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Nasdaq 100 Annual Returns by Year
Annual returns for the Nasdaq 100 Index starting with the year 1986. Returns calculated using the closing price of the last trading day of the year to the last trading day closing price of the next year.
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Nasdaq Annual Returns
Nasdaq historical annual returns including dividends
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NASDAQ Composite (1971-2025)
Interactive chart of the NASDAQ Composite stock market index since 1971. Historical data is inflation-adjusted using the headline CPI and each data point represents the month-end closing value. The current month is updated on an hourly basis with today's latest value.
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Nasdaq 100 index annual returns 2024 | Statista
The annual returns of the Nasdaq 100 Index from 1986 to 2024. fluctuated significantly throughout the period considered. The Nasdaq 100 index saw its lowest performance in 2008, with a return rate of -41.89 percent, while the largest returns ...
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NASDAQ - Historical Annual Returns (1971-2025)
Dow 100Y Dow - Trump Dow Daily Dow Annual S&P 100Y S&P - Trump S&P Daily S&P Annual S&P YTD NASDAQ 50Y · Interactive chart showing the annual percentage change of the NASDAQ Composite Index back to 1972. Performance is calculated as the % change from the last trading day of each year from the last trading day of the previous year. The full historical dataset is available for download here: NASDAQ - Historical Annual Returns | Data | 1971-2025.
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Nasdaq-100: historical performance from 2007 to 2025
Backtest by Curvo is the best backtesting simulator for European index investors. Discover the historical performance of your portfolio and compare it to others.
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Nasdaq-100 vs S&P 500: historical performance
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Nasdaq 100 Historical Annual Return [38 Years Performance]
September 22, 2023 - The Nasdaq 100 index (NDX) is a technology-focused stock index that generated a 15% – 17% average return over the past 38 years, resulting in a cumulative return of over 15,44,2% including reinvestment of all cash distributions (Dividends).
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Here's the Average Stock Market Return Over the Last 15 Years | Nasdaq
The Dow Jones Industrial Average returned 362% over the last 15 years, which is equivalent to 10.7% annually. At that pace, $50 invested weekly in the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF would be worth $87,000 in 15 years and $488,000 in 30 years.
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Historical Average Returns for Nasdaq 100 Index (QQQ) - Trade That Swing
November 21, 2025 - In this article, you’ll see how the Nasdaq 100 has performed over the last 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, and 25 years. Since 2002, the Nasdaq 100 has outperformed the S&P 500 returns by a significant margin. Average returns can be deceiving because they hide the big up and down years that make up the average.
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Nasdaq Composite Performance Report - Barchart.com
With Weekly Quotes or Monthly Quotes selected, you will see dates that correspond to the past 5 weeks or past 5 months along with the Open, High, Low, Last, Change, Change Percent, and Volume of each period. ... Shows historical Highs and Lows for a number of periods, based on your selected view. High and Low prices and the date of their trades are shown, along with the Percent Change from the start of the current period's High and Low price. When looking at the Periods in the Price Performance table, the 5-Day through 2-Year periods are based on daily data, the 3-Year and 5-Year periods are based on weekly data, and the 10-Year and 20-Year periods are based on monthly data.
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NASDAQ Composite Index (COMP) Stock Price, News, Quotes, & Historic Data | Nasdaq
Discover real-time NASDAQ Composite Index (COMP) share prices, quotes, historical data, news, and Insights for informed trading and investment decisions. Stay ahead with Nasdaq.
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Historical Average Stock Market Returns for S&P 500 (5-year to 150-year averages) - Trade That Swing
November 15, 2025 - The average yearly return of the S&P 500 is 11.959% over the last 50 years, as of the end of October 2025.
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Here's the Average Stock Market Return Over the Last 10 Years | Nasdaq
One way to get exposure to the ... below: ... The S&P 500 returned 235% over the last decade, which is an average of 12.8% annually....
