American Express Company (AXP) Earnings Beat: EPS $1.15

American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) announced its earnings for the first quarter of 2013 today Wednesday April 17 after the market closed. For the first three months of the year the credit card company showed earnings per share of $1.15 on revenues of $7.88 billion. On today’s market, shares in American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) trended down, closing at $64.13, down 0.71%. Analysts were looking for earnings per share of $1.13 for the first quarter of 2013, on revenues of $8 billion. In the same three months of 2012, the company earned $1.07 per share on revenue of $7.6 billion. The company’s…