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Translating Ticker Talk
Ticker symbols offer quite a bit of information to savvy investors who know what to look for when they see a ticker. In addition to identifying a company, a ticker may indicate the exchange on which a company is traded, whether that company is delinquent in terms of its Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, or if a company is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. With so much information available in just a few characters, its imperative that investors learn the basics of stock ticker symbols. Here we translate ticker talk into plain English.
What Is a Ticker?
First and foremost, the word ticker refers to a series of letters or numbers identifying a particular security on a particular exchange. Stock tickers are the most familiar types of ticker symbols, though options, futures contracts and other types of securities also have ticker symbols.
A few examples of stock tickers include:
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You may notice that the number of characters differs for these tickers. For example, why does AT
