Ticker
A ticker is the short code that identifies a company on the stock market, like AAPL for Apple.
Every company listed on a US exchange gets a unique code of one to five letters. Apple is AAPL, Nike is NKE, Microsoft is MSFT. The code exists because exchanges match millions of orders a second and cannot afford two companies with similar names being confused.
Tickers belong to the listing, not the name. If a company renames itself the ticker often changes too, and a ticker freed up by a delisting can later be handed to somebody else — which is why old links sometimes point at a company that no longer exists.
In Stoxhatch
Search by ticker or company name on Markets. If you only know the name, type that — the search matches both.
Related
- Share — A share is one unit of ownership in a company, so owning a share makes you a part-owner of the business.
- ETF — An ETF is a single tradable share that holds a basket of many companies, so buying one gives you a slice of all of them.
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