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Stock Symbol

Definition: Stock Symbol

Stock Symbol

Noun

1. The letters used to identify listed companies on the securities exchanges where they are traded.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stock Symbol

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stock symbol

319

preferred stock symbol

6

penny stock symbol

4

nyse stock symbol

4

exchange new stock symbol york

3

stock symbol national association of securities dealer automated quotation system

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Stock symbol

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A stock symbol is a shorthand code, usually 1 to 5 uppercase letters (though it may occasionally include a dot), which represents a company with respect to a stock exchange such as the NYSE or Nasdaq.

For example:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stock symbol."

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Anagrams: Stock Symbol

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-k-l-m-o-o-s-s-t-y"

-3 letters: blossomy, cytosols, slyboots.

-4 letters: blossom, cytosol, oocysts, symbols, tomboys.

-5 letters: blocks, blocky, blooms, bloomy, boosts, bosoms, bosomy, cloots, combos, coombs, cosmos, costly, cymols, mostly, mysost, octyls, oocyst, osmols, ostomy, scoots, smocks, smolts, sokols, sotols, stocks, stocky, stooks, stools, symbol, tomboy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Stock Symbol


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 74 6F 63 6B      53 79 6D 62 6F 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01110100 01101111 01100011 01101011 00100000 01010011 01111001 01101101 01100010 01101111 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#116 &#111 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#83 &#121 &#109 &#98 &#111 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0074 006F 0063 006B      0053 0079 006D 0062 006F 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53868169772539179688178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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