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FAANG == Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google

(First time I heard of it; had to look it up)

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I feel like Netflix is only in there to make the acronym, does it really belong?

It's an odd collection, the others are tech giants yet there's no microsoft and netflix thrown in. Netflix is big but it's not Apple big.

The acronym I've heard is GAFAM: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft.

Judging by http://enwp.org/Largest_companies as of right now, the order should probably be AGMAF (Apple first) instead.

It is a stock thing. All of those companies have well performing stocks.

Microsoft stock is up 80% in the last 2 years.

edit: and they are ahead of google in market cap again. Been going back and forth for the last little while.

FAANG is usually used in the context of investments/stocks. These 5 have consistently been some of the highest growth tech stocks in the past couple of years.

AGAMF - Let's keep it dynamic and take the top 5 tech companies sorted by market cap.

I'm sad nobody has done anything clever by changing G to A (for alphabet). E.g. AAA Companies

Should be AMGAF right now.

This seems hard to keep accurate.

I saw it for the first time a few weeks ago, but with one "A" -- I guess Apple doesn't always count, maybe due to the much lower PE ratio?

Funny, it seems to have been coined in the US but I think I have seen it more in UK news sites.

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