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ticker

ticker

19 5.1
A short code of letters that shows a company's shares on the stock market
  • noun
  • /ˈtɪkər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : símbolo bursátil
  • This is the options chain for Dave and Buster's ticker symbol PLAY.
  • ticker symbol
  • identify the ticker
  • company ticker

Well, right now he's actually shorting ticker symbol SLG.

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Examples

  • Common price response for 11 stocks (identified by ticker symbols) from the London Stock Exchange.

    Academic text (2005)
  • I'll give you one example from a stock with the ticker symbol EFZ.

    Blog text (15)
  • So it's a closed end fund call with the ticker symbol Cuba, Cuba.

  • Or you could go to FFND, which is the ticker of our active ETF.

  • I looked at the ticker today: the market capitalization of Citicorp is $17 billion.

    Blog text (8)
  • For those who don't know, MCD to this day is still the stock ticker symbol for McDonald's.

  • The bank's shares are traded on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board under the ticker BLHK.

    Blog text (14)
  • In fact, Interactive Brokers (ticker: IBKR) stock gets very little respect.

    Blog text (4)
  • The merged entity was renamed Tingo Group Incorporated, and the ticker changed from MICT to TIO.

  • The ticker symbol for Apple is AAPL, making it easy for investors to find its stock on the exchange.

Synonyms

stock symbol
vsticker
  • Specialized
1 4.2

A short set of letters that shows which company is listed on a stock exchange

identifies any traded security or stock rather than only companies

Compounds

ticker tape
  • Archaic
1 8.7

A long narrow strip of paper that shows stock prices printed by a machine

stock ticker
  • Specialized
1 4.3

A machine or screen that shows live stock prices and financial data

ticker tape
  • Specialized
5.3

A horizontal electronic display that shows live news or stock prices

Surface Forms

ticker singular
tickers plural

Morphology

ticker = tick (opaque) = tick + er

Although formed from tick + -er historically, the sense 'stock identification code' is a lexical extension (from ticker tape usage) that is not derivable from 'tick' by an average learner.

Etymology

Ticker for a stock code comes from the short letters that were printed on old 'ticker' machines and on 'ticker tape'. So a company's ticker is the short set of letters used to name its stock.