It's not exactly a secret on Wall Street that publicly traded companies sometimes make a statement with their stock symbols. Consider the change made by technology titan Mark Zuckerberg, founder ...

An upper-cased alphabetic abbreviation of a security or cryptocurrency. Also called a "ticker symbol." For example, AAPL is the stock symbol for Apple, Inc., and BTC is the crypto symbol for Bitcoin.

Reviewed by Charlene Rhinehart A stock's ticker symbol is what identifies a company on an exchange, but they are not required to always remain the same. Sometimes, ticker symbols change because a ...