Have you ever thought about how companies actually get their ticker symbols?
Of course, you can make it as easy as Okta and $OKTA (+0.68%) or just take Meta $META (-2.23%) , $UBER (-0.14%) , $SAP (-0.03%) etc. or you can be clever like Porsche with $P911 (-0.41%) or Salesforce with $CRM (+0.69%) and advertise the product with your own ticker.
But then there are also companies that omit a letter from their name for no reason, such as $BAS (-0.12%) , $PEP (+0.05%) or $TSLA (-4.58%) and there are really crazy ones that simply use $AAPL (+1.34%) instead of $APPLE or $BAYN (+0.17%) instead of $BAYER. Steve Jobs can't tell me that there was nothing better than writing Apple with two A's back then.
And of course there are $AFX (+0.2%) and $KO (-0.4%) the ticker has nothing to do with the actual name.
Finally, there is also the faction that simply uses the classic $C (+0.59%) , $O (+1.22%) , $V (-0.14%) or $F (+0.74%) which at least makes sense because it really is much shorter.