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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Stock Symbols for Fun & Profit
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:18:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.231836.16151@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- Some stock symbols have "cute" or "fun" references to the company.
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- You know, where the company had a lot of fun picking the symbol?
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- For example:
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- BUD - Anheuser Busch (Budweiser)
- BEN - Franklin Resources
- BID - Sothebys (large international auctioneers)
- FLY - Airlease
- LUV - Southwest Airlines ("Love" was in their motto)
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- There are quite a few such symbols which are Not part of a company's
- name or initials. So I didn't count cute parts of names such as
- ONE (BancOne Corp), RVEE (Holiday RV), IV (Mark IV Indstries),
- OAT (Quaker Oats) or CAKE (Cheesecake).
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- Here are a few more. Please feel free to add to this list.
-
- (and if that means studying the stock tables, and perhaps
- learning a smidgen more about what's out there, that's OK too.)
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- SUIT - Men's Wear
- BSBL - Scoreboard
- PNUT - Jimbo Jumbo
- GAS - NICOR Inc
- OIL - Triton Energy
- FON - Sprint
- CQ - Comsat (Ask any ham radio operator)
- SHIP - Regency Cruises
- BYTE - Compucom
- VCR - Go-Video
- LEO - Dreyfuss Strategic Municpals (Leo the Lion is Dreyfuss' symbol)
- LENS - Concord Camera
- FOTO - Seattle Film
- XRAY - GendX
- DOSE - Choice Drug
- BLUD - Imucor
- SCAN - Alliance Image
- OJ - Orange Co
- SODA - A&W Brands (Root Beer & other soft drinks)
- BUS - Greyhound
- TRUK - Builders Transport
- PAWN - First Cash
- PAPA - Back Bay Restaurants
- CHIK - Golden Poultry
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- And since these are "fun" symbols,
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- FUN - Cedar Fair (Amusement Park)
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-