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Which share-class spellings actually carry history

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from Why Ticker Symbols Break Your Dataset.

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Which share-class spellings actually carry history — 4 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerfirst_bar_labellast_bar_labelbar_count
BF.AJan 4, 2010Aug 21, 20264182
BF.BJan 4, 2010Aug 21, 20264184
BRK.AJan 4, 2010Aug 20, 20264183
BRK.BJan 4, 2010Aug 21, 20264184
Rows × columns
4 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Which share-class spellings actually carry history, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 4 distinct values (BF.A, BF.B, BRK.A…)
first_bar_label text 1 distinct value (Jan 4, 2010)
last_bar_label text 2 distinct values (Aug 20, 2026, Aug 21, 2026)
bar_count number 4,182 to 4,184 count

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    ticker,
    formatDateTime(min(date), '%b %e, %Y') AS first_bar_label,
    formatDateTime(max(date), '%b %e, %Y') AS last_bar_label,
    count()                                AS bar_count
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('BRK.A', 'BRK.B', 'BRK-A', 'BRK-B', 'BRK/A',
                 'BF.A', 'BF.B', 'BF-A', 'BF-B', 'BF/B')
  AND date >= '2010-01-01'
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY ticker

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