Even better, why don’t we just get rid of the unwieldy acronyms altogether and simply refer to them as “major tech companies”? It’s clearer and avoids the constant reshuffling every time the market shifts.

People have a strange attachment to catchy mnemonics that Jim Cramer was using in 2014.

Can’t we just stick with FANG?

Sure, the acronym doesn’t mean anything anymore, but at least everyone knows what it means.

The N stands for Microsoft

There’s no other option besides MANGA. Anything else is f-ing lame

GANMA

Nicrosoft

NadellaSoft?

We can still call Alphabet Google, just like everyone calls X Twitter. Clunky rebrands don't have to be accepted by everyone.

Edit: Personally I'm in favor of sorting by present market cap, so it's MANGAM.

Is this a reverse sort?

Google never rebranded. It's still Google. They just had all these unrelated moonshots like Verily and Waymo that didn't make sense to keep pretending were a part of Google.

Isn't the Google CEO also Alphabet CEO now because they didn't manage to make them 2 actual independent companies?

I wouldn't be surprised if the change was tax related.