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 1.6× larger than Nasdaq by market cap; Intercontinental Exchange trades at the lower P/E (21.2 vs 27.3).
Side by side
| ICE | NDAQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $85.4B | $53.7B |
| Price | $161.92 | $99.47 |
| Today | +0.1% | +0.7% |
| Return YTD | −0.1% | +1.6% |
| Return 1Y | −9.7% | +4.7% |
| P/E | 21.2 | 27.3 |
| P/S | 6.4 | 6.1 |
| P/B | 2.9 | 4.5 |
Data as of 2026-08-27 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
Intercontinental ExchangeICE
The New York Stock Exchange belongs to ICE, and so do global derivatives markets, a large mortgage-technology arm and a fixed-income data business. Each one collects a small amount every time somebody trades or looks something up.
Full ICE profile →NasdaqNDAQ
Running the Nasdaq stock market is now only part of it. Listings, index licensing, analytics and software that banks use to detect financial crime have turned Nasdaq into something closer to a technology and data vendor.
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