Nasdaq New Additions

Nasdaq announced five new additions to the Nasdaq-100 (NDX) that become effective June 22, 2026 as part of its quarterly rebalance:

Ticker	Company	Sector
Astera Labs	ALAB	AI / Semiconductors
CoreWeave	CRWV	AI Cloud Infrastructure
Nebius Group	NBIS	AI Cloud Services
Rocket Lab	RKLB	Space & Aerospace
Teradyne	TER	Semiconductor Equipment

These companies are replacing:

• Charter Communications
• Cognizant
• Insmed
• Verisk Analytics
• Zscaler

Notable additions

• CoreWeave (CRWV) and Astera Labs (ALAB) are major AI-related beneficiaries.
• Rocket Lab (RKLB) becomes one of the first pure-play space companies in the Nasdaq-100.
• Nebius (NBIS) has been one of the strongest-performing AI infrastructure stocks in 2026.

Potential future addition

Recently public SpaceX is expected to join the Nasdaq-100 soon under Nasdaq's new fast-entry rules, although it was not included in this June rebalance.

For growth investors, CRWV, RKLB, ALAB, and NBIS are the Nasdaq-100 additions attracting the most attention due to AI and space-sector exposure.