The 30+ Best/Funniest Tickers on Wall Street

Although stock trading and general investing are serious issues, which can affect companies’ futures, and make people win or loose lots of money can within days (or even minutes or seconds), there’s certainly some fun in it.

The fun may sometimes come from the mere thrill of investing, others from the fast pace of the stock market, others, simply from tickers.

In this article, we will take a look at some of the best, funniest or most clever ticker symbols that this writes has come across.

The Pun-Intended And Some Onomatopoeiae

-     GRR - Asia Tigers Fund, Inc. (The) GRR

-     COW - iPath DJ-UBS Livestock TR Sub-Idx ETN COW

-     BOOM - Dynamic Materials Corporation BOOM

-     BAM - Brookfield Asset Management Inc BAM

-     YUM - Yum! Brands, Inc. YUM

-     WOOF - VCA Antech, Inc. WOOF – An animal healthcare company

-     MOO - Market Vectors-Agribusiness ETF MOO – An ETF that reflects the performance of the Market Vectors® Global Agribusiness Index

-     HEMP - Hemp Inc HEMP

-     ZEUS - Olympic Steel, Inc. ZEUS

-     BEN - Franklin Resources, Inc. BEN

-     CAR - Avis Budget Group, Inc. CAR – A car rental company

-     ZZ - Sealy Corporation ZZ – A bedding products company

The Simply-Funny Ones

-     COOL - Majesco Entertainment Company COOL

-     FUN - Cedar Fair, L.P. FUN

-     TIE - Titanium Metals Corporation TIE

-     DOG - ProShares Short Dow30 ETF DOG

-     FISH - Marlin Midstream Partners LP FISH

-     POT - Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. POT – Interestingly enough, also a Pot-related play ;)

-     FROG - Frogads Inc FROG

-     NICE - NICE-Systems Limited NICE

-     EAT - Brinker International, Inc. EAT – A restaurant operator

-     FEO (Ugly, in Spanish) - First Trust/Aberdeen Emerging Opportunity Fund FEO

-     ROBO (A Steal/Robbery, in Spanish) - Exchange Traded Concepts Trust ROBO

The Abbreviations

-     TY (Thank You) - Tri Continental Corporation TY

-     AFK (Away From Keyboard) - Market Vectors-Africa Index ETF AFK

-     NP (No Problem) - Neenah Paper, Inc. NP

-     OMG (Oh My God!) - OM Group, Inc. OMG

Some Dirty or Suggestive Ones (And A Little Dark Humor)

-     BCH - Banco De Chile BCH

-     COKE - Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated COKE

In Other Exchanges

-     SCAM - The Scottish American Investment Co. plc SCAM

-     CON - Continental AG CON

-     POO - PROGEO Holding AG POO