stock-symbol-examples

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Table of contents

1.1 The Problem
1.2 Participants
1.3 Real-World Examples
1.4 Existing Practices
1.5 Proposal
1.6 See Also

Stock Symbols

News services, financial sites, blogs are various other websites all refer to stocks on a regular basis. Some mentions are part of a news story while others give advice and review the stock or the company.

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The Problem

Formulate an unambiguous, machine parseable, representation that can be used when stocks are mentioned. This should work with hReview as it's just marking up the recommended example a bit more to make it easier for tools. (Also see # 9 in hReview FAQ (http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview-faq))

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Participants

John Panzer
Sujata Ramchandran

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Real-World Examples

From Yahoo! stocks

 Shares of Tractor Supply (TSCO:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take)

MSN Money

 The 2006 portfolio is up 12%, lead by Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD, news, msgs), 
 CSX (CSX, news, msgs) and Caterpillar (CAT, news, msgs), up 59%, 46% and 39%, respectively

From Motley Fool

 I made my top pick Quality Systems (Nasdaq: QSII)

Wall Street Journal

 Toyota Motor Corp. reported Wednesday a 39% rise in its fourth-quarter

From Google Finance (the ".A" denotes class A shares)

 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Public, NYSE:BRK.A)

From a stock pick blog.

Today's pick is Time Warner.

From a spam email

Golden Apple Oil and Gas, Inc. (GAPJ)
THIS ST OCK IS EXTREMELY UNDERVALUED!
GAPJ - is our NEXT HOT P ICK, which we feel is most undervalued
stock we have ever featured and should out perform all other picks.

From a spam stock tracking site (spamnation.info (http://www.spamnation.info))

 name                       symbol   last date    total
 BackWeb Technologies Ltd   BWEB     10.06.2006	  6

From a Business Week article (http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2007/db20070212_512678.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives)

 The results of each day's session ripple rapidly throughout the world economy. No sector 
 is untouched by energy prices: oil producers and refiners who invest billions to explore, 
 airlines nervous about jet-fuel prices, auto companies who must adjust models rapidly to 
 survive, and retailers like Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) keen to know how deeply its shoppers will 
 be dunned at the gas pump.

From boeing.com (http://boeing.com/companyoffices/financial/)

<code><h2>The Boeing Company</h2>
   <p>As of 4:07 PM ET on Sep 21</p>
   <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="180">
     <caption>Stock Quote</caption>
     <tbody><tr>
   
       <th class="brand bgltgray" scope="row" nowrap="nowrap">Last</th>
       <td class="brand">102.59</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <th class="brand bgltgray" scope="row" nowrap="nowrap">Change</th>
       <td class="brand">+ 1.34</td>
     </tr>
   
     <tr>
       <th class="brand bgltgray" scope="row" nowrap="nowrap">% Change</th>
       <td class="brand"><img src="http://www.shareholder.com/common/images/smup.gif"> 1.32</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <th class="brand bgltgray" scope="row" nowrap="nowrap">Prev. Close</th>
       <td class="brand">101.25</td>
   
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <th class="brand bgltgray" scope="row" nowrap="nowrap">Open</th>
       <td class="brand">102.35</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <th class="brand bgltgray" scope="row" nowrap="nowrap">Volume</th>
   
       <td class="brand">6,614,000</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <th class="brand bgltgray" scope="row" nowrap="nowrap">Exchange</th>
       <td class="brand">NYSE</td>
   </code>

from amazon.com (http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-irhome)

   AMZN  Amazon.com, Inc.
   	
   09/21/07 4:00 p.m. ET
   Price	$91.30
   	
   Change	 Stock is Up 1.65
   		
   % Change	 1.84%

and

   
   <td align="left" nowrap="nowrap">
   	<span class="ccbnStockHeaderBold">AMZN  </span>
   	<span class="ccbnStockHeader">Amazon.com, Inc.</span>
   </td>

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