AMERICAN EXPRESS CO — Director's Dealing 2015

Jan 29, 2015

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: AMERICAN EXPRESS CO (AXP)
CIK: 0000004962
Period of Report: 2015-01-26

Reporting Person: Squeri Stephen J (Group Pres., Global Corp Serv)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2014-01-23	Common Stock	G	4000	—	Disposed	141205.66	Direct
2015-01-26	Common Stock	A	38535	$83.30	Acquired	158697.711	Direct
2015-01-26	Common Stock	F	18129	$83.30	Disposed	140568.711	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	112.95	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: The reported disposition represents a bona fide charitable gift made by the reporting person.

F2: Represents shares acquired pursuant to vesting of Restricted Stock Units ("performance units") that were granted to the reporting person in January 2012 and have vested based on the Company's 2012-15 return on average equity performance. Pursuant to the Company's stock ownership guidelines, the reporting person is required to hold a portion of shares received upon vesting for a period of time.

F3: The reported disposition represents the surrender of shares to satisfy tax obligations arising from the vesting of Restricted Stock Units.

F4: The reporting person's end of period holdings reflect prior transfers of shares pursuant to a domestic relations order as well as shares acquired pursuant to dividend reinvestment.

F5: Shares held in reporting person's account under the Company's Incentive Savings Plan. This plan uses unit accounting, and the number of shares that a participant is deemed to hold varies with the unit price of the Company pooled stock fund.