What Are FAANG Stocks?In finance, “FAANG” is an acronym that refers to the stocks of five prominent American technology companies: Meta (FB) (formerly known as Facebook), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX); and Alphabet (GOOG) (formerly known as Google). The term was popularized by Jim Cramer, the television host of CNBC's Mad Money, in 2013, who praised these companies for being “totally dominant in their markets." Originally, the term "FANG" was used, with Apple—the second “A”...