AMERICAN EXPRESS CO — Director's Dealing 2020

Jan 31, 2020

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: AMERICAN EXPRESS CO (AXP)
CIK: 0000004962
Period of Report: 2020-01-28

Reporting Person: Williams Anre D (Group Pres., GMNS)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2020-01-28	Common Stock	A	18303	$132.45	Acquired	71561.661	Direct
2020-01-28	Common Stock	F	7977	$132.45	Disposed	63584.661	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2020-01-28	Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$77.43	A	18303	Acquired	2027-01-28	Common Stock (18303)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	10.08	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Represents shares acquired pursuant to vesting of Restricted Stock Units that were granted to the reporting person in January 2017 and have vested based on the Company's 2017-19 average return on equity performance.

F2: The reported disposition represents the surrender of shares to satisfy tax obligations arising from the vesting of Restricted Stock Units.

F3: 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.

F4: The reported acquisition represents the vesting of Stock Options that were granted to the reporting person in January 2017. These options became exercisable on January 28, 2020.