The Performance Stock Market

Increasingly companies expect superior performance from their listing market because they know that a better performing market benefits investors with lower costs, tighter spreads and more certainty of getting the price they expect. On all these measures, NASDAQ®tops the competition and these differences add up to savings for investors.

NASDAQ is Faster

On average, orders in NASDAQ-listed stocks receive faster executions than orders in comparable NYSE-listed stocks. Faster executions reduce investor uncertainty and decrease the likelihood of the market moving away from the investor’s price.

Execution Costs are Lower

On NASDAQ, average effective spreads for NASDAQ-listed companies are better than their NYSE-listed comparables. Lower effective spreads mean lower trading costs for investors.

NASDAQ Investors Get Better Prices

Average quoted spreads for NASDAQ-listed securities are lower than their NYSE equivalents. Tighter quoted spreads benefit both traders and investors accessing liquidity.

Institutional investors prefer the certainty of NASDAQ’s high-speed market model. Buy-side traders are “voting with their order flow” in favor of NASDAQ’s competitive, transparent and accessible market structure.

To view the most current SEC Rule 605 data, visit the NASDAQ Performance Report, a regularly updated snapshot of these key performance benchmarks, which underscore NASDAQ's superior market quality.