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I’ll try to keep my promise of not talking about Greeks. I mentioned that I wasn’t going to talk about math in this article. Lowe expanded at an average rate of about 22 new stores per year by doing some quick math.

Now Lowe’s operates 2,197 home improvement and hardware stores in North America and celebrated its 100th-anniversary last year. When he died in 1940, it was inherited by his daughter Ruth Buchan.Īpparently, she didn’t want to operate a hardware store, so she sold it to his brother James Lowe that same year. Lucius Smith Lowe opened it in North Carolina. LOW (Lowe’s) first store in 1921 was named North Wilkesboro Hardware. That’s why their corporate headquarters are in Cambridge, Massachusetts. HUBS (Hubspot) was founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, two graduate students at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Robinhood is legit but has its controversies, which we wrote about previously. HOOD ( Robinhood) is known for its commission-free investing, founded by two physics students from Stanford University: Baiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev. MET (Metlife) and ALL (Allstate) sell insurance.įIVE (Five Below) sells kids’ accessories, some of which are below five dollars.Īnd SEE (Sealed Air Corp) sells bubble wraps. Not sure why they both go by initials instead of first names. Leggett developed a new type of bedspring and formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, C.B. LEG (Leggett & Platt) makes high-end adjustable beds so that you can rest your leg. LUNG (Pulmonx) makes medical devices to treat chronic lung disease.

Whoever came up with that LAND one must be a genius. Seem like many real estate investment trusts like to come up with word-like ticker symbols.įor example, PEAK (Healthpeak Properties), CUBE (Cubesmart), CONE (CyrusOne), COLD (Americold Realty), WELL (Welltower), and LAND (Gladstone Land Corp).

Each Snowflake is unique and “has exactly the right resources to fit the unique needs of each set of your users.” Nice marketing.

Most of the founding team members like to ski in the snow.

Snowflakes are “born in the cloud.” They make cloud databases, and their tagline is “Inside the Data Cloud.” Ha-ha.

Oh, I See.Īccording to their blog, there are three reasons why they name their company is named Snowflake. NET (Cloudflare) makes Inter NET applications secure and fast. OPEN (Opendoor) provides online real estate sales. If your company needs a task to be done, TASK can find someone for you. TASK (TaskUs Inc) provides outsourced digital services. While IT (Gartner Inc) provides objective insights to executives, PATH (Uipath Inc) provides artificial intelligence into robots. While FANG (Diamondback Energy) is active in energy exploration, PEG (Public Service Entertainment Group) debates energy policy. It is the ProShares ETF that shorts the Dow index.Īnother ticker word that you might be more familiar with is SPY, the S&P 500 ETF. Speaking Of AnimalsĬAT and DOG are animals, but these have nothing to do with pets. SKY (Skyline Corp) is not in the airline industry but the mobile homes business.ĭISH (DISH Network) is not involved with gourmet dish meals or dinnerware, but satellite dishes that bring shows like “Animal Planet” into your homes. LOVE (Lovesac) is not a dating service but sells bean bag chairs. KEY (Ke圜orp) doesn’t provide keys to your lockbox but offers financial services.īOX (Box Inc) doesn’t make boxes but document management software. However:ĭECK (Deckers) doesn’t build decks but shoes.

Let’s start with the easy ones because their symbol tells us precisely what the companies do, making them easy to remember.ĬAR (Avis) provides rental cars. Kick back and enjoy the light read over a glass of wine, and you might learn a few interesting tidbits about some companies you’ve never heard of. Okay, no more talks about math or the Greeks this time. Have you ever wondered about stock tickers that are words? We found 39.