AMERICAN EXPRESS CO — Director's Dealing 2022

Feb 2, 2022

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: AMERICAN EXPRESS CO (AXP)
CIK: 0000004962
Period of Report: 2022-01-29

Reporting Person: Squeri Stephen J (Director, Chairman and CEO)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2022-01-29	Common Stock	A	96671	$177.06	Acquired	137048	Direct
2022-01-29	Common Stock	D	48511	$177.06	Disposed	88537	Direct
2022-01-31	Common Stock	G	9092	—	Disposed	287482	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2022-01-29	Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$100.96	A	104407	Acquired	2029-01-29	Common Stock (104407)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	38750	Indirect
Common Stock	128035	Indirect
Common Stock	123.37	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Represents shares acquired pursuant to vesting of Restricted Stock Units that were granted to the reporting person in January 2019 and have vested based on the Company's 2019-21 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: The reported disposition represents a bona fide charitable gift made by the reporting person.

F4: Includes shares acquired pursuant to dividend reinvestment.

F5: Includes shares acquired pursuant to dividend reinvestment.

F6: 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.

F7: The reported acquisition represents the vesting of Stock Options that were granted to the reported person on 1/29/2019. These options became exercisable on 1/29/2022 based on the Company's positive cumulative net income over the three year performance period.