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    Nasdaq (NDAQ) Gains Fresh Backing After Q3 Results While Fair Value Looks Tight

    Simply Wall St·10/29/2026 13:35:45
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    Nasdaq (NDAQ) just paired strong third quarter earnings with a regular dividend and fresh leadership moves in Asia-Pacific and the boardroom, giving investors several new data points to assess the stock.

    Recent trading shows that momentum in Nasdaq has picked up, with a 1-day share price return of 1.14%, a 7-day share price return of 9.81% and a 30-day share price return of 13.96%, building on a 1-year total shareholder return of 25.20%.

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    After a 25.2% one year total return and a share price near US$105.55, Nasdaq now trades roughly 8% below the average analyst target of US$115.25. Is that discount caution or opportunity?

    Most Popular Narrative: 1% Overvalued

    On the most followed valuation narrative, Nasdaq trades slightly above its fair value, with a quoted estimate of $104.19 against a last close of $105.55. That small premium puts more weight on the quality of the story behind the numbers than on a big headline gap.

    Four crashes, four different causes, four different recovery timelines, two years, fifteen years, years, months. If there were a reliable way to know in real time which kind you were in, that would be worth more than almost anything else in investing. Nobody has reliably had that in any of these four cases. What every one of them rewarded instead was the boring stuff, not being leveraged past what you could survive, having a plan for how much you were willing to lose before you needed to act on it, and not needing to guess correctly about the recovery shape to avoid being wiped out waiting for it.

    See why 5 investors see Nasdaq as 1% overvalued.

    Result: Fair Value of $104.19 (OVERVALUED)

    Still, the fair value story could unravel if Nasdaq underdelivers on its technology pivot or if regulation raises costs across its trading and data platforms.

    Find out about the key risks to this Nasdaq narrative.

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