(Reuters) - Happy anniversary, Nasdaq. It has been 15 years since the dot.com bubble peaked on March 10, 2000, and the Nasdaq composite index (IXIC) 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 (O:AAPL) 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 (NASDAQ:MSFT)
bln $525.4 bln
Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) $382.3 Cisco $466.4
bln bln
Microsoft Intel $401.3
$347.4 bln bln
Facebook $218.7 Oracle $232.4
bln bln
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) $171.9 Sun Micro.
bln $164.5 bln
Intel $151.3 Dell $131.5 bln
bln
Gilead $147.8 Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) $96.4
bln bln
Cisco $147.2 Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) $93.7 bln
bln
Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) $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