Of 60 answers

The most named companies in the study, and S&P 500 financials, with how many of their 60 AI answers named them.

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AI visibility statementFinance AI Visibility Study 2026Issued October 14, 2026
Account holder
Statement period
September 23 to 26, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
220 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Closing balance

Named in

19of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Nasdaq

AI assistants name Nasdaq in 31.7% of their answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector at 1.7%. Its overall score is 40 out of 100, ranking 220th of 2,219 overall and 73rd of 574 in its sector. The Nasdaq website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Nasdaq by name. AI assistants named it in 19 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 20th of 574 in its sector. The typical financial technology and data company is named in 1.7% of answers.

Overall score
40Overall score
  • Visibility38
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality93
  • AI readiness21
Summary of account
Named by AI in
31.7%
19 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
54.3%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
73 of 574
by overall score, where the typical financial technology and data company scores 29

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

Nasdaq came up on 6 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01Best stock exchanges in the US for institutional investors4/4
  2. 02Ways financial institutions leverage market data for strategic decisions0/4
  3. 03Common reasons order execution fails on financial technology platforms0/4
  4. 04Differences between traditional stock exchanges and electronic trading platforms3/4
  5. 05Typical costs associated with enterprise-level governance and compliance technology0/4
  6. 06How do asset managers use risk and compliance software in daily operations?0/4
  7. 07Are global index solutions a good investment for portfolio diversification?0/4
  8. 08Where can I access advanced financial crime management technology for banks?3/4
  9. 09Options for secure cloud-based trading infrastructure in financial markets0/4
  10. 10Is it worth listing a company on a US-based electronic trading venue?3/4
  11. 11How are fees for data feeds from US stock exchanges structured?3/4
  12. 12Most reliable financial technology providers for anti-money laundering solutions3/4
  13. 13Alternatives to listing on a US stock exchange for raising capital0/4
  14. 14Why might real-time market data feeds experience latency issues?0/4
  15. 15Market data solutions vs comprehensive index solutions for asset managers0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 6/15Claude: 2/15Perplexity: 6/15Gemini: 5/15All assistants: 19/60
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. Across the study, on 50% of the questions where a company is named, only one AI assistant names it.

Transaction detailSection 02

What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

Gemininamed the company

“Is it worth listing a company on a US-based electronic trading venue?”

Listing a company on a US-based electronic trading venue, such as Nasdaq or the NYSE, can offer significant advantages but also comes with notable drawbacks.

Advantages:

Access to Capital: The US securities market is one of the largest sources of capital globally, allowing companies to raise substantial funds for growth, acquisitions, or other corporate purposes. Listing can also improve the timeliness and cost of capital for future offerings.

Increased Visibility and Reputation: Going public in the US can significantly enhance a company's public awareness, prestige, and …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

PayeesSection 03

Where the mentions went

The companies these answers named, and how the mentions were split between this company and its peers.

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Nasdaq
    54.3%
  2. New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
    37.1%
  3. CME Group
    2.9%
  4. Cboe Global Markets
    2.9%
  5. OTC Markets Group
    2.9%
  6. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
    0.0%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

  1. 01
    nyse.com
    19
  2. 02
    lseg.com
    14
  3. 03
    en.wikipedia.org
    12
  4. 04
    cboe.com
    10
  5. 05
    nasdaq.com (its own website)
    9
  6. 06
    sec.gov
    9
  7. 07
    getmonetizely.com
    7
  8. 08
    tradersmagazine.com
    7
  9. 09
    gartner.com
    7
  10. 10
    sofi.com
    6

Nasdaq is in the study as a market data company.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Perplexity
6/15
OpenAI
6/15
Gemini
5/15
Claude
2/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Nasdaq compares with all 2,219 companies

Every tower is a company in the study, taller for a higher overall score and lit where AI assistants named it. Its own group stays lit. Hover a tower to see it, and click to open it.

What makes up the score

Each part is scored out of 100.

Visibility
38

How often AI assistants name the company, and how that compares with its peers

Citations
1

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
50

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
93

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Against its sectorSection 07

Compared with financial technology and data companies

574 companies in this sector. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
40
Ranks 73 of 574. Typical company: 29
Named in answers
31.7%
Ranks 20 of 574. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
21
Ranks 401 of 574. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with market data companies

37 companies in this category. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
40
Ranks 9 of 37. Typical company: 36
Named in answers
31.7%
Ranks 10 of 37. Typical company: 15.0%
AI readiness
21
Ranks 20 of 37. Typical company: 29
AI agentsSection 09

Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and pay through, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Can an AI agent check out here?

Not by itself. Nasdaq publishes none of the agent payment protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the website like a person.

Agent payment protocols
  • x402Not present
  • MPPNot present
  • AP2Not present
  • ACPNot present
  • UCPNot present
Interfaces for AI agents
  • MCP Server CardNot present
  • A2A Agent CardNot present
  • Agent SkillsNot present
  • API CatalogNot present
  • llms.txtNot present
  • WebMCPCould not check
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 86.1%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 87.9%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 1.5%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 4.3%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 6.2%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 31.0%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 92.7%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 2.3%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.3%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 1.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 6.3%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 5.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.2%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.8%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.2%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 1.0%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 0.0%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.2%

Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 3, 2026 · www.nasdaq.com · 2,200 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

AI readinessSection 10

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks

Discoverability

  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.1%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 79.4%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 42.5%

Content Accessibility

  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 7.4%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 28.1%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 97.3%

Bot Access Control

  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 11.5%

API / Auth / MCP

  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 1.1%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 5.2%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 4.6%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.2%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 0.3%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.1%
AI crawlersSection 11

What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 86% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI

  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly

AI search

  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly

Answering questions

  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • Claude-Userpartly
  • Perplexity-Userpartly
  • DuckAssistBotpartly
  • MistralAI-Userpartly

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

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