AmEx's Greatest Challenge Will Be Adapting to the Evolving Technological Landscape in Payments
Wide-moat American Express finished 2018 at a modestly slower pace than we had expected, generating revenue of less than $10.5 billion. Throughout the year, it generated year-over-year growth in billed business ranging from the upper single to low double digits. In the fourth quarter, Amex saw some deceleration in year-over-year growth in billed business, to 6%. Some of this is attributable to Amex facing tougher comparisons. Nevertheless, growth in average card member spending has slowed. For t...American Express is a payments company. The company is engaged in providing credit and charge cards to consumers, small businesses, mid-sized companies and corporations. The company's reportable operating segments are: Global Consumer Services Group, which provides services to consumers, including travel and lifestyle services; Global Commercial Services, which provides payment and expense management services, as weel as commercial financing products; and Global Merchant and Network Services, which operates a global payments network that processes and settles card transactions, acquires merchants and provides multi-channel marketing programs and capabilities, and services and data analytics.
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.
Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.
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