Nasdaq Inc (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is 3.85% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $54.90 and a high of $84.15 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The NDAQ stock was last observed hovering at around $81.21 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.92%.
Currently trading at $80.29, the stock is -0.69% and 0.57% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.5 million and changing -1.13% at the moment leaves the stock 13.22% off its SMA200. NDAQ registered 41.46% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 17.92%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $79.8852 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $70.8232.
The stock witnessed a 5.81% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 2.70%, and is -1.75% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.94% over the week and 1.85% over the month.
Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ) has around 8525 employees, a market worth around $46.15B and $7.40B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 41.69 and Fwd P/E is 22.14. Profit margin for the company is 15.10%. Distance from 52-week low is 46.25% and -4.59% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (5.41%).
with sales reaching $1.22B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 13.29% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 8.42% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 8.99% in year-over-year returns.
Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ) Top Institutional Holders
1239.0 institutions hold shares in Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ), with institutional investors hold 96.18% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 574.76M, and float is at 410.49M with Short Float at 0.84%. Institutions hold 85.87% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is THOMA BRAVO, L.P. with over 85.61 million shares valued at $5.16 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 14.8767% of the NDAQ Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is INVESTOR AB with 58.18 million shares valued at $$3.51 billion to account for 10.1107 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 48.38 million shares representing 8.4081% and valued at over $2.92 billion, while BLACKROCK INC. holds 5.792 of the shares totaling 33.33 million with a market value of $2.01 billion.
Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Tal Cohen,the company’sPresident, Market Platforms. SEC filings show that Tal Cohen sold 8,955 shares of the company’s common stock on Feb 06 ’25 at a price of $83.75 per share for a total of $0.75 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.13 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Feb 03 ’25, Smith Bryan Everard (Executive Vice President) disposed off 3,500 shares at an average price of $81.56 for $0.29 million. The insider now directly holds 55,576 shares of Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ).
