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NDAQ Relative to the S&P 500

NDAQ Relative to the Sector

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Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NASD:NDAQ) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of July 7 and a Sell Date of November 26 has resulted in a geometric average return of 11.46% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 20 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 16 of those periods. This is a very good rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 20 years by an average of 4.98% per year.

The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Financial sector, which runs from November 22 to April 13. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Financial Sector Seasonal Chart.

Founded in 1971, Nasdaq is primarily known for its equity exchange, but in addition to its market-services business (about 35% of sales), the company sells and distributes market data as well as offers Nasdaq-branded indexes to asset managers and investors through its information-services segment (30%). Nasdaq’s corporate-services business (20%) offers listing services and related investor relations products to publicly traded companies and through the company’s market technology group (15%), Nasdaq facilitates the exchange operations of other exchanges throughout the world and provides financial compliance services.

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Stocks mentioned in this post: NDAQ