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

Of course, you can make it as easy as Okta and $OKTA (+0,66%) or just take Meta $META (+3,24%) , $UBER (+1,62%) , $SAP (+2,96%) etc. or you can be clever like Porsche with $P911 (+0,6%) or Salesforce with $CRM (+5,04%) 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 (+2,29%) , $PEP (-0,84%) or $TSLA (+6,49%) and there are really crazy ones that simply use $AAPL (+2,87%) instead of $APPLE or $BAYN (+3,44%) 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 (+0,38%) and $KO (-1,76%) the ticker has nothing to do with the actual name.

Finally, there is also the faction that simply uses the classic $C (+4,51%) , $O (-2,72%) , $V (-1,68%) or $F (-1,21%) which at least makes sense because it really is much shorter.