Last updated 31 Jul 2026, 19:51 UTC · updated through the trading day
American Express Fear and Greed Index Today
The American Express Fear and Greed Index today is 45/100, showing Neutral. CFGI measures current American Express market sentiment using live market data and proprietary behavioural models. It has been Neutral for 3 days. Get the next update by email, free
Live American Express Fear and Greed Index
The American Express Fear and Greed Index today is 45/100 (Neutral), down from 46/100 (Neutral) yesterday and up 24 points from last week's reading of 21 (Fear).
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Broad daily American Express market sentiment, not short-term moves.
Live American Express Price and Sentiment Chart
American Express price colored by CFGI fear and greed sentiment over the selected daily range.
This daily chart compares American Express price movement with live fear, greed, neutral and extreme sentiment readings for the wider market trend.
During the last 894 days, American Express sentiment ranged from 9 (Extreme Fear) to 86 (Extreme Greed), with the current reading sitting at 45.
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What Is the American Express Fear and Greed Index Today?
The American Express Fear and Greed Index today shows whether the current American Express market is being driven by fear, neutrality or greed. It gives a live sentiment reading so traders can understand whether conditions are cautious, balanced or risk-on.
Current American Express Fear and Greed Index Value
The current American Express Fear and Greed Index value is measured from 0 to 100. Lower scores suggest fear, uncertainty or weak confidence in the American Express market, while higher scores suggest greed, confidence or stronger risk appetite.
- Daily American Express Fear and Greed Index: 45/100, showing Neutral for the wider market trend.
- 4-hour American Express Fear and Greed Index: 47/100, showing Neutral for the medium-term market trend.
- 1-hour American Express Fear and Greed Index: 51/100, showing Neutral for the short-term market trend.
- 15-minute American Express Fear and Greed Index: 45/100, showing Neutral for the intraday and day trading.
These multi-timeframe readings help compare long-term, medium-term, short-term and intraday American Express sentiment in one place.
What Does the Current American Express Fear and Greed Score Mean?
Neutral on the American Express Fear and Greed Index reflects a market without a strong bias in either direction. Neither fear nor greed is dominating. Traders typically read a Neutral zone as a period of consolidation or indecision, a moment to wait for a clearer directional signal before committing to high-conviction trades.
Is the American Express Fear and Greed Index a Buy or Sell Signal?
The American Express Fear and Greed Index is a market sentiment indicator, not a standalone buy or sell signal. Traders use it to understand whether fear, greed, neutral or extreme sentiment is present, then compare that reading with price action, liquidity and risk management.
Which American Express Fear and Greed Timeframe Should I Use?
Use the daily reading for the wider American Express market trend, the 4-hour reading for medium-term conditions, the 1-hour reading for short-term sentiment and the 15-minute reading for intraday moves. The best timeframe depends on how long you plan to hold or monitor the market.
How Often Is the American Express Fear and Greed Index Updated?
The American Express Fear and Greed Index updates through the US trading day across four timeframes (15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily) while the market is open, recalculated from AXP's price action and nine other signals.
How to Read the American Express Fear and Greed Index Chart
The American Express Fear and Greed Index chart shows how American Express sentiment has moved through different conditions over time. Use it to compare the current reading with previous periods of fear, greed, neutrality and extreme market conditions.
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How CFGI Calculates the American Express Fear and Greed Index
CFGI combines live American Express market signals into one fear and greed reading. The modules below show whether the current American Express score is being driven by price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity or order book pressure.
Ten signals, one number. Every signal is scored against this asset's own history, so a reading of greed means greedier than usual for this asset, never a raw comparison between one market and another.
American Express Fear and Greed Components
- Price Score: 48 (Neutral)
- Volatility Score: 78 (Greed)
- Volume Score: 81 (Extreme Greed)
- Impulse Score: 56 (Neutral)
- Technical Score: 39 (Fear)
- Social Score: 49 (Neutral)
- Dominance Score: 27 (Fear)
- Search Score: 24 (Fear)
- Whale Score: 50 (Neutral)
- Order Book Score: 14 (Extreme Fear)
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American Express Market Sentiment Today
American Express market sentiment today is shaped by price action, volatility, trading volume, technical indicators, social activity and wider market behaviour. CFGI combines these signals to show how American Express sentiment is changing throughout the day.
Compare American Express with the whole-market reading on the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index, or every company on the stock fear and greed directory.
What Is American Express?
The premium pulse.
American Express has been in the business of trust since 1850, a payments network that issues its own premium cards, lends to its own members and keeps the whole loop in-house. Its cardholders skew affluent, which makes the stock a live reading on how confident wealthy consumers feel. On the CFGI American Express fear and greed index, the crowd's confidence has a habit of peaking to the day.
