What's in a symbol?
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Starting tomorrow, Sprint Nextel will take over the stock symbol "S" from Sears, which is now a private company. The newly merged telecom now joins a select group of venerable -- and some not so venerable -- corporations identified on trading tickers by a single letter, among them:
A - Agilent Technologies
C - Citigroup
F - Ford
G - Gillette
K - Kellogg
Q - Qwest
T - AT&T
X - U.S. Steel
With acquisitions and business failures, however, other letters are now available for companies in need of an updated Wall Street image. Those (and the former firms) include:
H - Harcourt General
I - First Interstate
J - Epoch Holdings
M - M-Corp
P - Phillips Petroleum
U - US Airways
W - Westvaco
Z - Foot Locker
Interested parties should address inquiries to your listing exchange.
-- S.P.
