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Nasdaq looks different 15 years after its peak: then and now


    (Reuters) - Happy anniversary, Nasdaq. It has been 15 years since the dot.com bubble peaked on March 10, 2000, and the Nasdaq composite index hit its lifetime intraday high of 5,132. Back then many of us were watching reality TV shows like "Survivor" and bidding up stocks of companies that had no earnings.

    The index has not reached those heights since, though it briefly surpassed the 5,000 mark on March 2. It has since retreated.

    These days, we are less focused on reality shows and more focused on reality - keeping tabs on dividends and price-earnings ratios, for example.

    A lot has changed - Apple Inc wasn't even on the radar then. Now it's the most highly valued U.S. public company.

    Here's a look at the Nasdaq, then and now.

    Nasdaq value March 2015 March 2000

    $8.01 trillion $6.6 trillion

    Nasdaq P/E March 2015 March 2000

    ratio

    20.75 189.7

    No. of March 2015 1999

    companies

    trading on

    Nasdaq

    2,565 4,715

    Top 10 March 10, 2015 March 10, 2000

    Components by

    market cap

    Apple $724.6 Microsoft

    bln $525.4 bln

    Google $382.3 Cisco $466.4

    bln bln

    Microsoft Intel $401.3

    $347.4 bln bln

    Facebook $218.7 Oracle $232.4

    bln bln

    Amazon $171.9 Sun Micro.

    bln $164.5 bln

    Intel $151.3 Dell $131.5 bln

    bln

    Gilead $147.8 Qualcomm $96.4

    bln bln

    Cisco $147.2 Yahoo $93.7 bln

    bln

    Comcast $125.8 Applied

    bln Materials

    $74.6 bln

    Qualcomm $119.3 JDS Uniphase

    bln $68.9 bln

    No of stocks March 10, 2015 March 10, 2000

    trading at $100

    or higher

    73 210

    No of Nasdaq 2014 1999

    IPOs in

    previous year

    189 397

    Biggest Nasdaq 2014 1999

    IPO

    JD.com Inc Charter Comms.

    $2.05bln $3.7 bln

    Percentage of March 9, 2015 2000

    Nasdaq cos in

    tech industry

    43 pct 64.9 pct

    Dividend 2014 2000

    payouts by

    Nasdaq cos

    $77.98 bln $14.14 bln

    Best Picture 2015 2000

    Oscar winner

    Birdman American Beauty

    Top rated TV March 2-8 2015 1999-2000

    shows

    The Big Bang Survivor

    Theory

    No 1 song: Week of March March 4 - March

    Billboard Top 14 2015 11, 2000

    100

    "Uptown Funk" "Amazed" by

    by Mark Ronson Lonestar

    Data from Nasdaq, Reuters data, Nielsen, Billboard

    (Reporting by Sinead Carew and Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Linda Stern and Leslie Adler)