The stock ticker symbol for Ralph Lauren Corporation is RL.
Ralph Lauren Corporation’s Class A common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RL. The two-letter ticker is an abbreviation associated with Ralph Lauren, not with the company’s Polo label or a shortened version of “Ralph Lauren Corporation.”
The company became publicly traded in 1997, after Ralph Lauren had expanded from a necktie business into a broad lifestyle company. Its activities include apparel, footwear and accessories, home products, fragrances, and hospitality.
A frequent mix-up is choosing POL because Polo is one of the company’s best-known brands. Polo is a Ralph Lauren label and product identity, while RL identifies the publicly traded corporation. RAL and PLR are not the company’s NYSE ticker symbols.