The CFGI read: On 11 December 2025 the American Express crowd entered Extreme Greed, one of only 6 such days in its whole window, and the price printed its high of $384.89 the very same session. The crowd's loudest day and the price's best day were one and the same. The comedown had a date too: 16 out of 100 on 3 March 2026 at $307.82, when 92 of 245 stocks sat in Fear or worse but only 4 joined it in Extreme Fear.
American Express Fear and Greed Index History
Q3 2026 breakdown. The table below updates daily.
For most of the year this was a Greed-leaning crowd: 104 days in Greed, a 19-session Greed-or-better run from 17 October to 12 November 2025, and an average of 52 out of 100. The recoveries were sharp when they came, none sharper than 26 February 2026, when the score leapt 33 points from 19 to 52 straight out of a two-day Extreme Fear spell on 24 and 25 February.
The final month broke the pattern. The score reached 82, Extreme Greed, on 7 July 2026 at $356.03, then shed 40 points to 42 on 9 July, its steepest fall of the window, and drifted to 21, Fear, by 24 July 2026. The price told a quieter story, up 8.7% from $299.63 to $325.62 with a low of $292.27 on 27 March 2026. On the full Fear and Greed Index American Express is the crowd whose emotions clock in and out with the price itself, rarely early, rarely late.
Days by zone, the last 365 days (250 readings)
| Extreme Fear | Fear | Neutral | Greed | Extreme Greed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extreme Fear: 4 | Fear: 72 | Neutral: 77 | Greed: 93 | Extreme Greed: 4 |
Source: CFGI dataset, 250 daily readings across the 365 days to 31 Jul 2026. Updates daily.
For the market American Express trades in, see the stock fear and greed index, which scores the whole US market on the same 0 to 100 scale.
American Express Company (AXP) Stock Fundamentals, Analyst Ratings & Financials
Beyond the sentiment score: the fundamentals, analyst views and financials for American Express Company (AXP), for context alongside the live Fear and Greed reading above. Company data via Financial Modeling Prep.
About American Express Company
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial - Credit Services
- CEO
- Stephen Joseph Squeri
- Employees
- 76,800
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Headquarters
- New York City, NY, US
- Listed
- Jun 1, 1972
- Website
- www.americanexpress.com
Key Stats & Valuation
- Market cap
- $227.1B
- P/E (TTM)
- 20.4
- P/B
- 6.65
- Net margin
- 13.61%
- Beta
- 1.04
- Dividend yield
- 1.05%
- 52-week range
- $291 – $387
- 47% of range
Analyst Ratings & Price Target
What Wall Street thinks: the consensus rating and average price target from 57 independent equity analysts covering AXP.
Ratings and price targets are aggregated from independent Wall Street analysts (data via Financial Modeling Prep). They are not investment advice or a recommendation from CFGI.
Earnings
Next earnings: Oct 23, 2026 · EPS estimate $4.58 per share.
| Reported | EPS actual | Estimate | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2026 | $4.53 | $4.41 | +3% |
| Apr 23, 2026 | $4.28 | $4.00 | +7% |
| Jan 30, 2026 | $3.53 | $3.54 | +0% |
| Oct 17, 2025 | $4.14 | $4.00 | +3% |
EPS figures are earnings per share (USD), not total company profit.
Financials
Annual revenue, net income and earnings per share. “Growth” is year-over-year revenue.
| Year | Revenue | Growth | Net income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $80.46B | +8% | $10.83B | $15.41 |
| 2024 | $74.20B | +10% | $10.13B | $14.04 |
| 2023 | $67.36B | +21% | $8.37B | $11.23 |
| 2022 | $55.63B | +25% | $7.51B | $9.85 |
| 2021 | $44.43B | +16% | $8.06B | $10.03 |
| 2020 | $38.34B | -19% | $3.13B | $3.77 |
| 2019 | $47.10B | +9% | $6.76B | $8.01 |
| 2018 | $43.26B | +11% | $6.92B | $8.09 |
| 2017 | $38.99B | +2% | $2.75B | $2.98 |
| 2016 | $38.36B | +12% | $5.38B | $5.67 |
| 2015 | $34.38B | -2% | $5.16B | $5.07 |
| 2014 | $35.15B | +1% | $5.88B | $5.58 |
| 2013 | $34.82B | +3% | $5.36B | $4.91 |
| 2012 | $33.78B | +5% | $4.48B | $3.91 |
| 2011 | $32.28B | +8% | $4.93B | $4.14 |
| 2010 | $30.00B | +14% | $4.06B | $3.37 |
| 2009 | $26.33B | -18% | $2.13B | $1.54 |
| 2008 | $31.92B | +1% | $2.70B | $2.34 |
| 2007 | $31.54B | +14% | $4.01B | $3.42 |
| 2006 | $27.69B | +13% | $3.71B | $3.06 |
| 2005 | $24.40B | +8% | $3.67B | $3.03 |
| 2004 | $22.57B | -13% | $3.44B | $2.74 |
| 2003 | $25.87B | +9% | $2.99B | $2.33 |
| 2002 | $23.81B | +5% | $2.67B | $2.02 |
| 2001 | $22.58B | -5% | $1.31B | $0.99 |
| 2000 | $23.68B | +11% | $2.81B | $2.12 |
| 1999 | $21.28B | +11% | $2.48B | $1.85 |
| 1998 | $19.13B | +8% | $2.14B | $1.57 |
| 1997 | $17.76B | +9% | $1.99B | $1.43 |
| 1996 | $16.24B | +2% | $1.90B | $1.30 |
| 1995 | $15.84B | +11% | $1.56B | $1.04 |
| 1994 | $14.28B | +1% | $1.41B | $0.92 |
| 1993 | $14.17B | -47% | $1.48B | $0.78 |
| 1992 | $26.96B | +5% | $461.5M | $0.30 |
| 1991 | $25.76B | +6% | $789.0M | $0.53 |
| 1990 | $24.33B | -3% | $181.0M | $0.11 |
| 1989 | $25.05B | — | $1.16B | $0.90 |
| 1988 | $0 | — | $1.04B | $0.82 |
| 1987 | $0 | — | $533.0M | $0.41 |
| 1986 | $0 | — | $1.11B | $0.82 |
Bar = revenue; green grew, red fell vs the prior year.
