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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 2026-09-20, 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, 2010Sep 18, 20264201
BF.BJan 4, 2010Sep 18, 20264203
BRK.AJan 4, 2010Sep 18, 20264203
BRK.BJan 4, 2010Sep 18, 20264203
Rows × columns
4 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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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 1 distinct value (Sep 18, 2026)
bar_count number 4,201 to 4,203 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.

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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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