NDAQ Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Nasdaq | NASDAQ:NDAQ)

Founded in 1971, Nasdaq is primarily known for its equity exchange, but in addition to its trading business (about 22.5% of sales), the company sells market and financial data to investors, offers Nasdaq-branded indexes, and lists companies through its capital access segment (42.5%). Nasdaq's newest segment, financial technology, was primarily constructed through the acquisitions of Verafin and Adenza and has expanded the company into capital management, financial crime, and regulatory compliance software (35%) as it seeks to become a diversified technology company.

Nasdaq trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol NDAQ.

As of February 13, 2026, NDAQ stock price climbed to $79.47 with 4,726,754 million shares trading.

NDAQ has a beta of 0.85, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NDAQ has a correlation of 0.30 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NDAQ has a market cap of $45.38 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Nasdaq reported $1 billion in Revenue and $.96 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $19 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.05.

In the last 3 years, NDAQ traded as high as $101.79 and as low as $46.88.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NDAQ belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, VTV, IVV.

NDAQ has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -1.4% while the SPY ETF gained +13.0%. NDAQ has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -8.8% and -18.0%, respectively, while the SPY returned +1.7% and -1.5%, respectively.

NDAQ support price is $77.25 and resistance is $80.77 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that NDAQ shares will trade within this expected range on the day.