vs Yesterday
+95
Typical daily move 80–150 pts.
The Tech-Heavy Benchmark
Nasdaq Composite
18,925
+95 vs. yesterday (+0.50%)
Past 12 months16,800 – 19,180
vs Last Year+1,850
YoY Return+10.8%
All-Time High19,180
The Nasdaq sits at 18,925, off the May 8 record by 1.3%. Up +10.8% YoY — outperforming the Dow by roughly 5.5 percentage points, consistent with the tech beta differential.
Historical trend
Daily close.
Source: Stooq / Nasdaq exchange
The long view: since 1971
From 100 at inception to today — the most explosive index in market history.
ATH 20,204 · Dec 2024
Dot-com peak 5,048 · Mar 2000
Today 18,925
How today stacks up
vs Last Year
+1,850
+10.8% YoY — beating the Dow's 5.3%.
5-Year Average
15,400
Today is +3,525 above the 5-yr mean.
From ATH
−6.3%
Off the Dec 2024 record but on a clear rebuild.
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About the Nasdaq Composite
The Nasdaq Composite tracks all ~3,000 stocks listed on the Nasdaq exchange, weighted by market capitalization. It's heavily concentrated in technology — Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla together make up roughly 45% of the index. That makes the Nasdaq the de facto "tech market index," even though it includes biotech, finance, and consumer companies. Today's 18,925 is about 50% above the pre-2020 pandemic peak.
Why the Nasdaq moves more than the Dow
Tech companies have higher betas — they're more sensitive to interest rates, growth expectations, and risk sentiment. When rates fall, the Nasdaq rallies harder than the broader market because tech valuations rely on far-future cash flows. When rates rise, the Nasdaq sells off harder. The 2022 drawdown (Nasdaq fell 36% peak-to-trough) was largely a rate-rise rerating, not an earnings collapse.
Reading today's level
The Nasdaq hit 20,204 in December 2024 at the AI-rally peak before correcting ~25% by April 2025. The recovery has been steady, with a fresh all-time high of 19,180 on May 8, 2026. Today's level sits just 1.3% below that record. The index has compounded roughly 12.5% annualized since the 2009 GFC low — well above the long-run U.S. equity average.
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Frequently asked
What this number means, and what it doesn't.
The Composite includes ~3,000 stocks (all Nasdaq listings). The Nasdaq-100 is just the 100 largest non-financial Nasdaq companies. The Nasdaq-100 is what the QQQ ETF tracks — it captures most of the index's movement (top 100 ≈ 95% of total Composite market cap) but excludes the long tail.
Not directly. The most common proxies are the QQQ ETF (Nasdaq-100, very close but not identical) or ONEQ ETF (tracks the full Composite). Index futures (NQ contract) trade on CME, but those are Nasdaq-100 futures, not Composite.
5,048 on March 10, 2000. The Nasdaq then fell 78% to 1,114 by October 2002 — the deepest broad-index drawdown in modern U.S. history. It took until April 2015 (over 15 years) to recover the 2000 high.
Two reasons: (1) software/cloud/AI businesses have produced extraordinary earnings growth, and (2) the Fed kept rates near zero for most of 2010-2021, supporting high-multiple growth stock valuations. Both tailwinds have moderated, but earnings growth in the Mag 7 names continues to drive index returns.
Methodology
Source
Pulled from Stooq / Nasdaq and cached on the EvvyTools server.
Update schedule
Refreshed automatically by our cron whenever the upstream source publishes a new value. Historical values are not revised after publication.
How we compute
Display value is the raw published number, unrounded. Comparison stats use the closest available reference date. We never edit the underlying data.