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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Stock Symbol quiz
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:17:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.051723.24792@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- Well, things were slow so --- here's an easy quiz.
-
- Several companies on the New York or American Stock Exchange have
- one-letter symbols.
-
- I have listed them symbols below and your job, should you choose to
- accept it, is to identify the company corresponding to the symbol.
-
- To make it even easier, I've listed the corrsponding companies,
- along with several other companies just to make it interesting.
- But each of the companies with a one-letter stock symbol is listed.
-
- I don't always use the exact company name or exact financial page
- listing, but if you know the name of the company you will have no
- trouble matching them up.
-
- For some one-letter symbols I couldn't find any company (e.g., M, Q)
- and one ( O ) is listed to Odetics, Inc, but I could find only
- an O.A and O.B (Odetics Class A/B) and not an O. "L" is reserved
- for Loblaw Companies, which is not listed on either the NYSE or ASE
- (but has been listed on the Toronto and other exchanges.) Since I'm
- not working with an electronic database, I could have overlooked
- some, and welcome correction if I did.
-
- Anyway the 1-letter symbols are all those except L, M, O and Q.
- Please don't post answers, but please feel free to point out any
- obvious errors. Answers are in any stock guide or WSJ etc listings,
- or I'll mail answers to anyone really curious.
-
- The companies, matching and others, are:
-
- Alcan
- Alcoa Aluminum
- Alleghany Corp.
- AT&T
- Attwoods plc
- Bank of America
- Barnes Group
- Bass
- Bethlehem Steel
- Boston Edison
- Chase Manhattan Bank
- Chemical Bank
- Consolidated Edison
- Chrysler Corporation
- Dominion Resources
- Disney (Walt)
- Dupont
- Exxon
- Federal Express
- Fiat
- First Interstate Bancorp
- Ford Motor Company
- Fredericks of Hollywood
- General Motors
- Gerber Products
- Georgia Pacific
- Gillette
- Hasbro
- Helm Resources
- Home Depot
- Inco, Ltd.
- Jackpot Enterprises
- James River
- Johnson & Johnson
- Kellogg
- K-Mart
- Korea Fund
- Kroger
- Pennzoil
- Philadelphia Electric
- Philip Morris
- Phillips Petroleum
- Raytheon Company
- Reynolds Metals
- Rite Aid
- Ryder Systems
- Safeway
- Scott Paper
- Sears, Roebuck & Company
- Tenneco
- Texaco
- Toro Company
- Transco Energy
- United Air Lines
- Upjohn Corp.
- US Air
- US Steel
- Vivra Inc
- Vornado
- Warner Lambert
- Westinghouse
- Westvaco
- Woolworth
- Xerox
- Zenith Electric
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-