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Nasdaq — Historical Charts and Data
Every Nasdaq chart, valuation metric, drawdown record, and constituent breakdown from History of Market. 18 panels, refreshed daily.
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Nasdaq Composite · Century — Nasdaq Composite — Half a Century, Start to Now
Opened at 100 on 5 February 1971; now above 16,000. The line runs parallel to the rise of American technology.
Nasdaq · Log YoY — Nasdaq Bull/Bear — Log Year-Over-Year
Crosses zero more often than the S&P's, and dips deeper when it does. The dot-com unwind of 2000 and the tightening of 2022 are the two deepest negative stretches — the tech index's bull-to-bear transitions are sharper, so the same regime line fires more often.
Nasdaq 100 · Constituent Return Ranking — 1-Week / 1-Month / YTD / 1-Year Return Rankings
Toggle in the top right between trailing 1-week, 1-month, year-to-date, and 1-year windows. The short-window leaderboard moves daily; on the 1-year view the dispersion from first place to hundredth is unusually wide — long-run Nasdaq 100 performance is carried by a small group at the top.
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Nasdaq 100 · Forward PE (Bloomberg) — Nasdaq 100 · Forward PE — Twenty-Five Years
Bloomberg's "BEst P/E Ratio" — analyst consensus for Nasdaq 100 earnings over the next twelve months — monthly from January 2001 to today. The 2001-2003 stretch looks like a spike because Nasdaq earnings collapsed near zero during the dot-com bust, distorting the denominator and pushing one month to ~199×. Zoom out to 5- or 10-year windows to see today's ~25× against its real reference frame.
Nasdaq 100 · Return Decomposition (Forward) — Nasdaq 100 · Rerating × Revision
NDX has no clean trailing TTM PE history; Bloomberg's monthly forward PE snapshots go back to 2001. So this table decomposes returns as 'forward-PE rerating + forward-EPS revision'. The multiple piece says how the market's appetite for next year's earnings moved; the EPS piece says how analysts revised those next-year estimates. Note the basis differs from the SP500 table — read this one as 'sentiment + consensus revisions', not 'today's earnings'.
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QQQ · Annual Returns — QQQ Annual Returns
Roughly 15% annualized since 1999. The deepest single-year loss came in 2008 at -42%. High return and high volatility travel together.
Nasdaq 100 · Return Distribution — Nasdaq 100 Annual Return Distribution
Every year since 1986 binned by total return (dividends reinvested) into eleven buckets. Across 41 years the right tail cleared +50% five times and the left tail broke -40% once — a first-hand feel for 'high mean ≠ steady growth'.
Nasdaq 100 · Annualized Matrix — Nasdaq 100 · Pick Entry, Pick Exit
The annualized return matrix since 1986. Longer holds pull annualized outcomes toward the long-term mean.
Nasdaq 100 · 5Y Rolling — Nasdaq 100 · Five-Year Rolling Annualized
Monthly observations since 1990, each looking back five years. The deepest windows touched -20% annualised — buying the 2000 peak still left you underwater by 2005. The distribution runs wider than the S&P 500's: the best five years go higher, the worst five years go deeper.
QQQ · Return Decomposition — QQQ Total Return · Price / Dividend / Buyback
Six years of reliable buyback data. Within tech's total return, the buyback component continues to grow.
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Nasdaq 100 · Historical Drawdowns — Nasdaq 100 · Fifty-Nine Historical Drawdowns
Down 83% cumulatively from 2000 to 2002. Still the clearest textbook case of a bubble and its unwind.
Nasdaq 100 · Intrayear Drawdown — Nasdaq 100 · Deepest Intrayear Drop vs Year-End Outcome
Intrayear drawdown averages about 18%, yet 83% of years still close green and the year-end average lands near +18%. Tech's appeal and cost live in that gap — 2000, 2008, and 2022 are the years when the trade didn't pay.
Nasdaq 100 · Realized Volatility — Nasdaq 100 · 20/60-Day Annualized Volatility
Median near 22%, systematically one notch above the S&P 500. Structural high vol isn't a regime change for the tech asset class — it's the baseline. Owning the index means accepting the wider amplitude.
VXN · Nasdaq 100 Fear Index — VXN · The Nasdaq 100 Volatility Index
Launched by CBOE in 2001. A VXN reading above 35 typically signals that technology has entered systemic risk territory.
Nasdaq 100 · Monthly Heatmap — Nasdaq 100 Monthly Return Heatmap
Since 1985. November and December post the highest monthly win rates; January and September register the most frequent declines.
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Nasdaq 100 · Top Holdings — Top Holdings & Cumulative Weight
Public holding weights cover the largest names; the rest is grouped as Others. The more concentrated the index, the more its performance rides on a few leaders.
Nasdaq 100 · Constituents — Market Cap · 1-Year Return · QQQ Weight
X-axis is market cap, Y-axis is trailing 12-month return, bubble size scales with QQQ weight. Every Nasdaq-100 constituent on one canvas — drag the sliders to read individual names.
Nasdaq 100 · Constituents — Nasdaq 100 · Constituents and Weight Distribution
The weight gap between the largest holdings and the rest of the roster is unusually wide. The more concentrated the index, the more its performance depends on a handful of leaders.