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Nasdaq Composite - Live Performance & Historical Returns
Monitor real-time Nasdaq Composite movements and review historical return trends. Compare indices with interactive charts and in-depth market insights.
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r/investing on Reddit: 30-Year Returns: Nasdaq 3,765% vs S&P 500 1,033%
August 22, 2025 -
I compared the returns over the last 30 years (1995-2025) and the Nasdaq is up about 3,765% while the S&P500 is up about 1,033%. Pretty decent result both of them. I always thought they were maybe 1.5x apart, but clearly not.
For short-term investing, I still think going all in on the Nasdaq is risky considering 2000–2015 stretch was pretty rough. Mixing in the S&P 500 and even some bonds makes sense.
But how about money you won’t touch for 30–40 years, like retirement funds, wouldn’t an all-Nasdaq approach be better?
I saw massive drop during bubble or the global financial crisis, but it always seems to recover and hit new highs. When the market’s booming, it just explodes upward.
And looking ahead, the future seems even more tech-driven(AI, humanoid robots). That makes me think the Nasdaq’s growth potential could be even bigger.
What do you all think?
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You didn’t include dividends. The S&P number is quite off.
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But how about money you won’t touch for 30–40 years, like retirement funds, wouldn’t an all-Nasdaq approach be better? 1950-1989 was a 40 year period that saw international beat the US over every decade (so the overall winner for that span also had to be international). 1990-2025 so far seems to have largely favored the US (we are 5 years short of a 40 year period, but it seems unlikely to swing favor that much). The conclusion I draw from that is that you can't base future winners off any single back test, different windows of the same length may have different results. Then, take a look at factor investing research. Look where in the style box the Nasdaq 100 currently sits (large growth). Long term, that has actually been one of the worst areas to have been invested, over one nearly 80 year span it only beat small growth. It lost to all "blend" and all "value" as well as smaller caps tending to beat large. These can at least partially be explained by systematic risks. Factor investing starting points: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/factor-investing.asp https://www.fidelity.com/bin-public/060_www_fidelity_com/documents/fidelity/fidelity-overview-of-factor-investing.pdf (PDF) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-black-hole-of-investing/ But be aware that factor premiums can take a while to show up: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/comments/1hmbwuw/what_every_longterm_investor_should_know_about/ And looking ahead, the future seems even more tech-driven(AI, humanoid robots). That makes me think the Nasdaq’s growth potential could be even bigger. The world has seen tech revolutions before, but many of them did not turn out to be the best when it came to long term market returns. Tech revolutions: https://www.pwlcapital.com/investing-technological-revolutions/ https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/123 https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/156 (climate change, clean energy related especially) https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/183 https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/185 (Thematic ETFs)
Yahoo! Finance
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Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index (FNCMX) Performance History - Yahoo Finance
Monthly Total Returns · FNCMX · Category · YTD · 21.69% 12.38% 1-Month · -1.46% 5.09% 3-Month · 9.05% 10.28% 1-Year · 22.33% 41.70% 3-Year · 27.81% 22.56% 5-Year · 14.84% 21.98% 10-Year · 17.42% 15.99% Last Bull Market ·
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Here's the Average Stock Market Return Over the Last 20 Years | Nasdaq
The Dow returned 268% over the last two decades, or 6.7% annually. Investors can tap into the index with the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF, though that index fund is unlikely to outperform the S&P 500 over long periods simply because ...
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NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC) Historical Data - Yahoo Finance
^CASE30 EGX 30 Price Return Index · 41,682.40 · +0.19% ^JN0U.JO Top 40 USD Net TRI Index · 7,051.22 · -0.18% U.S. markets open in 4h 3m · US Europe Asia Cryptocurrencies Rates Commodities Currencies · S&P Futures · 6,966.25 · -13.00 · (-0.19%) Dow Futures · 49,022.00 · +24.00 · (+0.05%) Nasdaq Futures · 25,765.50 ·
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A Short History of Nasdaq 100 Returns
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