What׳s a name worth? The impact of a likeable stock ticker symbol on firm value

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Financial Markets, November 2016

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Back in 2006, Princeton researchers Adam Alter and Daniel Oppenheimer found that newly listed stocks with easily pronounceable names or tickers outperform clunky, hard-to-say ones in the week after IPO. By a few months out, the effect fades into noise htt…

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What׳s a name worth? The impact of a likeable stock ticker symbol on firm value - ScienceDirect https://t.co/ar1uDaOulH

A Canadian cannibus company was awarded the ticker symbol POT and its share price doubled. Turns out there’s science behind that. Who knew? #whatsinaname https://t.co/xkIl2iOzJK

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