jun 1, 2026100$316.47$31.6K
May 26, 20262,539$311.78$791.6K
May 21, 20261,767$309.82$547.5K
May 18, 2026100$313.48$31.3K
Apr 24, 202692$318.55$29.3K
Apr 23, 2026747$332.90$248.7K
Apr 20, 20262,300$331.69$762.9K
Mar 25, 202654$302.00$16.3K

Daily short volume

Off-exchange short-sale volume, not short interest: shares sold short each day in trades reported to FINRA, for the last 30 trading days.

The short volume ratio isn't a sentiment gauge: market makers sell short to fill buy orders and to hedge, so short sales are usually about half of off-exchange volume.

Off-exchange short volume in AXP by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 10, 2026430,3129,245759,11456.7%
Nov 9, 2026417,6661,946876,00947.7%
Nov 6, 2026556,50112,227954,88958.3%
Nov 5, 2026725,5633,9701,528,55447.5%
Nov 4, 2026579,3064141,291,08644.9%
Nov 3, 2026245,3331,150562,60043.6%
Nov 2, 2026473,11627,8471,067,05244.3%
Oct 30, 2026378,0059,558728,47651.9%
Oct 29, 2026393,3454,978776,23350.7%
Oct 28, 2026344,62712,184698,99749.3%
Oct 27, 2026462,6020801,67057.7%
Oct 26, 2026568,264551,233,57946.1%
Oct 23, 20261,016,3594841,621,35062.7%
Oct 22, 2026539,3755997,44954.1%
Oct 21, 2026616,2741,7151,117,00755.2%
Oct 20, 2026855,3241,7101,404,17460.9%
Oct 19, 2026496,544867937,03053.0%
Oct 16, 2026466,9831,2961,142,08040.9%
Oct 15, 2026402,5891,6331,290,86031.2%
Oct 14, 2026431,5192,0531,127,64838.3%
Oct 13, 2026636,5822,9271,045,92760.9%
Oct 12, 2026376,9633,943786,21847.9%
Oct 9, 2026553,6781,1241,122,30549.3%
Oct 8, 2026564,5321,0411,308,81143.1%
Oct 7, 2026473,6156841,032,78345.9%
Oct 6, 2026365,46327739,38449.4%
Oct 5, 2026484,4931,1461,011,68047.9%
Oct 2, 2026469,1772,577950,30049.4%
Oct 1, 2026469,5891721,406,81633.4%
Sep 30, 2026491,0247071,074,38945.7%

ATS (dark pool) volume

Weekly volume on alternative trading systems (ATS) and other off-exchange (OTC) venues, from FINRA, for the last 12 weeks. ATS share is ATS volume ÷ (ATS + OTC volume), not a share of all trading.

Weekly ATS and OTC volume in AXP
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 19, 2026T14,369,180124,7163,055,61192,11358.8%
Oct 12, 2026T13,524,042105,4832,998,60593,06454.0%
Oct 5, 2026T13,376,635100,4363,420,69296,53549.7%
Sep 28, 2026T13,424,19791,8084,336,508101,38544.1%
Sep 21, 2026T14,185,176113,1803,934,110114,15651.5%
Sep 14, 2026T13,816,838121,1914,251,92897,91047.3%
Sep 7, 2026T12,381,98587,6721,703,82263,41458.3%
Aug 31, 2026T12,524,93196,3922,293,16177,53352.4%
Aug 24, 2026T12,356,21881,9551,874,12472,33955.7%
Aug 17, 2026T13,616,60295,9652,909,79078,77555.4%
Aug 10, 2026T12,002,29673,1682,395,71567,51045.5%
Aug 3, 2026T12,705,71397,4562,450,63275,66552.5%