The Nasdaq stock exchange has seen significant fluctuations in its listed companies over recent years. As of December 2024, the exchange boasted a total of ***** listed companies, with ***** domestic and *** international firms. This diverse mix of listings reflects the Nasdaq's global appeal and its role as a major player in the world of stock exchanges.

The number of domestic companies listed on the Nasdaq and on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has seen some fluctuations since 2018. As of the end of 2023, the NYSE had a total of ***** listed domestic and international companies, while the figure for the Nasdaq was much higher, standing at *****. Despite this, the NYSE has a higher market capitalization than the Nasdaq. What are the top listed companies? The NYSE has been a home for stable and long-lasting firms, also known as “blue-chip” companies. For example, Berkshire Hathaway, established in 1839, is the largest company traded on the NYSE. On the other hand, the Nasdaq has been known for listing major tech companies. For instance, Apple is the largest company listed on the Nasdaq. As of 2024, both companies were among the biggest companies in the world in terms of market capitalization. Which stock exchange has the most companies worldwide? Although the NYSE and the Nasdaq are the world’s largest two stock market operators by market capitalization, the Japan Exchange Group (JPX) is the biggest stock exchange in the world based on the number of companies. The JPX was created in 2013 through the merger of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange and is also one of the largest stock exchanges in the world based on total market capitalization.

List of companies in the NASDAQ exchanges.

Data and documentation are available on NASDAQ's official webpage. Data is updated regularly on the FTP site.

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Number of Listed Company: OMX Copenhagen Stock Exchange data was reported at 119.000 Unit in Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 120.000 Unit for Feb 2025. Number of Listed Company: OMX Copenhagen Stock Exchange data is updated monthly, averaging 174.000 Unit from Feb 2000 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 302 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 261.000 Unit in Jun 2000 and a record low of 119.000 Unit in Mar 2025. Number of Listed Company: OMX Copenhagen Stock Exchange data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Nasdaq Copenhagen. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Denmark – Table DK.Z002: Nasdaq Copenhagen: Number of Listed Companies.

Based on the total number of companies listed, the Japan Exchange Group was the largest stock exchange operator in the world as of Janaury 2025, with 3,968 companies listed. Of these, only six were foreign companies, with the remaining being domestic. The stock exchange with the highest number of international companies at this time was the U.S. Nasdaq, with 871. However, despite only having the seventh-highest number of companies, the New York Stock Exchange has the highest market capitalization of any stock exchange operator.

As of Janaury 2025, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq - the two largest stock exchange operators in the United States - held a combined market capitalization for domestic listed companies of over ** trillion U.S. dollars. Both markets were almost evenly sized at this point in time - at approximately ** and ** trillion U.S. dollars, respectively. However, the Nasdaq has grown much quicker than the NYSE since January 2018, when their respective domestic market caps were ** and ** trillion U.S. dollars. Much of this can be attributed to the success of information technology stocks during the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as the Nasdaq is the traditional venue for companies operating in the tech sector.

This dataset contains a detailed information on companies listed in the NASDAQ exchanges. The dataset also includes the market category as well as the financial status of the listed companies.

Comprehensive dataset of 140 companies listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, including detailed financial information, market data, and corporate filings. This dataset provides real-time updates on trading metrics, company profiles, financial statements, regulatory filings, and market performance indicators. Updated every 30 minutes, it covers key data points such as market capitalization, trading volume, stock prices, company fundamentals, and regulatory compliance information for all listed securities on Nasdaq Helsinki.

Comprehensive dataset of 27 companies listed on Nasdaq, including detailed financial information, market data, and corporate filings. This dataset provides real-time updates on trading metrics, company profiles, financial statements, regulatory filings, and market performance indicators. Updated every 30 minutes, it covers key data points such as market capitalization, trading volume, stock prices, company fundamentals, and regulatory compliance information for all listed securities on Nasdaq.

United States US: Number of Listed Domestic Companies: Total data was reported at 4,336.000 Unit in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 4,331.000 Unit for 2016. United States US: Number of Listed Domestic Companies: Total data is updated yearly, averaging 5,930.000 Unit from Dec 1980 (Median) to 2017, with 38 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8,090.000 Unit in 1996 and a record low of 4,102.000 Unit in 2012. United States US: Number of Listed Domestic Companies: Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.World Bank.WDI: Financial Sector. Listed domestic companies, including foreign companies which are exclusively listed, are those which have shares listed on an exchange at the end of the year. Investment funds, unit trusts, and companies whose only business goal is to hold shares of other listed companies, such as holding companies and investment companies, regardless of their legal status, are excluded. A company with several classes of shares is counted once. Only companies admitted to listing on the exchange are included.; ; World Federation of Exchanges database.; Sum; Stock market data were previously sourced from Standard & Poor's until they discontinued their 'Global Stock Markets Factbook' and database in April 2013. Time series have been replaced in December 2015 with data from the World Federation of Exchanges and may differ from the previous S&P definitions and methodology.

NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation) is the world's second largest automated and electronic stock exchange and securities market in the United States, the first being the New York Stock Exchange, with more than 8,000 companies and corporations. It has more trading volume per hour than any other stock exchange in the world. More than 7,000 small and mid-cap stocks are traded on the NASDAQ. It is characterized by comprising high-tech companies in electronics, computers, telecommunications, biotechnology, and many others.

This dataset was created as a result of an automatic extraction of open & public data available in nasdaq.com, using web scraping techniques. The only purpose of creating it was for academic reasons

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Context

Predicting the stock market is one of the most commonly performed projects when someone is learning about ML and Data Science. After all, who wouldn't want to delegate the task of picking stocks to a model and reap the rewards for themselves? However, one of the most difficult and tedious steps to predict what stocks to invest in is actually gathering the data to use. There are so many options and it is important to get sufficient information for each. But, what if you can skip this step and just download a dataset that has all that information easily available for you? Look no further as this is the answer to this problem.

Content

This dataset contains information of 4447 stocks traded under Nasdaq across various exchanges. There is a file that contains information for all 4447 stocks but also has several null fields, which is why I labeled it as full_financial_stocks_raw.csv --it has minimal modifications to the values inside the rows. The second file, dividend_stocks_only.csv, is still a raw-ish style dataset but it only contains stocks that pay out dividends to its shareholders. Interestingly, it seems dividend-paying stocks have more information about them, which explains why this file has significantly fewer rows with null values.

Update: In the next 24 hours, I will be uploading an optimized, feature-engineered dataset that has fewer columns overall and fewer rows with null values. This dataset is intended to be a fully cleaned option to directly feed into ML/DL models.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the sources where I obtained my data, which are the FTP Nasdaq Trader website and the Yahoo Finance API.

Inspiration

Analyzing the stock market is one of the most intriguing endeavors I could think of as the ways it can be influenced are so broad and distinct from one another. A news article can influence how investors view a particular company, social media can directly fluctuate a company's share price, and there are numerous calculations and formulas that can show what stocks are worth investing in.

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Hong Kong Number of Listed Securities: NASDAQ Stocks data was reported at 6.000 Unit in Oct 2018. This stayed constant from the previous number of 6.000 Unit for Sep 2018. Hong Kong Number of Listed Securities: NASDAQ Stocks data is updated monthly, averaging 7.000 Unit from Dec 2004 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 167 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 7.000 Unit in May 2015 and a record low of 6.000 Unit in Oct 2018. Hong Kong Number of Listed Securities: NASDAQ Stocks data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Hong Kong SAR – Table HK.Z005: Main Board: Number of Listed Companies and Securities.