About the Symbol Lookup Utility
FAQs
About the Symbol Lookup Utility
The Symbol Lookup utility helps you find stock, mutual fund, money market fund, or index ticker symbols by name.
FAQs
Use Symbol Lookup to Find a Ticker Symbol
Find a Ticker Symbol on the Internet
Find the Stock Class for Your Stock
I am Unable to Use the Preferred Stock Symbol I Found in the Newspaper
Find a Quote on a New "When Issued" Stock
Find a New Fund Symbol
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Use Symbol Lookup to Find a Ticker Symbol
Anywhere that you're prompted to enter a ticker symbol, you'll find a link to Symbol Lookup nearby.
To find a symbol:
1. Click the Symbol Lookup link.
2. Enter a company name or partial ticker symbol in the text box provided.
3. Using the drop-down menu, select and click the appropriate exchange. Choose from:
- US Exchanges
- Canadian Exchanges
- U.K. Exchanges
4. Click the Lookup button.
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Find a Ticker Symbol on the Internet
There are many reasons AOL members sometimes have trouble finding a particular ticker symbol. Sometimes you have an incorrect spelling unrecognizable by the Symbol Lookup utility. Often times, the company in question is not publicly traded and doesn't have a ticker symbol.
Try the following options to locate the ticker symbol:
- Try a search by company name with our partner Hoover's. Navigate to http://www.hoovers.com/. If the company in question is a privately held firm, or a subsidiary of a larger company, this information will be provided in Hoover's search results.
- Try AOL® Search. AOL Search performs a much broader search of the Internet and you may be able to locate the company website or another helpful resource.
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Find the Stock Class for Your Stock
Stocks with different classes use the stock symbol followed by a period and then the class. For example, BRK.A is for Berkshire Hathaway Class A stock.
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I am Unable to Use the Preferred Stock Symbol I Found in the Newspaper
The format that data providers (including the newspaper, other Websites, your broker, etc.) vary widely. AOL uses thepopular ticker symbol format provided by our quote data partner, Comstock. The Comstock format for preferred stocks uses the regular stock symbol followed by a dash and then the appropriate letter, or no letter if there is only one type of preferred stock issued. For example, GM-G stands for General Motors Series G Preferred stock.
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Find a Quote on a New "When Issued" Stock
To obtain the price on a stock that is trading on a "When Issued" basis (WI) on other system symbols, type the stock symbol, followed by a pound sign (#), for example, NCR#.
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Find a New Fund Symbol
When a fund is just starting, it may ask for an assigned symbol from NASDAQ. To actually be listed on the exchange, however, the fund must meet special reporting requirements. For example, until the fund has grown to sufficient size, NASDAQ will not report on it. In cases like this, AOL will not have quotes for the fund.
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