The NASDAQ Composite is a market-capitalization price-only index that reflects the aggregate performance of domestic common stocks traded on the regular NASDAQ market, as well as national market system traded foreign common stocks and ADRs. It is not an investment product available for purchase.
a market-capitalization weighted average of approximately 5,000 stocks traded electronically in the NASDAQ market.
A stock performance index that represents the performance of all stocks traded on the NASDAQ over-the-counter market, currently more than 5,000 issues.
This broad-based index measures the performance of the Nasdaq Stock Market. It tracks more than 5,000 companies and is considered a gauge of how technology stocks are faring.
An index based on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) system representing many domestic over-the-counter stocks.
NASDAQ stands for the National Association of Security Dealers Automatic Quotation system, a quotation system for over-the-counter securities. It covers over 4,500 stocks traded over-the-counter and represents many small company stocks, but is heavily influenced by about 100 of the largest NASDAQ stocks.
The Nasdaq Composite is a stock market index of all of the stocks listed on the NASDAQ stock market, meaning that it has over 3,000 components. It is the most watched index of the performance of stocks of technology companies and growth companies. Since both U.S. and non-U.S. companies are listed on the NASDAQ stock market, the index is not an exclusively U.S. index.