Nasdaq Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:NDAQ)

Nasdaq trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "NDAQ."

Nasdaq declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.47 per share on Friday, September 27th. This represents a $1.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.86%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 12th. View Nasdaq's Dividend History.

Nasdaq announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase program on Tuesday, January 30th 2018, which allows the company to buyback $500,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Nasdaq Inc (NASDAQ:NDAQ) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 24th. The financial services provider reported $1.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.14 by $0.01. The financial services provider had revenue of $600 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $605.67 million. Nasdaq had a return on equity of 14.68% and a net margin of 12.86%. Nasdaq's revenue was down .5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $1.01 earnings per share. View Nasdaq's Earnings History.

Nasdaq is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Nasdaq.

9 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Nasdaq's shares. Their predictions range from $88.00 to $114.00. On average, they expect Nasdaq's stock price to reach $104.44 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 3.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Nasdaq.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Nasdaq in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Nasdaq.

Press coverage about NDAQ stock has trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Nasdaq earned a coverage optimism score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Nasdaq.

Nasdaq saw a increase in short interest in the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 2,200,000 shares, an increase of 7.3% from the August 15th total of 2,050,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 725,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.0 days. Currently, 1.9% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Nasdaq's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Nasdaq include CME Group (CME), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), Msci (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), Marlin Business Services (MRLN), California First National Bancorp (CFNB), Gain Capital (GCAP) and Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Nasdaq investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Micron Technology (MU), Puma Biotechnology (PBYI), Alibaba Group (BABA), Baidu (BIDU), Medivation (MDVN), Visa (V), Incyte (INCY) and Intel (INTC).

Nasdaq's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Perpetual Ltd (0.17%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.14%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.13%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.12%), Strs Ohio (0.07%) and State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D (0.06%). Company insiders that own Nasdaq stock include Ann M Dennison, Bradley J Peterson, Charlene T Begley, Edward S Knight, Lars Ottersgard, Lars Wedenborn, Pc Nelson Griggs and Thomas A Wittman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Nasdaq.

NDAQ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Perpetual Ltd, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Three Peaks Capital Management LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, WESPAC Advisors SoCal LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp and Regentatlantic Capital LLC. Company insiders that have sold Nasdaq company stock in the last year include Ann M Dennison, Bradley J Peterson, Charlene T Begley, Edward S Knight, Lars Ottersgard, Lars Wedenborn, Pc Nelson Griggs and Thomas A Wittman. View Insider Buying and Selling for Nasdaq.

NDAQ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Strs Ohio, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Verus Financial Partners Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank and Rhumbline Advisers. View Insider Buying and Selling for Nasdaq.

Shares of NDAQ can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of NDAQ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $101.31.

Nasdaq has a market capitalization of $16.68 billion and generates $4.28 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $458 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.84 on an earnings per share basis. Nasdaq employs 4,099 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Nasdaq.

The official website for Nasdaq is http://www.business.nasdaq.com/.

Nasdaq's mailing address is 151 W. 42ND STREET, NEW YORK NY, 10036. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 212-401-8700 or via email at [email protected]