Have you ever thought about how companies actually get their ticker symbols?

Of course, you can make it as easy as Okta and $OKTA (-2,15 %) or just take Meta $META (-1,55 %) , $UBER (-0,49 %) , $SAP (-0,93 %) etc. or you can be clever like Porsche with $P911 (+1,3 %) or Salesforce with $CRM (-0,16 %) 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 (+0,71 %) , $PEP (+0,29 %) or $TSLA (+1,52 %) and there are really crazy ones that simply use $AAPL (-0,42 %) instead of $APPLE or $BAYN (-0,27 %) 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 %) and $KO (+1,67 %) the ticker has nothing to do with the actual name.

Finally, there is also the faction that simply uses the classic $C (+0,13 %) , $O (+0,92 %) , $V (+0,4 %) or $F (+2,35 %) which at least makes sense because it really is much shorter.