American Eagle Outfitters trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol AEO.
A stock ticker is the short identifier used to find a company’s shares on an exchange. For American Eagle Outfitters, that identifier is AEO, which reflects the company’s initials and is different from the brand name American Eagle used in stores and advertising.
American Eagle became a publicly traded company in 1994, when its shares began trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The company later moved its listing to the New York Stock Exchange, where AEO is the ticker used today. The exchange and ticker are separate facts: AEO identifies the security, while NYSE identifies the marketplace.
AEO is commonly confused with similarly constructed symbols such as AEP, AEM, or AEF, but those are not American Eagle Outfitters’ NYSE ticker. The company’s corporate headquarters remain in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, even though its shares trade on a national exchange.