How to buy Nasdaq (NDAQ) stocks

Nasdaq is a financial data & stock exchanges business based in the US. Nasdaq shares (NDAQ) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

Its last market close was $72.98 – a decrease of 4.19% over the previous week. Nasdaq employs 9,162 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $7.4 billion.

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Nasdaq stock price (NASDAQ: NDAQ)

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Nasdaq stocks at a glance

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Information last updated 2025-03-06.

Latest market close	$72.98
52-week range	$57.36 - $84.15
50-day moving average more info button	$79.85
200-day moving average more info button	$72.45
Wall St. target price	$88.61
PE ratio more info button	39.4663
Dividend yield more info button	$0.94 (1.22%)
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$1.93

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Nasdaq price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $72.29 from 2025-03-11

1 week (2025-03-06)	-5.09%
1 month (2025-02-13)	-11.51%
3 months (2024-12-13)	-9.77%
6 months (2024-09-13)	-0.97%

1 year (2024-03-13)	21.41%
2 years (2023-03-13)	43.40%
3 years (2022-03-11)	36.98%
5 years (2020-03-13)	141.54%

Is Nasdaq stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Nasdaq stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Nasdaq's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Nasdaq's P/E ratio

Nasdaq's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 39x. In other words, Nasdaq shares trade at around 39x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the stock or simply that they're over-valued.

Nasdaq's PEG ratio

Nasdaq's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.6067. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Nasdaq's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Nasdaq's EBITDA

Nasdaq's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $2.6 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Nasdaq's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Nasdaq financials

Revenue TTM	$7.4 billion
Operating margin TTM	27.59%
Gross profit TTM	$4.6 billion
Return on assets TTM	4%
Return on equity TTM	10.12%
Profit margin	15.1%
Book value	$19.46
Market Capitalization more info button	$43.8 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Nasdaq stock dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 34.04% of net profits

Recently Nasdaq has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Nasdaq shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Nasdaq's case, that would currently equate to about $0.94 per share.

While Nasdaq's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Nasdaq may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Nasdaq's most recent dividend payout was on 27 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their stocks by 13 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Nasdaq's stocks ever split?

Nasdaq's stocks were split on a 3:1 basis on 28 August 2022 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Nasdaq stocks – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 66.7% lower stock price could have impacted the market appetite for Nasdaq stocks, which in turn could have impacted Nasdaq's stock price.

Nasdaq stock price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Nasdaq's stocks have ranged in value from as little as $57.3642 up to $84.15. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta."

Beta is a measure of a stocks volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Nasdaq's is 0.971. This would suggest that Nasdaq's stocks are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Nasdaq overview

Nasdaq, Inc. operates as a technology company that serves capital markets and other industries worldwide. It operates in three segments: Capital Access Platforms, Financial Technology, and Market Services. The company distributes historical and real-time market data; develops and licenses Nasdaq-branded indices and financial products; investor relations intelligence, governance solutions, and sustainability solution products for public and private companies and organizations; and insights and workflow solutions, as well as operates listing platforms. It also offers Verafin, a cloud-based platform to detect, investigate, and report money laundering and financial frauds; AxiomSL, a risk data management and regulatory reporting solution; surveillance solutions, including a SaaS platform to assist in complying with market rules, regulations, and internal market surveillance policies; Calypso, a platform providing cross-asset, front-to-back trading, treasury, risk, and collateral management solutions; and handles assets comprising cash equities, equity derivatives, currencies, various interest-bearing securities, commodities, energy products, and digital currencies; and trade management and colocation services. In addition, the company provides equity derivative trading and clearing, cash equity trading, fixed income and commodities trading and clearing, and currency trading services; and operates various exchanges, including derivatives, commodities, cash equity, debt, structured products, and exchange traded products; and clearing, settlement, and central depository services. The company was formerly known as The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

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Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Nasdaq is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 10.939% of Nasdaq stocks are held by insiders and 85.677% by institutions. How many people work for Nasdaq?
Latest data suggests 9,162 work at Nasdaq. When does the fiscal year end for Nasdaq?
Nasdaq's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Nasdaq based?
Nasdaq's address is: 151 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, United States, 10036 What is Nasdaq's ISIN number?
Nasdaq's international securities identification number is: US6311031081 What is Nasdaq's CUSIP number?
Nasdaq's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 631103108

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