Meanings
- abbreviationacronymengineeringAcronym of Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet.
Whether it's FANG, FAANG, MAMAA, MANAMANA or something else, the idea is to serve as a proxy to track something larger.
[2021 November 17, Kevin Theissen, “What is MAMAA?”, in The Mountain Times, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 20225 more examples
"Bye-bye FAANG, hello MAMAA," the "Mad Money" host said on Thursday's show. "What really matters here, as I always say about MAMAA, is that the secret of their valuation is that they're all in the habit of reinvention. That's why I love them so much."
2021 October 29, Kevin Stankiewicz, quoting Jim Cramer, “'Bye-bye FAANG, hello MAMAA' — Cramer reveals a new acronym after Facebook's name change”, in CNBC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022While two big components of the MAMAA acronym, Apple and Amazon, both saw declines in their stock price on Thursday and Friday, Cramer said investors should focus on the bigger picture.
[2021 October 29, Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, “Not FAANG but MAMAA: Jim Cramer reveals new acronym for the 5 largest tech giants”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2022Nevertheless, a number of tech stocks have returned handsomely this year and outperformed MAMAA's returns. These stocks have benefited from the stay-at-home trend that has driven demand for web-based services like e-commerce, contactless payment and delivery.
2021 December 22, Aniruddha Ganguly, “5 Tech Stocks That Have Crushed MAMAA in 2021”, in Nasdaq, Zacks Investment Research, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2023With MANAMANA we capture an enormous swath of the American technology industry. With the addition of Adobe and Nvidia, this bellwether gains exposure to two segments of the technology that FANG, FAANG, FANAMA and MAMAA miss: creation and publication, and the power behind graphics processing units.
[2021 November 5, Bill Mann, “FAANG is Dead. Long Live MANAMANA”, in The Motley Fool, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2022Instead in 2019, 7 out of the top 8 companies are digital platforms: all the USA GAFAM/MAMAA plus the two Chinese digital platforms.
2022 March 10, Antonio Manganelli, Antonio Nicita, Regulating Digital Markets: The European Approach, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 10
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MAMAA. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MAMAA
“MAMAA.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MAMAA. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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