Nasdaq Composite ^IXIC

Index · United States · home metro · compare against everything else

14,020 tracked days · 1971-02-05 to 2026-09-16 · refreshed daily

Latest
25,978
2026-09-16
1-year
+16.3%
from 22,334
5-year
+71.1%
from 15,182 in 2021
Annualised
+10.5%
+6.4% real · a year since 1971
2026-09-16 — 25,978 · +25878% from 1971
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Record high 27,094 on 2026-06-02; lowest close 54.87 on 1974-10-03. Since 1971 the level is up 260× in points; in 2026 money it is 31.2×, or +6.4% a year after inflation.

About this series

Closing levels, one point per trading day. Yahoo Finance chart API. Index levels are price returns in local currency, so they exclude dividends and are not adjusted for exchange rates: a chart of the Nikkei against the S&P compares two different things in two different currencies. They are quoted nominally by default, with a Real toggle that deflates by United States CPI (World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, US series extended to 1913 from the BLS via FRED) and expresses the whole history in 2026 money. Inflation data is annual, so the deflator is interpolated between mid-year points, and the real view begins in 1913, where that CPI record starts. None of this is investment advice; all of it is geography with a time axis.