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Nasdaq, Inc. NDAQ

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
3 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$8.3B
▲ 11.6% YoY
$1.8B
▲ 60.1% YoY
$2.0B
▲ 14.8% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Nasdaq, Inc. manages, operates, and provides its products and services in three business segments: Capital Access Platforms, Financial Technology, and Market Services. As of December 31, 2025, a total of 5,599 companies listed securities on its U.S., Nasdaq Nordic, Nasdaq Baltic, and Nasdaq First North exchanges. Through its Financial Technology solutions, it powers more than 135 marketplaces and regulators in more than 55 countries, serving approximately 3,800 global clients. Nasdaq was founded in 1971 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of FINRA.

Written from the business description in NASDAQ, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 12 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 8.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 8.3 · Net income 1.8
3B6B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+9.9%
+8.0%
+9.3%
+6.5%
+16.7%
+13.9%
+15.4%
+10.6%
+11.0%
+10.4%
+22.1%
+17.6%
+9.4%
+2.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +8.0% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +13.9%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

22 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 28.2% · Net 21.6%
10%20%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 15.3%
5%10%15%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity produced 15 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 1.2B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 2.0
1B2B
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 601.0 · Net buybacks 616.0
500M1000MDividendsNet buybacks
201020122014201620182020202220242025
Dividends paidUSD 601.0M
Net buybacksUSD 616.0M
Share of profit68.1%
Consecutive raises3 years (since the 2022 share-count change)

USD 601.0M in dividends and USD 616.0M in buybacks — 68% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 31.1B
EquityUSD 12.2B
CashUSD 604.0M
Gross debtUSD 9.0B
Net debtUSD 8.4B
Current ratio1.01×

Net debt stands at 69% of equity.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
NDAQ, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B8.37.46.16.25.95.64.34.33.93.73.43.53.23.13.43.23.43.6
Operating income $B2.31.81.61.61.41.21.01.01.00.80.70.80.70.70.70.60.60.6
EBITDA $B2.51.91.71.71.51.31.11.11.10.90.80.80.70.70.80.70.7◌
Income tax $B0.40.30.30.40.30.30.20.60.10.00.20.20.20.20.20.10.1−0.0
Net income $B1.81.11.11.11.20.90.80.50.70.10.40.40.40.40.40.40.30.3
Free cash flow $B2.01.71.51.60.91.10.80.90.80.60.60.50.50.50.60.40.50.2
EPS, diluted $3.091.932.082.262.351.864.632.734.300.632.502.392.252.042.151.911.251.55
Dividend / sh $1.050.940.860.780.700.651.851.701.461.210.900.580.520.39◌◌◌◌
Payout %34484234293439613318935242318————
ROE %15.310.212.517.918.515.514.08.112.91.97.56.96.86.98.08.25.87.3
Shares out B0.570.580.570.490.170.160.170.170.170.170.160.170.170.170.170.180.21◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 87 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivitySecurity & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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