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: 2019-06-13

Reporting Person: Buckminster Douglas E. (Grp Pres, Glb Consumer Svcs)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2019-06-13	Common Stock	G	340	—	Disposed	46183.971	Direct
2020-01-28	Common Stock	A	20918	$132.45	Acquired	67209.914	Direct
2020-01-28	Common Stock	F	10102	$132.45	Disposed	57107.914	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	20918	Acquired	2027-01-28	Common Stock (20918)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	32398	Indirect
Common Stock	13647.64	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 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.

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

F4: Includes shares acquired pursuant to dividend reinvestment.

F5: 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.

F6: 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.