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AXP vs GS

Goldman Sachs is primarily an investment bank and asset manager; American Express combines a card network with lending. Their business models are different, so compare the measures with care.

AXP report · AXP financials · GS report · GS financials

Price data through an unavailable date for AXP and an unavailable date for GS. Filing periods shown by the reports are 2026-06-30 and 2026-06-30. Matching report-level filing periods do not prove that every metric covers the same window. The reports use different financial profiles, so filing-row winners are left open.

Drawdown is the largest fall from a prior peak in the covered history. Annualized volatility describes how widely returns varied; neither measure predicts what happens next.

AXP
Finance Services
Stronger on
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nothing decided yet
GS
Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies

If you had put $1,000 in, five years ago

Price only, dividends aside. The past does not repeat, but it shows what kind of ride each one has been.

Amount · updates as you type
$
AXP▲Grew
$1,975
+$975
gained
Your $1,0002.0× your money
You would be up $975 on your $1,000.
Along the way it fell 32.0% at its worst.
GS▲Doubled
$2,766
+$1,766
gained
Your $1,0002.8× your money
You would be up $1,766 on your $1,000.
Along the way it fell 34.0% at its worst. It beat AXP over the last twelve months.

Measure by measure

Good on its ownMiddlingPoor

Two things are marked on every row: which company is stronger, and whether that figure is any good in absolute terms. Winning a row does not make a number good.

Five-year returnTotal return · higher is better

What the share price did over the whole window we hold prices for.

AXP
+97.5%
No contest to draw. The price windows have different or unknown dates or coverage.
GS
+176.6%
Over the window on file AXP returned +97.5% against GS’s +176.6%.
Last twelve months12-month return · higher is better

The most recent year on its own. A large five-year figure can hide a flat stretch right now.

AXP
+15.7%
No contest to draw. The price windows have different or unknown dates or coverage.
GS
+44.4%
In the last twelve months AXP returned +15.7% and GS +44.4%.
Worst dropMax drawdown · a shallower fall is better

The largest fall from a high to the low that followed it. This is what holding it would have felt like at its worst.

AXP
-32.0%
Middling
No contest to draw. The price windows have different or unknown dates or coverage.
GS
-34.0%
Middling
AXP’s worst fall from a peak was -32.0%; GS’s was -34.0%.
Typical year’s swingAnnualised volatility · smaller is calmer

How far the price wanders in an ordinary year, up or down.

AXP
29.5%
Middling
No contest to draw. The price windows have different or unknown dates or coverage.
GS
28.6%
Middling
AXP swings about 29.5% in an ordinary year, GS about 28.6%.
So which one
There is not enough on file to put these two side by side.

4 measures stay open because their windows or comparison rules are not aligned.

Not advice. Every read above compares figures on file against ordinary ranges. Which one suits you depends on how long you can leave it alone and how much of a fall you can sit through.