Nasdaq tops NYSE in listings for 6th straight year as IPO optimism grows
Exchange operator Nasdaq is on track to beat the New York Stock Exchange on listings for the sixth straight year in 2024, as Wall Street looks for a bumper crop of initial public offerings in 2025. Companies raised approximately $22 billion across 160 initial public offerings at Nasdaq in the first 11 months of this year, outpacing the nearly $17 billion in 34 listings for NYSE, according to data provided by Dealogic and Nasdaq. Market watchers took it as another hopeful sign for IPO volume, which has slumped in recent years after the Federal Reserve ramped up interest rates in 2022 to stem surging inflation.