By Tyler Betlow ’24

FANG Stocks: FANG is an acronym for four high performing technology stocks in 2017. It was created by one of CNBC’s stock analysts Jim Cramer. The fang stocks are; Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX), and Google (GOOGL; now known as Alphabet Inc).

FAAMG Stocks: Another acronym stock analysts use to refer to the highest performing technology stocks is FAAMG. FAAMG stands for Facebook (FB), Amazon (AZMN), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Alphabet (Google; GOOG). FAAMG was morphed out of the original acronym, FANG, which was coined by CNBC’s Jim Cramer. FANG did not include Apple and Microsoft, but had Netflix. The new variation of the biggest tech companies does not include Netflix due to its relative small market capitalization, compared to the other five in FAAMG.

FAANG Stocks: FAANG is an acronym almost identical to FAAMG, just has Netflix swapped out for Microsoft. Again, it was derived from CNBC’s Jim Cramer original acronym for the best performing technology stocks. FAANG stands for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google.

Now you know what the FANG stocks are!