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Nasdaq 100 annual returns
The Nasdaq 100 holds the hundred largest non financial companies listed on the Nasdaq exchange. Read that definition again, because it does something people don't expect. It's an exchange index, not a technology index. Membership depends on where a company chose to list its shares, not on what the company actually does.
This page is the year by year record for the last twelve years, sitting next to the S&P 500 and the Dow so you can see the difference rather than take my word for it. The headline is the spread: +53.81% in 2023 and -32.97% in 2022, back to back. I built it because plenty of people treat the Nasdaq 100 as a slightly spicier S&P 500, and the numbers say it's a considerably more amplified version of it, in both directions.
Two things to flag before you read the table. The three 2026 figures carry slightly different as of dates, from 28 to 30 July, because each index page updates separately, so don't read anything into small differences between them. And the twelve years covered here are not a long history by any standard, they're a window, and a fairly generous one. It all comes from one source, linked at the bottom, and it's a public page you can open in a second and compare against what's written here.
The Nasdaq 100's best year in the last twelve was 2023 at +53.81% and its worst was 2022 at -32.97%, a range of nearly 87 percentage points across two consecutive years. Over the same period the S&P 500's extremes were +31.49% and -18.11%. The Nasdaq 100 is not simply a technology version of the S&P 500, it is a considerably higher beta version of it, delivering both larger gains and larger losses in almost every year that matters.
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