LUV, CAT, DINO and more: Dallas-Fort Worth companies with offbeat stock symbols

Stock ticker symbols have evolved for a very utilitarian purpose: abbreviate company names so their stock price could be most efficiently transmitted over telegraph lines. To this day, most tickers are simply a mash of letters contained in a company’s name. But some are more interesting, drawing on a company’s history, or using wordplay to represent it on a trading board. The Dallas-Fort Worth area, as it turns out, is home to a number of companies with unique ticker symbols — and the region’s embrace of “Y’all Street” will likely birth even more in the years to come. Here are…