What Are the Fundamentals of Nasdaq (NDAQ)?

By Kim Brooks • Thursday, October 19 09:56 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Nasdaq, a Capital Markets company whose shares moved -0.4% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Nasdaq has moved -8.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 19.0%
NDAQ has an average analyst rating of buy and is -13.24% away from its mean target price of $59.62 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.23
Nasdaq has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 23.2 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.88 and its forward P/E ratio is 18.0
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 4.08 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Nasdaq is part of the Finance sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 14.34 and an average P/B of 1.57
NDAQ has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -12.9% and gross profit margins of 0.6%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.38 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Nasdaq, Inc. operates as a technology company that serves capital markets and other industries worldwide. It operates in three segments: Market Platforms, Capital Access Platforms, and Anti-Financial Crime. The Market Platforms segment trading services, including equity derivative trading and clearing, cash equity trading, fixed income and commodities trading and clearing, and trade management service businesses. This segment operates various exchanges and other marketplace facilities across various asset classes, which include derivatives, commodities, cash equity, debt, structured products, and exchange traded products; and provides broker, clearing, settlement, and central depository services. This segment also handles assets, such as cash equities, equity derivatives, currencies, interest-bearing securities, commodities, energy products, and digital currencies. The Capital Access Platforms segment sells and distributes historical and real-time market data; develops and licenses Nasdaq-branded indexes and financial products; operates listing platforms; investment insights and workflow solutions; and offers investor relations intelligence, ESG solutions, and governance solutions. The Anti-Financial Crime segment includes anti financial crime management solutions, which offers Nasdaq Trade Surveillance, a SaaS solution for brokers and other market participants to assist them in complying with market rules, regulations, and internal market surveillance policies; Nasdaq Market Surveillance, a market surveillance solution for markets and regulators; and Verafin, a SaaS technology provider of anti-financial crime management solutions. The company was formerly known as The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. and changed its name to Nasdaq, Inc. in September 2015. Nasdaq, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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