Not exact matches
Let's compare it to a
different mutual fund with a similar balance between
stocks and bonds, Vanguard's LifeStrategy Growth Fund (
ticker symbol = VASGX).
Google actually has issued two
different common
stocks, with their respective
tickers being GOOG and GOOGL.
This difference in
tickers is because they represent
different share classes — GOOGL is a Class A Google common
stock and GOOG is a Class C common
stock.
Furthermore, the investor can purchase the fund immediately, because it is a
different security than the
stock and has a
different ticker symbol.
The EFT is a fund, which encompasses many
different companies, that trades under one
ticker symbol like a
stock.
There isn't a single universal way to reference a
stock, there are 4 major identifiers with many
different flavours of exchange
ticker (see xkcd: Standards)
Over the years, whenever I visited my grandpa, he'd be watching BNN and on the bottom of the TV screen there were
ticker symbols for
different stocks scrolling by.