Nasdaq Stock Forecast, Price & News

Nasdaq's stock was trading at $99.32 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, NDAQ shares have increased by 41.4% and is now trading at $140.42.
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14 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Nasdaq in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" Nasdaq stock.
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1,448 employees have rated Nasdaq CEO Doug Parker on Glassdoor.com. Doug Parker has an approval rating of 60% among Nasdaq's employees. This puts Doug Parker in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Nasdaq is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 27th 2021.
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Nasdaq will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, January 27th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Nasdaq, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 21st. The financial services provider reported $1.53 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.45 by $0.08. The financial services provider earned $715 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $691.07 million. Nasdaq had a net margin of 17.41% and a return on equity of 17.15%. The company's revenue was up 13.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.27 earnings per share.
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Nasdaq declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 21st. Investors of record on Friday, December 4th will be paid a dividend of $0.49 per share on Friday, December 18th. This represents a $1.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.40%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 3rd.
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Nasdaq pays an annual dividend of $1.96 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.39%. Nasdaq has been increasing its dividend for 6 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio of Nasdaq is 39.20%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Nasdaq will have a dividend payout ratio of 31.46% next year. This indicates that Nasdaq will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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14 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Nasdaq's stock. Their forecasts range from $100.00 to $164.00. On average, they expect Nasdaq's share price to reach $138.11 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.6%.
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Nasdaq saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,630,000 shares, an increase of 39.9% from the December 15th total of 1,880,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 845,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.1 days. Approximately 2.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to Nasdaq include CME Group (CME), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), MSCI (MSCI), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MarketAxess (MKTX), Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), Arrow Financial (AROW), California First National Bancorp (CFNB) and Marlin Business Services (MRLN).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Nasdaq investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Cisco Systems (CSCO), The Walt Disney (DIS), Square (SQ), Intel (INTC), Micron Technology (MU), Visa (V), The Home Depot (HD) and Baidu (BIDU).

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

Nasdaq's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Pendal Group Limited (0.50%), Ardevora Asset Management LLP (0.26%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (0.14%), Sabal Trust CO (0.09%), CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp (0.03%) and Highland Capital Management LLC (0.02%). Company insiders that own Nasdaq stock include Ann M Dennison, Bjorn Sibbern, Bradley J Peterson, Bryan Everard Smith, Charlene T Begley, Edward S Knight, Jeremy Skule, Lars Ottersgard, Lars Wedenborn, Pc Nelson Griggs and Thomas A Wittman.
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NDAQ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Avantax Advisory Services Inc., CX Institutional, DNB Asset Management AS, Highland Capital Management LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Pendal Group Limited, and CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp. Company insiders that have sold Nasdaq company stock in the last year include Bjorn Sibbern, Bradley J Peterson, Bryan Everard Smith, Jeremy Skule, Lars Ottersgard, and Pc Nelson Griggs.
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NDAQ stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Ardevora Asset Management LLP, Sabal Trust CO, Kestra Advisory Services LLC, Park Avenue Securities LLC, Raymond James Trust N.A., IFM Investors Pty Ltd, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, and Ibex Wealth Advisors.
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Shares of NDAQ can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of NDAQ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $140.42.

Nasdaq has a market capitalization of $23.03 billion and generates $4.37 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $774 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.00 on an earnings per share basis. Nasdaq employs 4,361 workers across the globe.

The official website for Nasdaq is www.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]