MSCIvs.Nasdaq
MSCI 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.
Nasdaq is about 1.3× larger than MSCI by market cap; year to date, Nasdaq leads (+1.6% vs −1.7%).
Side by side
| MSCI | NDAQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $40.6B | $53.7B |
| Price | $564.22 | $99.47 |
| Today | +0.0% | +0.7% |
| Return YTD | −1.7% | +1.6% |
| Return 1Y | −1.7% | +4.7% |
| P/E | 29.9 | 27.3 |
| P/S | 12.2 | 6.1 |
| P/B | 107.4 | 4.5 |
Data as of 2026-08-27 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
MSCIMSCI
ETFs and index funds track MSCI's global equity benchmarks and pay to do so. ESG, climate and portfolio-analytics data has grown quickly on top of that, sold much like a subscription.
Full MSCI 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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