Nasdaq 100 Index
The Nasdaq 100 contains 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, with a heavy weight in technology. Chart shows E-mini futures (NQ, front month, volume-based roll).
The ten largest holdings make up 46.9% of the Nasdaq 100, out of 101 holdings in total; the largest sector is Information Technology at 59.4% (as of Oct 8, 2026).
Composition – 50 Largest Holdings
Based on: iShares NASDAQ 100 UCITS ETF (DE) · as of Oct 8, 2026 · 101 holdings
| # | Stock | Ticker | Sector | Country | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  NVIDIA Corporation | NVDA | Information Technology | United States | 8.34% |
| 2 |  Apple Inc. | AAPL | Information Technology | United States | 7.46% |
| 3 |  Microsoft Corporation | MSFT | Information Technology | United States | 5.83% |
| 4 |  Micron Technology Inc. | MU | Information Technology | United States | 4.85% |
| 5 |  Advanced Micro Devices Inc. | AMD | Information Technology | United States | 4.20% |
| 6 |  Amazon.com Inc. | AMZN | Consumer Discretionary | United States | 4.11% |
| 7 |  Meta Platforms Inc Class A | META | Communication Services | United States | 3.22% |
| 8 |  Alphabet Inc. Class A | GOOGL | Communication Services | United States | 3.07% |
| 9 |  Tesla Inc. | TSLA | Consumer Discretionary | United States | 2.96% |
| 10 | Alphabet Inc. Class C | GOOG | Communication Services | United States | 2.86% |
Show holdings 11 to 50
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Class A 2.86%
Broadcom Inc. 2.57%
Intel Corp. 2.33%
Walmart Inc. 2.23%
Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A 1.90%
Cisco Systems Inc. 1.88%
Costco Wholesale Corporation 1.74%
Applied Materials Inc. 1.68%
Lam Research Corporation 1.66%
Palo Alto Networks Inc. 1.35%
Netflix Inc. 1.24%
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. Class A 1.12%
Texas Instruments Incorporated 1.09%
KLA Corporation 1.07%
Marvell Technology Inc. 1.00%
Sandisk Corporation 0.98%
Linde plc 0.92%
Amgen Inc. 0.91%
Shopify Subordinate Voting Class A 0.82%
Analog Devices Inc. 0.82%
QUALCOMM Incorporated 0.77%
T-Mobile US Inc. 0.76%
Gilead Sciences Inc. 0.76%
Seagate Technology Holdings plc 0.73%
PepsiCo Inc. 0.73%- ASML Holding NV 0.69%
Intuitive Surgical Inc. 0.61%
Western Digital Corporation 0.59%
Fortinet Inc. 0.58%
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 0.53%
Booking Holdings Inc. 0.50%
ARM Holdings American Depositary 0.50%- Automatic Data Processing Inc. 0.45%
Starbucks Corporation 0.44%
Constellation Energy Corporation 0.42%
Cadence Design Systems Inc. 0.40%
Adobe Inc. 0.40%
Synopsys Inc. 0.40%
Marriott International Inc. Class A 0.39%
MercadoLibre Inc. 0.39%
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Weighting Since 2019
Measured by iShares NASDAQ 100 (EXXT), a fund tracking this index, the ten largest holdings accounted for 55.2% of the fund's total weight on Sep 30, 2019; on Oct 8, 2026 it was 46.9%. The effective number of holdings shows how many equally weighted positions the actual weights amount to: the more uneven the weights, the lower the number. It rose from 22 to 32 over this period, while the fund most recently held 101 actual positions.
| As of | Positions | Top 10 | Effective holdings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2019 | 103 | 52.7% | 23 |
| Dec 31, 2020 | 102 | 51.3% | 24 |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 101 | 52.4% | 24 |
| Dec 30, 2022 | 101 | 50.9% | 23 |
| Dec 29, 2023 | 101 | 45.5% | 32 |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 101 | 52.2% | 27 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 101 | 49.5% | 30 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 101 | 46.9% | 32 |
Nasdaq 100 Price Chart
The chart shows daily closing prices and is set to the current year by default. The price is up 22.3% year to date and up 23.0% over twelve months. The last recorded close on October 9, 2026 was at 96% of the 52-week range.
Price series from our database since Jul 11, 2024, 565 daily values.
Nasdaq 100 Performance
| Year to date | +22.3% | 1 month | +4.9% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 months | +3.6% | 1 year | +23.0% |
| Calendar year 2025 | +20.2% |
Nasdaq 100 Index Funds and ETFs
ETFs Tracking This Index
- EXXT EU iShares NASDAQ 100 UCITS ETF (DE) · TER 0.30% · 4,500 m cheapest largest
- XNAS EU Xtrackers Nasdaq 100 UCITS ETF 1c
US ETFs on This Index
Set up in the United States; retail investors in the EU usually cannot buy them.
- QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust · expense ratio 0.18%
- QQQM Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF
- TQQQ ProShares UltraPro QQQ (3x leveraged) · expense ratio 0.78%
- SQQQ ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (−3x leveraged) · expense ratio 0.95%
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Fundamental Analysis: Nasdaq 100
Nasdaq 100 and Nasdaq Composite
“The Nasdaq” in market reports can mean two different indices. The Nasdaq Composite started on February 5, 1971 at 100 points and includes almost every stock listed on Nasdaq, more than 2,500 companies, banks and insurers among them. The Nasdaq 100 followed on January 31, 1985 and takes only the 100 largest non-financial companies. Both are weighted by market value, so the largest technology companies dominate each of them, and their daily moves are usually close without being identical. This page covers the Nasdaq 100; the broader index has its own page, the Nasdaq Composite .
How the Index Is Built
Nasdaq, Inc. reviews the membership once a year, in December. Weights follow market capitalization, with caps that limit single companies and the combined weight of the largest members, and the index is rebalanced every quarter. Companies from outside the US qualify if their shares are listed on Nasdaq. On September 11, 2026, the UCITS ETF behind the composition table held 102 positions, and 4.5% of the fund sat in companies from the Netherlands, Ireland, Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil and China.
Concentration
On the same date the ten largest positions made up 47.2% of the fund. In the S&P 500 the figure was 38.3% one day earlier. Nvidia weighed 8.53%, Apple 7.74% and Microsoft 5.90%. The S&P 500 vs. Nasdaq 100 comparison shows how the two indices have moved against each other.
QQQ and UCITS ETFs
Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) , listed since March 1999, is the best-known US ETF on the Nasdaq 100. For the broader Nasdaq Composite, the Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index ETF (ONEQ) shows prices and holdings. Like other US-domiciled funds it publishes no key information document (KID) under the EU’s PRIIPs rules, so brokers in the EU generally do not offer it to private investors. UCITS ETFs on the index appear in the list above.
What the Chart Shows
The data comes from E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures (ticker NQ) at CME Group. Each point is the daily settlement of the most actively traded contract, and returns are chained across roll dates. Interest and expected dividends until expiry keep the futures price a little away from the index level. The newest value belongs to the previous session.
Technical Analysis: Nasdaq 100
Risk Metrics
Correlations (90 Trading Days)
| Instrument | r | −1 … +1 |
|---|---|---|
| S&P 500 Informationstechnologie | +0.96 | |
| Nasdaq Composite | +0.96 | |
| S&P 500 | +0.91 | |
| Chubb Limited | -0.59 | |
| W. R. Berkley Corporation | -0.59 | |
| Republic Services Inc. | -0.58 |
The strongest co-movers are listed at the top, the strongest inverse movers at the bottom. Low or negative correlations can help spread risk more broadly across a portfolio.
