List of Stock Symbols – Public and Privately Traded
Above the Green Line provides a list of stock symbols for both publicly traded and private companies. Stock symbols are one to four character acronyms that represent publicly traded securities on major exchanges. Penny stock symbols can be a combination of letters and numbers up to five. When a company issues stock to the public, they choose a symbol representing its shares. It usually correlates with the company name or industry it represents. Investors or traders can look up and purchase these symbols in their brokerage accounts.
We share a list of the top companies, with reviews, along with their symbols if they are public. These lists will be updated if a company changes its listing status and when new companies go public. Just click any of the links to review.
How Do You Identify a Stock Symbol?
There are multiple methods for identifying the stock symbol for a company. The easiest way to look up a company’s stock symbol is to do a Google search, type in the company name, and then the words stock symbol like this “xyz stock symbol.”
Investor can easily identify stock symbols by inputting the three or four-letter tickers of the company into the search lookup field of their brokerage account. If traders don’t know the stock symbol, they can usually do a reverse lookup by typing in the company name.