Is American Express Stock a Buy, Sell, or Hold With Shares Trading 20% Below Their 52-Week High?

Key Points American Express stock soared with huge returns over each of the past three years. It reached an all-time high in December of 2025 but is down 19% since then. Is it time now to buy American Express stock? 10 stocks we like better than American Express › American Express (NYSE: AXP) stock soared to a 52-week (and all-time) closing high of $384.79 per share on Dec. 11, 2025, capping a pretty spectacular three-year run for the credit card company. Fueled by the three-year bull market, a growing economy, declining inflation, and robust consumer spending, American Express stock returned 25% in 2025. That followed annual returns of 58% in 2024 and 27% in 2023.