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: CHENAULT KENNETH I (Director, Chairman & CEO)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2014-06-06	Common Stock	G	31430	—	Disposed	702340	Direct
2015-01-26	Common Stock	A	127169	$83.30	Acquired	829509	Direct
2015-01-26	Common Stock	F	63828	$83.30	Disposed	765681	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	67568	Indirect
Common Stock	59122	Indirect
Common Stock	26148	Indirect
Common Stock	23795	Indirect
Common Stock	4158	Indirect
Common Stock	2850	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: The reported disposition represents bona fide charitable gifts 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 50% of shares received upon the vesting of equity awards for a period of one year.

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

F4: Shares held in reporting person's account under the Company's Retirement 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.