Dividends
- Dividend yield
- 1.05%
- Last dividend
- $0.95
- Ex-date
- Jul 2, 2026
American Express Fear and Greed Index FAQ
What is the American Express Fear and Greed Index today?
The American Express Fear and Greed Index today is 45/100 on the daily view, showing Neutral. It summarizes live American Express market sentiment on a 0 to 100 scale.
How is the American Express Fear and Greed Index calculated?
CFGI combines price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity and order book pressure into one American Express fear and greed reading.
What is a good American Express Fear and Greed Index reading?
There is no single good reading, because the index measures mood rather than value. Extreme Fear below 25 marks the points where sentiment is most washed out, and Extreme Greed above 75 the points carrying the most risk, so what counts as good depends on whether you are buying or selling.
How accurate is the American Express Fear and Greed Index?
It reads sentiment accurately and predicts price poorly, and those are two different things. The score reflects what the American Express market feels right now across ten live inputs, so treat it as a risk gauge rather than a forecast: it tells you how one-sided the crowd has become, not what happens next.
What does the American Express Fear and Greed Index measure?
It measures the emotional state of the American Express market on a 0 to 100 scale, from extreme fear at 0 to extreme greed at 100. CFGI builds that number from ten indicators including price action, volatility, volume, momentum, technicals and social sentiment, rather than from price alone.
How do I use the American Express Fear and Greed Index?
Most people use it to size risk rather than to time entries. The extreme readings are the useful ones: they flag when the crowd has become one-sided, which is when caution costs least and greed costs most. Read it alongside price and volume, never on its own.
How often is the American Express Fear and Greed Index updated?
The American Express Fear and Greed Index is updated every 15 minutes, so the live reading can change as American Express market conditions shift.
What does a low American Express Fear and Greed score mean?
A low score (0 to 39) signals fear or extreme fear, where traders are cautious, risk-averse or pessimistic about the American Express market.
What does a high American Express Fear and Greed score mean?
A high score (60 to 100) signals greed or extreme greed, where confidence, risk appetite and bullish sentiment dominate the American Express market.
Can I get alerts when the American Express Fear and Greed Index changes?
Yes. CFGI alerts let you track American Express sentiment across daily, 4-hour, 1-hour and 15-minute timeframes. Create alerts for fear, greed, extreme readings or specific American Express Fear and Greed Index score changes.
Can I add the American Express Fear and Greed Index to my website?
Yes. The CFGI widget lets you embed a live American Express Fear and Greed Index on your website, so visitors can see current American Express sentiment, live scores and market conditions without you building the data system yourself.
Can I use American Express Fear and Greed data in my own app or trading bot?
Yes. The CFGI API gives developers access to American Express sentiment data, multi-timeframe fear and greed scores and market signals for dashboards, trading bots, apps and research tools.
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The widget is free, it updates itself, and it needs no account. Paste one line and your readers see the live score without leaving your page. If you would rather have the raw numbers, the API serves the same data for dashboards, bots and research.
About CFGI
The per-asset sentiment record.
CFGI is a market sentiment data company that scores crowd emotion from 0 to 100 across crypto and stock markets. Crypto readings cover the whole market and hundreds of individual assets across 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily views. The stock index gives a live daily reading for wider stock market sentiment.
Every CFGI score is built from 10 indicators: price, volatility, volume, impulse, technical analysis, social media, dominance, search interest, whale movements and order book pressure. The same data powers our API, alerts and embeddable widgets.