The Market of Quality

NASDAQ^® is home to over 3,200 companies that are changing the face of business and shaping our everyday lives. NASDAQ-listed companies are leaders in every market sector including technology, retail, communications, financial services, transportation, media and biotechnology. Throughout the years, NASDAQ has grown along-side our listed companies and today is the largest U.S. electronic stock exchange with the highest listings standards in the world.

NASDAQ has three market tier designations including the NASDAQ Global Select Market^® — the market with the most rigorous financial and reporting listing standards of any securities market in the world. The sweeping changes of Regulation NMS will give preference to electronic orders. To remain competitive, the manual equity markets are quickly migrating to the electronic market model that NASDAQ developed. While our competitors are working through the implementation of their electronic market structures, NASDAQ is continuously innovating and improving the market structure it created over 35 years ago.

As the regulatory environment continues to drive the equity markets, NASDAQ believes that being listed on the market with the highest listing standards will be an increasingly important designation for investors and issuers. As the market with the highest listings standards for both value and growth stocks, NASDAQ continues to offer the best trading platform for all of its listed companies.