What is the ticker symbol for Amazon.com?

The ticker symbol for Amazon.com is AMZN. It is the shorthand used to identify Amazon.com, Inc.’s common stock on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Amazon began as an online bookstore founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and opened its virtual store in July 1995. The company went public on May 15, 1997. Its initial public offering price was $18 per share, although later stock splits mean that price is often shown as $0.075 on a split-adjusted basis.

AMZN is easy to confuse with symbols belonging to other major technology companies. GOOG and GOOGL identify Alphabet share classes, MSFT identifies Microsoft, and AAPL identifies Apple. Amazon’s business has also expanded far beyond retail, including Amazon Web Services, advertising, streaming entertainment, devices, logistics, and subscriptions; the ticker still represents the publicly traded parent company.