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T – AT&T<\/p>\nStock ticker symbols have evolved for a very utilitarian purpose: abbreviate company names so their stock price could be most efficiently transmitted over telegraph lines.<\/p>\n
To this day, most tickers are simply a mash of letters contained in a company\u2019s name. But some are more interesting, drawing on a company\u2019s history, or using wordplay to represent it on a trading board.<\/p>\n
The Dallas-Fort Worth area, as it turns out, is home to a number of companies with unique ticker symbols \u2014 and the region\u2019s embrace of \u201cY\u2019all Street\u201d will likely birth even more in the years to come. Here are 10 of the most noteworthy: <\/p>\n
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T – AT&T<\/p>\n
AT&T first listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1901, making it the 12th-longest tenured member of the exchange. Its iconic \u201cT\u201d ticker traces back to AT&T predecessor, American Bell Telephone Company, which used the symbol on the Boston Stock Exchange<\/a> in the late 1800s.<\/p>\n Business Briefing<\/p>\n By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n When ownership of American Bell was transferred to its subsidiary American Telephone & Telegraph Company, the resulting AT&T traded as ATT, until the new company adopted the \u201cT\u201d ticker once more in 1930. <\/p>\n When AT&T Corp., merged with Southwestern Bell, for a few days the joined company traded under \u201cSBC,\u201d until resuming under \u201cT\u201d on Dec. 1, 2005.<\/p>\n This is a 1913 TDMN file photo of inventor Alexander Graham Bell.<\/p>\n J – Jacobs Solutions<\/p>\n Founded in 1948, Jacobs Solutions is a Fortune 500 company based in Dallas that does everything from engineering to construction to maintenance. While the history of its ticker symbol \u201cJ\u201d isn\u2019t as well-documented as AT&T\u2019s, it\u2019s notable that North Texas has two single-letter tickers. (After all, there can only be 26).<\/p>\n Texas hosts around 1 in 10 U.S. public companies<\/a>, and D-FW is responsible for about 30% of Texas\u2019 economy. According to a back-of-the-napkin calculation, that means North Texas likely owns about 3% of the U.S.\u2019s public companies, but approximately 7%, of potential single-letter stock tickers. Now that\u2019s punching above its weight.<\/p>\n LUV – Southwest<\/p>\n While it still uses the red, blue and yellow heart logo, Southwest used to lean into the whole \u201clove\u201d theme even more. The Dallas-based airline was founded in 1971, when love was hip, so early branding used the concept to set it apart from other carriers. <\/p>\n Tickets came from \u201clove machines,\u201d snacks were \u201clove bites,\u201d and drinks were \u201clove potions.\u201d Unrelated, though, is Southwest\u2019s headquarters and hub at Love Field, \u2015 named for Moss L. Love, a U.S. Army pilot who died in 1913.<\/p>\n The logo for Southwest Airlines appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n Richard Drew \/ AP<\/p>\n CAT – Caterpillar<\/p>\n Caterpillar is the manufacturing giant behind construction, mining and other industrial equipment used across the globe. The origin of this ticker is obvious, but it\u2019s still the \u2018CAT\u2019s meow,\u2019 if you ask us. <\/p>\n DOGZ – Dogness International<\/p>\n Technically a Chinese company, Dogness International\u2019s U.S. headquarters is in Plano, so this one counts. And how could it not with a cute ticker like DOGZ? <\/p>\n Dogness, of course, makes pet products. With CAT and DOGZ, D-FW just needs \u2018GRBL\u2019 or \u2018FISH\u2019 for those who want an easier (pet) stock to take care of in their portfolios.<\/p>\n DINO – HF Sinclair<\/p>\n The name of Dallas oil and gas giant HF Sinclair is a combination of three companies, Holly, Frontier, and Sinclair, that have merged over the years. The resulting company adopted the iconic \u201cdino\u201d branding of Sinclair, the result of a marketing campaign in 1930<\/a>. <\/p>\n The advertisements promoted Sinclair lubricants as made of oil from 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. The imagery became so popular that Sinclair trademarked its green apatosaurus in 1932, and ran with the branding to this day. <\/p>\n DINO floats have appeared at the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade, DINO animatronics at the World Fair, and homages to the logo have appeared in movies like Cars and We\u2019re Back.<\/p>\n Spectators watch from an apartment window as the Sinclair’s Dino balloon passes by during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)<\/p>\n Yuki Iwamura \/ AP<\/p>\n EAT – Brinker International <\/p>\n You may not have heard of Brinker International but you\u2019ve surely heard of its crown jewels: Chili\u2019s. The casual restaurant is based in Dallas and franchises 1,672 restaurants under the names Chili\u2019s Grill & Bar and Maggiano\u2019s Little Italy worldwide. Let\u2019s EAT, indeed.<\/p>\n ACDC – ProFrac Holding Corp<\/p>\n ProFrac Holding Corp, a Dallas energy company, adopted the \u201cACDC\u201d ticker symbol in 2022 several months after its IPO. Executive chairman Matt Wilks said in a press release<\/a> that the ticker was meant to symbolize ProFrac\u2019s leadership in electric hydraulic fracturing, AKA electric fracking, which uses electric pumps and motors instead of diesel-powered one. <\/p>\n FYBR – Frontier Communications<\/p>\n No, Frontier isn\u2019t a cereal brand. They don\u2019t deal in that kind of fiber. The Dallas-based company is a fiber internet provider. This clever ticker symbol may not be long for this world, with a planned merger of Verizon and Frontier in regulatory limbo since late 2024. <\/p>\n If the merger is successful, Verizon could take up the \u201cFYBR\u201d ticker to anoint itself the stock market\u2019s King of Fiber. 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