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Nasdaq, Inc. (NDAQ) is a global financial services and technology company headquartered in New York City. With a market cap of $50.6 billion, it is a diversified enterprise that owns and operates multiple stock exchanges, including the flagship Nasdaq Stock Market, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Boston Stock Exchange, as well as seven European exchanges.
NDAQ is scheduled to report its Q3 earnings before the market opens on Tuesday, Oct. 21. Ahead of the event, analysts expect the company to report a profit of $0.82 per share, up 10.8% from a profit of $0.74 per share in the same quarter last year. The company has surpassed Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in each of the past four quarters, which is impressive.