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Intercontinental Exchangevs.Nasdaq

ICE vs NDAQ · both in Exchanges & market data, part of the Banks, payments & capital markets value chain: The exchanges, index owners and ratings agencies that run — and price — the markets.

Intercontinental Exchange is about 1.5× larger than Nasdaq by market cap; Intercontinental Exchange trades at the lower P/E (19.5 vs 26.1); year to date, Nasdaq leads (−9.3% vs −16.5%).

Side by side

ICENDAQ
Market cap$76.5B$49.8B
Price$137.59$88.89
Today+1.7%+0.9%
Return YTD−16.5%−9.3%
Return 1Y−25.6%−2.9%
P/E19.526.1
P/S5.86.0
P/B2.64.1

Data as of 2026-07-13 · updates daily after U.S. close

The two companies

Intercontinental ExchangeICE

NYSE · USA

Owner of the New York Stock Exchange plus global derivatives markets and a large mortgage-technology and data business. Toll-taker on trading and financial data.

Exchange operatorNYSEData & mortgage tech
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NasdaqNDAQ

NASDAQ · USA

Operator of the Nasdaq stock market, increasingly a financial-technology and data company selling listing, index, analytics and anti-financial-crime software.

Exchange operatorIndex & dataFintech software
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