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

Of course, you can make it as easy as Okta and $OKTA (+1,89%) or just take Meta $META (+0,46%) , $UBER (+0,78%) , $SAP (-0,39%) etc. or you can be clever like Porsche with $P911 (-0,93%) or Salesforce with $CRM (+0,31%) 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 (-0,01%) , $PEP (+0,72%) or $TSLA (+0,52%) and there are really crazy ones that simply use $AAPL (+0,87%) instead of $APPLE or $BAYN (-0,67%) 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 (+2,06%) and $KO (+0,89%) the ticker has nothing to do with the actual name.

Finally, there is also the faction that simply uses the classic $C (+0,89%) , $O (+0,71%) , $V (+0,58%) or $F (+0,71%) which at least makes sense because it really is much shorter.